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Many thanks for the monkey bread information and recipe. I've never heard of that before, and I can easily imagine that being a great hit with kids. Big kids, too. Thanks again.

What is monkey bread? Do you have a recipe you're willing to share? We're planning a bake sale as part of a fundraiser in my synagogue this summer, so I've been avidly reading this thread for ideas. Many thanks.

I usually have four cups of coffee a day, in the morning. By afternoon time, I have no taste for coffee, and I guess anyway it's already done its job. I won't even consider quitting. It's not just that I need it to wake up. I like coffee too much to stop drinking it. It doesn't bother my sleep (unless I have a cup in the evening, which I don't), doesn't upset my stomache, and if I drank decaffeinated tea it would make me pee just as much! (It's the liquid, not the caffeine.) I quit cigarettes, I gave up carbonated beverages -- the coffee stays!!

There was a Hanukkah recipe for parsnip/carrot latkes that I made into a kugle, and I thought it was great. The flavors really do work well together. I think sweet potato can be difficult in a kugel because it tends to get so mushy, but maybe try it with the parsnips instead of the carrots and see how that works out. The original Moosewood cookbook had a recipe for cauliflower something (I can't remember, but it was a "kugel quality" kind of thing) with a grated potato crust, I used to make that a lot for Pesach. If it has a crust, is it still kugel?

This is one of the most informative threads I've seen on eGullet -- and that's saying something! Many thanks. (I'm getting pretty good with chopsticks, but am definitely a novice.)

Currently eating some chocolate covered halvah. Mmmm, mmmm, good. And then some!

Sullivan St. Bakery = Pizza, different but great Amy's Bread = ? Mitchell London = ? ← Amy's Bread is breads, cakes, cookies, pastires. Lovely delicious stuff, not to be underestimated. But it's not a restaurant. There are a few seats in the back, and they make great grilled cheese sandwiches. You might want to buy some things to take back home with you. Mitchell London on 9th Ave. is a great breakfast place. People say they have the best pancakes in the world, but I am not a fan of pancakes so I can't say anything about that. Great omelettes with fresh eggs (I'm always amazed how different they taste than supermarket eggs), fresh herbs, very good home fries. That's my kind of breakfast. You might want to try them the morning after Phantom. I second the suggestion for 44 & X. Good food, very comfortable place, but while I like it I have to add I don't know that it's particularly special in any way. But it is very good. (on 44th St. and 10th Ave.) Everyone raves about Azuri Cafe, but I have to say the one time I ate there (about five years ago) was so awful that I've never returned. I wasn't crazy about the felafel (huge felafel balls, which turned me off even before I started eating, but that's my own craziness), they were good but I didn't think they were great, but they gave me the worst gas pains I have ever had, ever. I mean like I was doubled over. So I am not objective about Azuri. Wherever you go, enjoy New York.

As Pan mentioned, if you're on 48th and 8th that's the west side, not the east side. If you want to try smaller, neighborhood places to sample what they do best, rather than sit down and eat a full meal, I'd suggest: Sullivan St. Bakery (47th St. between 10th & 11th -- great, and very different, pizza); Amy's Bread (9th Av. and 47th St.); Mitchell London (9th Av. between 35th & 36th, I think); Meskarim (Ethiopian food; I think it's on 46th St., corner of 10th Av.) Walk around a bit.

Barbara's Oat Squares (the regular flavor, not the vanilla flavored, yuk) with a banana sliced in and 1% milk. The best.

Late lunch at City Bakery. I just love that place. Roasted butternut squash salad, definitely the best in the world. Their roasted zuchinni salad is nothing to scoff at either. Tomorrow is their official hot chocolate day, maybe I'll go back.

Shabbat Shalom Aidan. It's nice to be reading your posts again. T'hiyeh bari.

Same here, if it's doable, take all my megs. I don't own a digital camera anyway. I lived in Jerusalem for almost 20 years, and I have to say, I'm reading your post and in many spots I feel like you're describing a foreign country I have yet to visit! Wonderful!

I am still working on my usual breakfast of fruit and yogurt. It's always good, but this morning the apple happens to be the most delicious apple ever. (I also have a banana and an orange.) It's a Fuji apple (my favorites), and I could tell as I was cutting it up that it was a perfect one. There's something about the sound it makes as I slice through the apple that sort of "lets on" about the apple's stage of ripeness, and I knew this one was a winner.

The honey-tahini combination is great even without yoghurt. Just mix the two together and spread on a cracker. Mmmmm. It's good stuff.

