A food-wise New Yorker and his family lead the way to what may be the best rum cake (and rice and peas) in Manhattan.
No, I'm not going to write another top 10 list. But this was too rich a year not to dish out some highlights. So in the name of taking stock and in the spirit of microblogging, here are 2010's funniest, tastiest, scariest, most humiliating and most enlightening moments from taxicabs on two continents.
I've lost track of how many random taxis I've gotten into over the past three going on four years, but every time every time I start wondering if cabbies really are the best source of restaurant recommendations, I meet drivers like Alam, who lead me to places I'd have a hard time finding myself.
New construction on E. 1st St. is becoming a serious threat to the survival of one of the best budget curry houses in New York City. But if you're interested in saving this East Village haven of cheap sustenance, there is something you can do...
New York is pissed off about Christmas. I don't care how beautiful the snowflake on 57th St. is, how ornate the 5th Avenue window displays are or how many lights bejewel every street from Park Avenue to Queens Blvd. - my passengers are angrier than I've ever seen them.
It was going to take something exceptional to shake my food-loving Canadian friend Carolynn and me out of our gluttonous stupor after 4 days of pigging out in New York City. We found it at Mile End.
