Food memories

[HTRN]

When the weather got cold, the owners shuttered the place, and didn't reopen till the weather warmed. They were only open for 6 or 7 months a year.

That was typical of all the "Italian Ice" places around here.

Food is one of the few things I like about living in New York - places like Cangiano's, which baked their own bread fresh daily, made fresh mozzarella, and one of the best places to go to locally for cold cuts, and even fresh fish. Top Tomato - a "veg stand", that's actually developed into a chain, where you get good produce year round(you think you get good produce at your local supermarket? HA!). Between the two of them, they're why Whole foods doesn't open here - to much competition that charges significantly less than they do.

I'm not even going to talk about the ten bajillion local pizza places, like Goodfella's, one of the "local places", and happens to be a 3 time award winner for Best Pizza in the US.

I'm not even going to start about bagels.


HTRN

[randy]

Heck a whiff of burnt diesel on a cold day takes me back to tank driver's ed at Ft Knox in February '75. And a sniff of a coal fire in winter sends me to Graf or Hoho...

I was walking in supermarket one day and all of a sudden "Korea" hit me full force. Couldn't figure out why until I turned the corner and found out the sea food cooler was on the fritz and they were trying to clean out spoiled fish, etc.

Ahh, just like a spring day walking the Ville.

[Malthorn]

And the wife-unit would make my life an absolute living hell if there was the prospect of acquiring a bag of Utz's Crab Chips...

Is it the same as the crab chips listed on utz's website. 3 10oz bags for $12.49

[Drone 7 of lots more]

And the wife-unit would make my life an absolute living hell if there was the prospect of acquiring a bag of Utz's Crab Chips...

Is it the same as the crab chips listed on utz's website. 3 10oz bags for $12.49

Shhhhhhhhhhh!

[Lokidude]

Grandma's cookies... Mom has the recipe, and still bakes em... I can make them, but I don't bake too often. When I do, though, it's like inventing time travel, I go back 20 years to a little kitchen in Idaho.

The other one, for me, is black licorice ice cream from Farr's back home. Looks like axle grease, tastes like heaven. Reminds me of far too many summer nights in my teens sitting on the hood of a car with my Partners in Crime or a pretty girl, just loving life.

[FelixEstrella]

Boiled potatoes. My grandma ran a pig-farm, back in the old country, and visits with her always included boiled potatoes, one for each of my little hands. And a pat of fresh butter on each.

Strawberries, not the industrial-farm-type generic mutations, but the real thing, picked from wild strawberry plants while walking near my grandma's farm. Sweet and filling ... like heaven.

[SoupOrMan]

Durian. Those things smell foul, and taste nearly as bad, but the smell makes me miss Singapore (and its indigenous cooking geniuses) something fierce. Satay Club is great, all the various cuisines represented there are done extremely close to "home cooking" in terms of good cooking (I found a place that makes a decent walleye sandwich, and walleye isn't known as a Southeast Asia thing, is it?), and the local coffee is strong, sugary, and oddly perfect for a morning drink. If the place wasn't run by a group of embedded pols that make the Daleys look like pikers and the gun laws were a lot more relaxed I'd have to think about finding work there as a permanent expatriate.

[MiddleAgedKen]

Space Food Sticks.

[randy]

Space Food Sticks.

Oooohhhhh! I had forgotten about those.

[308Mike]

Space Food Sticks.

Oooohhhhh! I had forgotten about those.

Here ya' go!