Join New York City’s most intrepid eater—Robert Sietsema, pioneer of outer-boroughs dining—in an urban adventure like none other. Through essays on the city’s defining dishes, some familiar, others obscure, Robert paints a portrait of New York’s food landscape past and present, and shares a life spent uncovering the delicious foods of the five boroughs. Gobble up a century of New York pizza, from the coal-fired pies of a thriving Little Italy to the slice joints of a burgeoning rock ’n’ roll East Village. Discover Katz’s Delicatessen as Robert did, on a foray into the hardscrabble Lower East Side of the 1970s. Take Robert’s hand and he’ll bring you through the Mexican taquerias of Bushwick—with their papalo leaves and piled-high sandwiches—then visit the underground Senegalese dining scene hidden in plain sight in 1990s Times Square. See the evolution of New York fried chicken from Harlem’s spare, ancient style to the battered-and-brined birds of hipster Brooklyn. Hunt with Robert for Hangtown fry and a vanishing Chinese-American cuisine, and follow him as he ferrets out the city’s most elusive foods, including the Ecuadorian guinea pig.

New York in a Dozen Dishes

Business & Money

Sietsema, Robert

Industries

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

Attention Getters (Hart Picture Archives)

Hart Publishing company

On other books in the Secret Series: This jewel of a book [Secret Toronto] with amazing photos by Linda Rutenberg, aims to lead the inquisitive astray” NOW Magazine Secret Toronto guides locals and visitors to the unusual, frivolous, and downright quirky attractions of the city. No pre-planned tours or planned itineraries here.” Globe and Mail There are dozens of published guides to New York City, nearly all of them covering the same well-trodden territory of pricey restaurants, major hotels, and shopping at pick-your-pocket prices. Here’s a tourist guide with a difference. New York insider and Village Voice columnist Robert Sietsema has assembled a topic-focussed book: * Secret Metrocard,” for example, explains how to get the most bang for your buck from this new transit card. It tells you how to turn a free transfer into a free round trip, and how to exploit the 18-minute secret grace period. * Secret American Indians” tells you where to find a hidden Indian cave right on the island of Manhattan. * Secret Cheap Eats” reveals where to get a delicious, multi-course meal for less than five dollars. There are chapters on how to plug into the Japanese underground, where to find the best bagel and egg cream, where to find the rock clubs that the hipsters frequent, where to rent a bicycle to tour the city, and where to ride it so you don’t get run over. Secret New Yorkgives you the inside information that natives use to get by in and even over this challenging metropolis.

Secret New York: The Unique Guidebook to New York s Hidden Sites, Sounds, and Tastes (Secret Guide series)

Travel

United States

ECW Press

A restaurant guide to more than six hundred restaurants in eighty national and cultural groupings is comprised mostly of affordable locations and includes profiles of both famous and hole-in-the-corner eateries. Original.

The Food Lover's Guide to the Best Ethnic Eating in New York City: Revised and Updated Edition

Food, Lodging & Transportation

Arcade Pub

Good & Cheap Ethnic Eats in New York City

City & Co

From Argentinian to Yugoslavian, Get ready to taste New York City...the world's melting pot of cuisines with this vastly expanded third edition of Good & Cheap Ethnic Eats. Now with nearly 500 restaurants in 79 national and cultural categories, you can easily stage your own version of Around the World in Eighty Days, without ever leaving the city.

The Food Lover's Guide to The Best Ethnic Eating in NYC

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