Vote for Your Favorite Blogs by 1/31

January 22, 2010
Vote for Your Favorite Blogs by 1/31 Taxi Gourmet is a finalist in the 2010 Bloggies! If you dig this blog, visit  2010.bloggies.com & vote under ‘Best Latin American blog.’ The Bloggies are the equivalent of the oscars on the internet, and 17 food blogs (including Serious Eats, Smitten Kitchen and Chocolate and Zucchini) are among the finalists. It’s an amazing honor
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Three Hungry New Yorkers Take on Tandoor

January 21, 2010
Three Hungry New Yorkers Take on Tandoor Saturday afternoon, fearless foragers Salem P. and Jenny M. met me at Tandoor, where we were looking forward to tasting the chicken tikka masala and onion naan that Kamal Aftab always gets when he goes - and to seeing whether the cabbie's recommended restaurant was actually worth a food pilgrimage...
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Training Day in Pictures

January 21, 2010
Training Day in Pictures After spending an hour on the subway with the creatures of the night, I finally made it to the Team Systems garage in Long Island City, where the evening drivers were ending their adventures as the day hacks began theirs. I could hear the dispatcher shouting out the names of the cabbies from where
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Training Day

January 17, 2010
Training Day If I had to search for 10 1/2 hours that were more hilarious, exhausting and vertigo-inducing than my first shift behind the wheel of New York yellow cab, I don't think I could find them...
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Into the Driver’s Seat: On the Eve of the First Shift

January 16, 2010
Into the Driver’s Seat: On the Eve of the First Shift I'm trekking over to Team Systems Taxi Fleet at 4.30am tomorrow with two goals in mind: 1) To watch the sun rise in New York City from behind the wheel of a yellow cab 2) To prevent my passengers, my cab, and myself from running into any serious calamities...
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Into the Driver’s Seat…at Team Systems Taxi Fleet

January 14, 2010
Into the Driver’s Seat…at Team Systems Taxi Fleet Baby, you can drive my car. That's what I was hoping the owner of the taxi garage on Bergen St. was going to tell me this morning when I bounced over there on Huseyin Kanal's recommendation. The cabbie assured me that it was a good garage, that it was clean, that the owners were cool...
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