Menu du jour lower east side : 23 Recipes


  • Recipe Shopping in New York: Russ & Daughters on the Lower East Side.
    Shopping in New York: Russ & Daughters on the Lower East Side.
    Russ & Daughters I have a new thing–sitting on benches in front of world-famous stores and glaring at people as they pass by making asinine comments. Michael It’s a good thing (for us) that the Lower East Side requires[...]
  • Recipe mediterranean chicken in the lower east side of manhattan - aka "belly dancing chicken"
    mediterranean chicken in the lower east side of manhattan - aka "belly dancing chicken"
    T hrough the magic of cooking and blogging I am able to transform regular ingredients into exotic ingredients from far away lands with the application of herbs, spices and heat all in a two hour span. I know that may sound like some kind of[...]
  • Recipe Festival of Ideas StreetFest and Hester Street Fair Opening ? Sat May 7
    Festival of Ideas StreetFest and Hester Street Fair Opening ? Sat May 7
    The Festival of Ideas for the New City , which launched this past Wed May 5th, is a major new collaborative initiative in New York involving over 200 Downtown organizations and community groups, working together to imagine the future city and[...]
  • Recipe Lower east side lox
    Lower east side lox
    1 c Cream Cheese; Softened 1/2 c Sour Cream 1/2 c Lox Or Smoked Salmon; Cubed 1/4 c Fresh Chives; Chopped, OR 4 ts Dried Chives; Crushed 2 tb Onion; White, Chopped 1/8 ts White Pepper 1 ts Whipping Cream Beat the cream cheese to a smooth[...]
  • Recipe A Fuzhou Supermarket on the Lower East Side
    A Fuzhou Supermarket on the Lower East Side
    Back in the day (oh, say 1970), NYC's Chinatown was a fairly easily definable area, roughly bordered on the north by Canal Street, east by the Bowery, south by Worth Street and west by Baxter Street.When we were high schoolers who wanted to come[...]
  • Recipe Fruits and Veggies on the Lower East Side -  Ruby's
    Fruits and Veggies on the Lower East Side - Ruby's
    Our neighborhood is an interesting one. Some call it the Lower East Side (which it is), others call it Chinatown (which it isn't, but sorta has become), others just say "WTF?" because when you say you live on East Broadway, or at Clinton and Grand,[...]
  • Recipe Almost Open
    Almost Open
    If there's one thing I can't stand, it's bloggers who find a need to breathlessly post about the brand newest, most hottest places that the rest of we mere mortals haven't even figured out have opened. That's the game of the blog to many, I suppose.[...]
  • Recipe Elevator Going Up...
    Elevator Going Up...
    New Yorkers are fairly fond of their views. At least those that have some. But views in New York can be fleeting. And they're certainly always changing. That's why when I'd heard that Gouverneur Healthcare Services was getting ready to under a[...]
  • Recipe Grumpy Old Men and Katz's
    Grumpy Old Men and Katz's
    In a strange, simple twist of fate, Significant Eater and I had lunch yesterday with two friends who were in the city for their son's before-going-to-college orientation. And when I asked them where they wanted to go, well...whaddya know, they[...]
  • Recipe For He's A Jolly Good Butcher
    For He's A Jolly Good Butcher
    My favorite butcher in the world (well, if not the world, then on the lower east side of NYC) is Jeffrey Ruhalter, of Jeffrey's Meat Market in the Essex Street Market. For instance, check out this whole flat-cut brisket from Jeffrey, and the fat[...]