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03/24/2021

Just a little bonus from the NYC Burger Bash. Josh had a little fun with the Mark Pastore about the various alliances in the world of meat and restaurants. All this post Lasagna-gate too!

03/24/2021

On the one hand, why bring up a burger bash from 10 years ago? Who cares? But when I rewatch this, I just can't help but remember Josh at his schmooziest best. I think we managed to hit almost every celebrity at the Burger Bash this time. My personal favorite is Katie Lee imploring Josh not to open the Coke Zero bottle with his teeth.

03/17/2021

Always a fan of controversy, Josh jumped right on Noah Bernamoff's statements about Katz's. This is one of the more cerebral of the OTV catalogue but I picked it because in agreeing with Noah, Josh threaded the needle of his traditionalist dogma. This is the same guy who said you can never put anything but American cheese on a burger, who chose Eisenberg's as our de facto home base, and yet he also acknowledges here that food culture cannot become so static as Katz's had become. In a way it all fits because one thing he always disliked about New York City was what he called the "Disney-fication" of the city and he frequently bemoaned if a certain restaurant "became a museum of itself." At any rate, Mile End is now over a decade old and going strong so it seems like Noah has succeeded in keeping the tradition of the Jewish Deli alive and new.

03/10/2021

We shot this the same day as the Dough Doughnuts tasting. This was one of my other favorite spots from the old neighborhood and I dared Josh not to like it. In many ways it is right up his alley: no fanfare, under the radar, generally sticking to the historical conventions of pizza. But it really is so good and much to the satisfaction of my ego, Josh did indeed really like it. So score one for Nice and I guess score one against Dough. How I miss them both.

03/10/2021

I had been living in Bed-Stuy for several years when the Kennedy Fried Chicken across the street from the Lafayette Gardens Projects turned into a doughnut shop. As a doughnut fan myself I was very excited (fun fact, I happened to have given Dough's very first yelp review!) and I wanted Josh to get in on it before it really blew up like it would over the next several years. Here Josh does a tasting and true to form he really disliked it for mostly valid reasons although I think the heart of it is that they strayed from the historically recognized canon of donuts (simple raised glazed) and became pretentious in his eyes. Josh predictably always liked Peter Pan in Greenpoint the best with their kitschy formica counters and honey-dipped donuts, but I think the blonde Polish girls that worked the counter kind of tipped the scales for him. For what it's worth, I always went to Dough every time I was back in New York and I look forward to see what Fan Fan doughnuts are like next time I'm there.

03/04/2021

We had approximately two of these videos (the other one is next week) where Josh basically sets up a superbly unfair comparison between a widely known food item and a vastly superior version available only in New York City. They're fun like shooting fish in a barrel. This one is about roast beef sandwiches and Josh had the audacity to film the comparison inside of the Subway restaurant. But for all the ease in mocking Subway's roast beef sandwich, it has persevered while This Little Piggy has sadly gone belly up.

03/03/2021

Like last week's video, this one is all about snide comparison between the most pervasive pizza in America and the elite pizza that you can only get in New York City. I think everyone understood just how snooty and unfair the comparison was at the time but it was still fun to hear a bread guru give us his take on something with which we are all familiar.

02/24/2021

One thing that I really loved about Josh was his willingness to go to the far ends of the five bouroghs to expose the world to all of New York City's food culture. Here he takes us to a cupping at the Dalis Coffee Company. I'd never heard of a cupping until we shot this and every time I get a good cup of coffee I think of this video.

02/18/2021

You can see Josh's reverence here for a master of one of Josh's favorite dishes. This is one of the only videos we shot up in Harlem, and not because there weren't other great restaurants, but mostly because Josh and I both lived so far away from Harlem. I'm pretty sure I biked myself and my gear up here because I was a maniac at the time or maybe because I didn't want to fork over cab fare. At any rate, it would be wrong not to include this video in the "best of" category, if only for how badly Chef Charles butchers Josh's name!

02/10/2021

Josh mentions that we learned about this dish at the Cochon 555 festival from last week's butchery video. It's a moment that I remember vividly. The event staff at the festival had platters roaming about with all sorts of good pig-based items and by this part of shooting the show I had learned my handheld shooting technique for tasting.

Sometimes that was the only way I'd have a chance to try these amazing dishes. Basically what you do is stabilize the camera with your shoulder and right hand, grab a quick bite of something with your left hand, and stuff it in your mouth while continuing to hold your shot. Then wipe your fingers on your pants leg and resume pulling focus with that left hand. Kind of gross, I know...

Anyway, one lady came by with these little dark popsicle thingys and I went right into my routine. I grabbed one and took a bite. It was warm and soft like pudding and the peanuts and chili sauce definitely gave it a taste I associated with South-East Asia. I liked it! But I couldn't figure out what exactly it was that I was eating so I asked the lady before she walked away. The instant that she uttered the words "pork blood popsicle," a switch went off in my mind and pleasure turned quickly to disgust. I wanted to be a better, more mature gastronome than that. I mean I had recently read "The Omnivore's Dilemma" and I immediately thought of the whole "use the whole animal," rationalization blah blah blah... I took one more bite and choked it down but I couldn't finish that last bite. I'm ashamed to say that somehow my mind had ruined it for me.

When we went to shoot the making of video you see here, I couldn't even hide my feelings about the dish from Chef Brad Farmerie which I think he found amusing. