Now here’s a great example of how New York is so diverse. We were seeking out another list item and were brought to Ninth Avenue International Foods. It’s a Greek-owned food store. The cashier is of Hispanic descent, they sell everything from Israeli cous cous to Italian meats, and everybody was gathered around a TV [...]

Not to be confused with another Prime Meats in Carroll Gardens (another list stop), Michael’s Prime Meats is a butcher shop in the far reaches of Brooklyn.  It really took me forever to get out there.  And the whole time all I could think was “What if they’re out of the chicken burger?” I shouldn’t [...]

If you’ve ever heard the term, “A kick in the kishke,” you know it’s probably painful regardless of if you know what the word kishke actually means.  And if you’ve ever actually been kicked in the kishkes, I am sorry for you. I hate to make these connections, but kishke means guts.  And that’s basically [...]

Some might call it cheating, but I call it strategy. I didn’t actually purchase this list item at Mast Brothers Chocolate Factory in Williamsburg, but rather at Bklyn Larder, where I picked up the pickled cauliflower. Now just to set the record straight, I did go to Mast Brothers a few weeks earlier and they [...]

I went in to the very homey cheese and snack shop Bklyn Larder a few weeks ago in search of another list item: pickled cauliflower. The girl told me that the cauliflower was in the process of being pickled, but they had pickled carrots which I was assured tasted the same as the cauliflower since [...]