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Were you in or around Chinatown?

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While theses strawberries were very nice and tasty, it cost me $14 to make a pint of sorbet (with rhubarb) and a pint of strawberry jam, - that's a lot! And while the strawberries were beautiful when I purchased them and started walking home with them, I erred in not immediately starting to work with them. By the time I got around to washing and hulling them in order to make said jam and sorbet, they weren't in the best of shape; they were, as a matter of fact, starting to look not good - so I really didn't get to use the full amount I had bought... My guess is that they're refrigerated after being picked, and then the heat of the day causes them to sweat profusely (like I was), leading to less than perfect fruit. Still - they were tasty. And the sorbet rocked.

How about an instant pot?

Right - my main objection is just adding an additional layer of cost to, eventually, the consumer.

Glad you got to see it. We've been looking at, and walking past, parking lots for the past 15 years (well, like 50 years actually). It's going to get even more interesting when the Market Line (downstairs from the market, running the entire length of the 2 blocks) opens. Sorry about those bums taking a day off!

Kerekes! You were right up the block from where I get my freshly killed poultry - at La Pera!

They really were large - almost 2 ounces per. I left them quite rare and juicy in the middle.

Long Island scallops (these beauties were large), sautéed and pan sauce over. Served with a made ahead orzo salad with feta, olives, onions, capers, dill, green beans, parsley, olive oil, lemon, vinegar. And a green salad alongside.

Tabbouleh - a more Sephardic version (i.e. more bulgur, or heartier than say a Lebanese version), based on a Claudia Roden recipe in The Book of Jewish Cooking. Greek salad with pickled red onions.

It has been pouring here for days. Supposed to be a nice weekend, though. Keep your fingers crossed.

If you get a chance, the brand new Essex Market is nice, and there are a few places doing sweets.

I think you get 10 free articles a month, no?

Interesting that Pizza Moto now uses compressed sawdust bricks to fire its wood burning oven. I actually think Luigi's in Park Slope has one of the best slices around. It's a classic slice shop. We really like the pizza being made at Pasquale Jones (in Little Italy!) these days. Wood burning oven using cordwood. They, too, have a double wide oven and other good roasted stuff comes out of one side.

No, just hoarders.

A few dinners that have stacked up... Brought this home from Pop+Dutch: So this was dinner the night we came home from Provincetown: My standby Roman: Mezze rigatoni all'amatriciana. Also meant a frittata the next morning for breakfast 😋. Then I went all Spanish/Basque: Ensalada de Judias Blancas. White beans (RG's fancy ones) with tomatoes, olives, onion, parsley, olive oil, wine vinegar, etc. Along with: Ensaladilla Rusa. Potato, vegetable, and tuna with capers, green olives, mayo, etc. I need to order in go out to dinner soon. This is 3 nights in a row.

They certainly don't keep as long as salami or cheeses. Under optimal conditions in the fridge (i.e. not left out too long on the counter before putting back in the fridge), a week or two at the most. But smoked salmon freezes nicely.

Many stores use what they call loss leaders, in hopes of getting customers to buy other stuff; or perhaps maybe the customer will then want to dine in at a restaurant they've ordered delivery from but hadn't tried previously?

Not that secret! Your mom's a genius!

Not necessarily 100% on topic, but a new fried pickle place is opening in our commercial strip, to be called Diller's. It's being opened by the famed Pickle Guys of Essex Street, a spinoff of one of the numerous pickle vendor that existed for years and years on the lower east side. So the pickles ought to be good; I look forward to tasting what toppings they'll be offering.

Thanks, @Anna N. You summarized the point I was attempting to make very nicely.

I try not to preach...I started what I believed to be an interesting topic about Food Traditions and Culture, based on this reporting: So that's, doing some quick back of the envelope math, about 168 million people based on the 2018 US census. The second sentence of the quoted post is interesting as well, and a nice way to steer the OP away from the point it was attempting to make. Might've even been a good topic on its own.

I confess - I loathe delivery apps. I confess - I've never used a single delivery app for a single delivery of a meal. Years ago, when they (grub hub, seamless, door dash, uber eats, et al.) first were rearing their ugly heads, I had a friend who was an early adopter; I complained to said friend that all the apps would do would be to increase the cost to consumers, as well as to chip away at the meager profits of small restaurants. He didn't cook at home and he didn't care; case closed. Oh sure - let's face it - I used delivery. But didn't we all back in simpler times, simply by calling up our local Chinese/Thai/Vietnamese/Pizza/sandwich/bodega place (A friend literally used to order Tab and cigarette delivery from her bodega - those were the days!)? I knew that when I ordered a bowl of wonton noodle soup, some stir fried pork with mixed vegetables (don't tell my rabbi) and some shrimp with black bean sauce from Tang Tang (now New Tang's Garden) on 76th and 3rd, it would arrive at our apartment practically before I'd hung up the phone, And the guy would climb 4 flights of stairs to deliver it. We had a relationship. I knew, for years after we moved downtown and started to order Saturday lunch sandwiches from Tiny's Giant Sandwich Shop, that it would always be the same guy who would deliver said sandwiches to us - without getting lost trying to find our building. We had a relationship. And when my delivery guy from Noodle Village arrived with a sack full of noodle soup, some sandy pot chicken and mushroom rice and a small order of stir fried greens with garlic, looking all sorts of disheveled, and I asked him if he was ok, his response was (I'll keep this clean): "Too much f*^%ing last night!" We had a relationship. And those relationships now? Well, let's just say they've gone the way of rotary phones, touch-tone phones, talking on phones and black & white TV's. I mean after all, if 95% of one's life is spent looking down at an iPhone while walking the crowded streets of NYC, or worse yet, riding on a damn electric scooter that gets dropped off and picked up via an app, what should I expect? Delivery apps are here to stay, I guess. Doesn't mean we should like them, does it? Take a look at what the grey lady had to say yesterday (my guess is it's not just limited to France): Food-Delivery Couriers Exploit Desperate Migrants in France Quote And The Wall St. Journal just weighed in last week, about the issues restaurants face with using the apps: Some Restaurants Get Served in Delivery Boom Quote Who do you think is paying that 30% folks? So, let's just say I was ahead of the curve in my dislike of this particular segment of the gig economy. And let's just say that instead of Uber Eats, why not cook a meal or two at home?

Top Hops on Orchard usually has some nice Spanish sidras available as well, though I don't know I'd compare them to sour beers - more like funkiness over sour. And certainly some of the ciders being produced here (Vermont, MA, Hudson River valley of NY would also be good with 'cue; I especially think the more carbonated ones work quite well.