Eating In Translation

What's Eating In Translation?

This website began as a collection of field notes on interesting food I'd tried, or planned to try, in and around New York. Since its launch, in January 2005, I've visited thousands of venues, from white-linen restaurants to elbows-on-the-table eateries, as well as street vendors, fairs, festivals, grocers, and greenmarkets — and my "to eat" list is longer than ever.

Holtermann's Bakery

My morning of "apple picking" (one glazed, one cinnamon sugar) was prompted by a visit to September's Nansen Lodge Scandinavian Heritage Fair. At that annual event, all of the baked goods were homemade, with one exception: Holtermann's kringler, a flattish, filled, iced pastry ring that was doled out two slices per portion. This day, an entire ring of kringler crowded the edges of the box immediately below my donuts. I'll show it when I can, but the dining buddy who bought it has the right of first reveal.

Holtermann's Bakery
405 Arthur Kill Rd. (Miles Ave.-Giffords Ln.), Great Kills, Staten Island
718-984-7095
https://HoltermannsBakery.webs.com

New York-area food events, November 14-21

Lower East Side Cider Festival
Thursday, November 14, 5:00-6:45 (a later session is sold out)
Essex Market, 88 Essex St. (at Delancey St.), Manhattan
www.EssexMarket.nyc/events/2019/11/14/les-cider-fest-2019
Tickets: $25
Part of Cider Week New York City

International Street Vendor Day Party
Thursday, November 14, 6:00-9:00
Mayday Space, 176 St. Nicholas Ave. (Stanhope-Himrod Sts.), Bushwick, Brooklyn
www.WithFriends.co/event/2883924/international_street_vendor_day_party
Suggested donation: $15

Tech Bites live with Feel Good Foods
Thursday, November 14, 6:00-8:00
Industry City, BIG aLICe Brewing Co. Brooklyn Barrel Room, 52 34th St. (Second-Third Aves.), Greenwood, Brooklyn
www.Eventbrite.com/e/tech-bites-live-with-feel-good-foods-at-industry-city-tickets-75783026071
Free admission with online registration

Gourmet Magazine: The Last Word in Taste, Ten Years Later
Thursday, November 14, 6:30-8:00
Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew, 263 West 86th St. (Broadway-West End Ave.), Manhattan
www.CulinaryHistoriansNY.org/events/save-the-date-gourmet-magazine-a-panel-discussion-november-14-2019
Tickets: general admission, $40; reduced for Culinary Historians of New York members and for full-time students with ID

Seed Ethics Town Hall
Thursday, November 14, 7:00-9:00
Museum of Food and Drink, 62 Bayard St. (Lorimer-Leonard Sts.), Williamsburg, Brooklyn
www.MOFAD.org/events/seedethics
Tickets: $20
One in a series presented by MOFAD

Yin Ji Chang Fen

Procure once, prepare many times: Yi Jin Chang Fen uses the same fish, tilapia, for its Lai Wan style congee, replete with crunchy peanuts and chewy curls of squid; for rice noodle rolls with sliced fish and chives; and for the not-to-be-neglected deep-fried fish skin. Touch the crispy, gently salted skin to the surface of the accompanying light soup and listen close for a breakfasttime snap, crackle, pop.

H/T Kim, @Garsleat

Yin Ji Chang Fen
91 Bayard St. (akt Mulberry St.), Manhattan
212-227-4888
www.Facebook.com/YinJiChangFen.NYC

Canstruction

More than 100 cities worldwide participate in this annual event, for which teams of architects, designers, and contractors compete to design and build sculptures from unopened cans of food. Afterward, the sculptures are disassembled and their component parts donated to local food banks (in New York, to City Harvest).

Several of the 2019 entries have a spacegoing theme, including (from top) "Houston, We Have a Hunger Problem"; One Small Can for Man, One Giant Leap Against Hunger" (also shown: detail of the RCS thruster assembly); and "For All CANkind." See my album on Flickr for many more photos, including two down-to-earth favorites from the 2014 exhibition, "A Balanced Meal" and "Hungry to the Core."

Canstruction
Brookfield Place, 230 Vesey St. (at North End Ave.), Manhattan
www.BfPlNY.com/event/canstruction
(The 2019 New York exhibit is on view November 7-21. Admission is free, "but we ask that all our visitors bring a full can of healthy food (or several) to donate to City Harvest.")

Coca-Cola, Cinerama

Surviving neighboring signs, 164 and 166 Broadway (East 5th-Dodge Sts.), Bayonne, New Jersey