December 2010
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Slice Harvester Tells it Like It Is
I’ve made no effort to conceal my love of pizza and am not ashamed to admit that there are more than a couple pizza blogs in my RSS reader. I don’t easily tire of reading about new pizza places and I’m always interested in a fresh perspective.
Colin from Slice Harvester is attempting to eat every slice of pizza in New York City (starting with Manhattan). There has been...
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At least not at Christmastime
This story of a man barricading himself in the Harrod’s Christmas light control room and spelling out naughty words is funny. The quote from the Gary, Indiana grandmother who witnessed it? Pure comedy gold.
“Honestly, I am disgusted, ” said Irene Rider, 59, from Gary, Indiana. “I was with my grandchildren. We had just gotten off the bus. I said ‘look everybody’ and pointed up to the lights...
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Songs of the Years
Ben Greenman created a special playlist for the New Yorker holiday party this year. He chose one track from each year of the New Yorker’s existence and played them in chronological order:
At the party, the mix worked like a charm. Jazz and blues greeted the early arrivals, and as the party picked up, the mood became romantic (thanks to the big-band and vocal recordings of the late thirties...
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Unwrapper
Did you know that, when used on food packaging, words such as “healthy” and “low-calorie” have specific definitions regulated by the USDA and FDA? If you’ve ever been wandering the aisles of a grocery store and wanted to know exactly how a giant sack of potato chips can get away with being labeled “light,” wonder no more.
The guys from Salt & Fat have...