In today's Dining & Wine section, the NYT reports on the new idea of "hot cereal" for dinner. Now, without taking them to task over their definition of cereal, which is another post entirely, this just proves how myopic their approach to food is. Shrimp and grits (hominy) has been around about as long as shrimp and grits have; and people in the south have been combining them and enjoying them for breakfast for just as long. In the last 20 years or so, the dish has migrated to dinner-- well ahead of any uptight New York food writer's appreciation of hot cereal for dinner.
I propose we add soul food in Harlem (Amy Ruth's/Sylvia's) to the Lunch Game in protest of such narrow-mindedness.
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
More proof they're behind the Times
Posted by lex at 8:58 AM
Labels: New York Times, Restaurants, Restaurants Not Visited, The Gamesheet
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Do these places have addresses?
I think even in Harlem they have addresses, yes.
I fully support the inclusion of these establishments.
FYI:
Amy Ruth's Home-Style Southern Cuisine: 113 W. 116th St., New York, NY 10026 between Lenox Ave. and Adam Clayton Powell Blvd.
Sylvia's: 328 Lenox Ave., New York, NY 10027 nr. 127th St.
Roast chicken is still roast chicken whether you label it haute cuisine, bourgeois cuisine or country cooking; even calling it "poulet roti" will not transmogrify this simple bird.
-- Jacques Pepin, "The Chicken Dinner, Both Humble and Noble", New York Times, January 4, 1989
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