Brunch right now: Leftover couscous with stir-fried veggies that had tons of fresh ginger in it. Mmmm. Much better than yesterday, even.

I'm interested to see what they do with it. While it can potentially be interesting from a culinary point of view, it can be fascinating (and even somewhat explosive) from a historical and religious point of view. What did Jesus eat? Well, for one thing, I bet he kept kosher.

Well, you can ask the moderators nicely to change the title of the thread, if you wish. They've been known to comply with a request or two. My main point (yes, I have one) is this: there are a lot of non-pros on this site. While most of us might not have much to add to list, I'm willing to bet we have a whole lot to learn from it. That's one of the main points of eGullet, learning. I think the title of your thread is sort of a statement to just not bother clicking unless you're a pro. It's a bit off-putting. (Although I recognize that might be an opinion of one, but still, one is one, y'know?) So that'll be all from me. Thank you. edit: typo

I live in a building with a doorman and concierge, but they don't escort the deliverymen up to the apartment that ordered food (too many apartments in the building), they call up to the apt., and if the tenant says yes, then they just send the deliveryman up with the food. So there are always menus, and I don't really mind them even though I very rarely order out. I figure these guys -- and the restaurants -- also have to earn a living. It's limited though. If the delivery is on the 10th floor, they can distribute menus on the 10th floor. If the concierge sees them on another floor over the closed-circuit security system, they get a warning. If it happens a second time, the building will no longer allow that restaurant to deliver, and they inform the tenants not to order from that particular restaurant. This system works pretty well. The only time I got annoyed was when (several years ago) I opened my door one morning to find a whole pile of menus sitting there. I guess the deliveryman just got tired and dumped the whole bunch. Now that is truly littering in front of my door.

Nope. No one here but us amateurs. Are we allowed to read this thread, or is that off limits too?

Cakewalk: I think your Grandmothers store was between "163rd & Westchester Avenue located near the "Spooner Theatre" on Southern Blvd. Tiffany Street runs into Westchester Ave not Southern Blvd. Pretty sure she had a outside service window that served Lime Rickey's, Egg Creams, Charlotte Russe's. It used to be a busy Shopping Street. I lived in the area until 1955 and may have a photo of me taken inside the store when I was 13 years old. Irwin ← Small world, made smaller by the world-wide-web. If you have that photo, and it shows any significant part of the candy store, I would love to see it. I have a photo of my grandmother standing in front of the store, with the number on the building ("863") perfectly legible. I had copies made and gave them to my relatives who all grew up in the area and remember the store well, they just loved the photo. But the photo isn't wide enough to see if there's a service window.

That's brilliant. My grandmother owned a candy store on Southern Blvd. I was just a kid when she sold it, but I remember it. And I remember the egg creams. No eggs, no cream. Ever. Foxx's U-bet syrup for sure, no one would even dream of using anything else. I think the pressure of the seltzer coming out of the fountain had a lot to do with the "head" on the eggcream. Oh my, they were so good. But the condensed milk, now that's a great idea. ← I grew up on Southern Blvd. Between 163rd Street/Hunts Point up to Freeman Street was familiar with all the Candy Stores. My Uncle owned the "Associated Supermarket" on Westchester Ave and Simpson Street it was the first 24 Hour Super Market in NYC. Where was your Grandparents Store. Irwin ← Just my grandmother's store, she bought it I guess around 1930, after my grandfather died (probably with his life insurance), and had it until about 1960-61. Anyway, it was at 863 Southern Blvd. near Tiffany Street. The building it was in no longer exists. I remember that my first ambition in life was to be a candy-store lady, like my Bubby. I should have followed through!

That's brilliant. My grandmother owned a candy store on Southern Blvd. I was just a kid when she sold it, but I remember it. And I remember the egg creams. No eggs, no cream. Ever. Foxx's U-bet syrup for sure, no one would even dream of using anything else. I think the pressure of the seltzer coming out of the fountain had a lot to do with the "head" on the eggcream. Oh my, they were so good. But the condensed milk, now that's a great idea.

I stopped drinking soda a while ago, but I used to love flat soda -- as long as it was cold. (Warm flat soda is something else altogether, yuk.) So I would never put the cap back on soda bottles, which annoyed many, many people.

Also, now that I think of it, Chelsea Market is not too far from the Javits Center either (depending on your time frame, of course.) It's not more than a 15-20 minute walk. It's on 9th Ave. and 15th Street, but there's also a 10th Ave. entrance. Not more than a mile from Javits, heading south. And that offers quite a few decent eating establishments to you.

That's cheating! Face to face. I'm hearing impaired and I rely on looking at the person I'm talking to.