Topic: New York City

New on the menu at NYC restaurants: Health Department grades of A, B or CNew York City's 24,000 restaurants include fast food outlets selling chicken by the bucket and temples of haute cuisine where multi-course tasting menus can cost hundreds of dollars ...

Wall St lawyer finds new career in cupcakes for men

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - There is a Rum and Coke, B-52, Sidecar and Driller. No, they are not cocktails, but cupcakes -- for men. When former Wall Street lawyer David Arrick lost his job during the U.S. recession, he decided to ...

Travel Picks: Tapas in Spain and other top food-place combos

SINGAPORE (Reuters Life!) - Eating can be the best part of traveling, and travel authority Lonely Planet has come up with a list of the top 10 cities across the globe to enjoy iconic dishes. This list, from Lonely Planet's book "1000 ...
Some food items that will meet voluntary salt limits under effort led by NYCSixteen food companies or restaurant chains said Monday that some of their products will meet voluntary limits on salt content by 2012 or by 2014, including: _ Au Bon ...

DiSpirito rehabs fatty American comfort foods

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Rocco DiSpirito used all of his culinary tricks to slash calories from the 150 fatty foods Americans love in his new book, "NOW eat THIS!" The 43-year-old chef showed that much of the fats and sugar in ...
NYC's other Chinatown: Take the train to Flushing, Queens, for great food, shopping, historyFor many visitors to New York, a trip to Chinatown means heading to Lower Manhattan. But the city has another Chinatown in Flushing, Queens, not as well-known, but just ...
Culinary stars to mourn closing of Gourmet magazine at New York City chefs' 'gathering'Some culinary stars are gathering to mourn the death of an old friend — Gourmet magazine. Celebrity chefs including Emeril Lagasse and Eric Ripert are expected Sunday at the ...

New York chefs shed pounds to fight hunger

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - A group of New York chefs have been eating smaller portions and working out in the gym to lose weight and raise up to $250,000 to fight childhood hunger. About 15 culinary experts taking part in the ...

Ball Blue Book Guide to Preserving

As a child growing up in Massachusetts, I spent summer afternoons with my sisters and mother at a nearby farm, picking fresh strawberries. We’d load up cardboard containers with sweet, fragrant fruit; back home, we’d snack on buttermilk biscuits topped with berries ...
Cupcake tour of NYC, where cupcakes aren't just a craze _ they're an industryThis city is crazy for cupcakes. There are cupcake classes and cupcake tours, lines down the block at cupcake bakeries, a cupcake tea at a five-star hotel, and a ...
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