The delicious marathon with my food-loving friend from Canada continues. Here are the things I made her taste during days 3 and 4 of our New York City eating tour. Are we missing anything?
Banana pudding. Pineapple upside-down cake. Fried chicken and waffles. Collard greens. Mac and cheese. Spicy lamb cumin noodles. Day 2 of the New York City food tour with my food-obsessed friend from Canada tasted pretty good. Here's our feast in pictures, with coordinates...
If you had a week in New York, wanted to eat as much as you could and were willing to leave your food fate up to a cab driver, your first day of feasting might look something like this...
7 days + 1 hungry Canadian pastry chef + 1 food-obsessed New York cabbie + 2 skinny wallets + 5 boroughs of spectacular restaurants = a New York taxi driver's food tour.
Pascuale Freni started driving a taxi in the 1970s, when the Bronx was burning, when the mafia owned the curbs in the Garment District, when “we were used to body counts” that drove a million people from New York City.
When I was doing taxi adventures in Buenos Aires, lots of cabbies told me "it's not a meal without un buen bife." Though a lot of taxistas insisted that the best steaks came from their own barbecues, they also led me to some of Buenos Aires' finest cheap parrillas. Here are my five favorites.
