Ben & Jerry’s Bugle Bombshell by Jon Defreest
I just couldn’t resist.
Welcome to the Global Kitchen
My friend Adam is beginning a new series of dining escapades he’s calling Global Kitchen. The idea is this: he’s identified 50 different cuisines that you can (hopefully) find in New York, and his computer will spit out which one we’ll find on our plates each week.
Since I oft find myself looking for content, especially given the fact that the downtime I used to have has shrunk considerably and my posts have lessened, I’ll dedicate myself to writing about our culinary journey through the city over the next year-plus.
First up: Mexican! Thank you, Adam’s computer, for not choosing something odd the first week that would scare me off from diving into this. I’ve always been a picky eater, but must thank my study abroad experience in Spain for maturing my palate a bit so that it doesn’t instantly reject anything green, new or with a weird texture. Even so, I can’t overcome every picky habit I’ve grown into over the years, and starting the Global Kitchen with something like…I don’t know, Bangladeshi food? would have made me hesitant.
We’ll be dining at Zaragoza as our first stop this Wednesday evening. The restaurant’s website is a bit…undeveloped (and the URL is www.mexicanrestaurantnewyork.com, so weird)…but Yelpers love it, and I love Yelp.
¡Buen provecho!
This article is awesome if only for this:
“We like to think that people enjoy Peeps,” said Collin Long, a spokesman for Mr. Dent. “The best part is, you can take them home, put toothpicks in them and stick them in the microwave. That makes them blow up, and they look like they are sword fighting.”
Ignoring the insult to Seinfeld, this ad is awesome.
Wait, the character who made Seinfeld famous?
(via gq.)
Yup, I think advertising figured this one out a long time ago:
Boxes with a cartoon character earned higher tastiness ratings from the kids.
