Monthly Archives: February 2008

A Stew With a Past and a Future

Bigos, the sauerkraut stew that many consider the national dish of Poland, is a very forgiving meal that can be made in numerous ways.

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Off the Menu

Charlie Trotter will open a restaurant on Madison Avenue, L’Entrecôte will close after 38 years, and more food news.

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Fancy Some Soldiers for Your Eggs, Mate?

John Haney’s memoir captures what it was like to grow up Cockney in postwar London on a diet of winkles, whelks and prawns.

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Food Stuff

Unusual varieties of dried fruit, artisanal cheeses on the East End of Long Island and bamboo bags for getting your bread home from the bakery.

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FISH COMFORTABLE WITH BOTH WATERS

LAURENCE Fishburne is coming back to Broadway. The Booth The atre. Limited engagement. Tickets on sale now. “Thurgood,” written by George Stevens Jr., is about the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, who received his degree at Howard…

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S.O.S: SHIP ON SALE

HAPPY Feb. 26 Day, everybody! Lest we forget, this is the day New York got its first subway line (1870) and our first red and green traffic light (1930), not to mention when the Saturn 1B rocket first took flight … Continue reading

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Racket in the Kitchen, Ruckus in the Crib

With the right planning and a little practice, there is a way to cook dinner without waking the baby sleeping in the next room.

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Coast to Coast, Restaurants That Count

Searching America to rank 10 of the country’s most acclaimed, ambitious, promising or intriguing new restaurants.

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The Legions of Frozen Yogurt Push East

New York has become the second major battleground, after California, for the restyled, fluffed up, fruit-topped new wave of frozen yogurt.

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Coast to Coast, Restaurants That Count

Searching America to rank 10 of the country’s most acclaimed, ambitious, promising or intriguing new restaurants.

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Racket in the Kitchen, Ruckus in the Crib

With the right planning and a little practice, there is a way to cook dinner without waking the baby sleeping in the next room.

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Dining Briefs

Meals at the Metropolitan Opera and cheap, filling and delicious options at World of Taste in the Bronx.

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