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Scare Away E. Coli with Mini-Burgers at L’Orange Bleu

Monday, October 19, 2009

Amid the scare of the mysterious horrible power of E. Coli everyone’s whispering “don’t eat the hamburgers!” Generally I agree, who wants to eat bits of bone fragments and intestines and spinal column? Nastybits do not a delicious sandwich make! This terror built up all week and then Sunday rolled around and I found [...]

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Season of Liquid Sandwiches

Monday, August 10, 2009

NY Mag’s Ice Cream Sandwich Roundup gives a good index of ice cream sandwiches in the city! Hooray!

(Picture shamelessly stolen from a previous post)

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Adopt a Crustacean at the Lobster Pound

Monday, August 3, 2009

A lobster roll delivered directly from Maine to Brooklyn.

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Blue Bunny Goes to Sedona, Forgets Flavor

Saturday, July 11, 2009

Once upon a time there was a crappy, crowded street corner in midtown-west, Manhattan. It was bustling with tourists and cube-dwellers scouting the next big spandex hit. Life was drab and colorless. Then one hot summer day, Blue Bunny decided to launch a cross-promotion with Sedona, rent a truck and hand out free frozen yogurt sandwiches to all!

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Not Just “Street Meat”: A gourmet Czech sandwich in Portland

Monday, June 22, 2009

Having just returned from a trip to Texas, I hoped to have a few awesome barbecue sandwiches to write about. A classic chopped beef brisket, a smoked sausage – these are the things I crave when I return to my homeland. But this trip involved attending a wedding, which involved lots of scheduled meals, none [...]

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ShakeShack Presents the Uber-Burger

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Everyone loves to sit in Madison Square Park and grin at the city spinning around them. It’s an old fact. Everyone loves Shake Shack. Another aging fact.  Everyone grumbles about the line. Also a fact. The hamburgers are delicious. Fact again. The towering mountain of meat, cheese and deep fried mushrooms known as the “Shack [...]

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