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Joseph Aponte intended to make his living as catcher for the New York Mets. By chance, he applied for a job as a barback at Littleneck and ended up as chef. Littleneck touts itself as ...

 
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Leonardo Molina, the owner of Bushwick’s Arepera Guacuco, grew up on the island of Margarita, which lies just off the coast of Venezuela, in a typically warm, azure, swath of the Caribbean Sea. He ...

 
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At Arthur on Smith, Chef Joe Isidori reinterprets the Italian-American dishes he grew up on with his own more modern (Michelin-starred) sensibilities and techniques. Chef Joe Isidori grew up in the Bronx, in a home ...

 
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Carolyn's picks this week include an inaugural dinner at 606 R&D, a southern France wine repast at Prime Meats, a Sixpoint beer feast at Buttermilk Channel, the triumphant return of supper ...

 
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Polenta with a simple sauce made with preserved summer tomatoes, topped with beets, shredded cabbage, fennel fronds and pickled peppers, with a baked egg, at Eat. Every restaurant has a thing – new school or ...

 
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It all started with cassoulet. Sung Park, chef and owner of Williamsburg’s tiny Café Petit, grew up in Seoul. He cultivated his cooking skills working as chef in one of his family’s restaurants. ...

 
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Omer Shemesh and Alexandra Costin of Newtown, an oasis offering a selection of scratch-made vegetarian sandwiches, salads and soups amid the manufacturing sites and artist's studios of industrial East Williamsburg. To those who ...

 
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Sutheera Denprapa serves her sweet 'sushi' at SkyIce. Sutheera Denprapa, owner and chef at Park Slope’s SkyIce, came to Brooklyn from her native Bangkok to study graphic design at Pratt. In a ...

 
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New York is known across the planet as the city of relentless reinvention. The skyline reaches ever higher into the clouds; time warps neighborhoods like  funhouse mirrors as wave after wave of newcomers erode and ...

 
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According to Wikipedia and a few other sites, “the primrose path” refers to a life of luxury. I’m not sure what that has to do with the primrose that grows wild ...

 
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One day not too long ago, the team behind Egg, the Williamsburg breakfast and lunch spot known for sourcing produce from its very own farm upstate and for its simple-but-refined Southern fare, decided to open ...

 
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Cheryl Rogowski grows potatoes and many other vegetables at her farm in the black dirt region of upstate New York. Many chefs say her produce is notably rich in flavor. We visited Cheryl at the ...

 
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It seems the planets have aligned for SCRATCHbread. After garnering a cult following at Brooklyn Flea for his decadently good focaccia and brownies, founder Matthew Tilden left the market a couple of years ago and ...

 
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Pok Pok at Brooklyn Night Bazaar Red-hot spot Pok Pok sets up (temporary) shop in the Brooklyn Night Bazaar as the latest installment in its Mezzanine Restaurant Series. The prix-fixe menu includes signature dishes like ...

 
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Whirlybird in Williamsburg made headlines for bringing the breakfast taco – a massive improvement on the heretofore NYC breakfast standard of bacon, egg and cheese on a roll – from its native Austin, Texas to ...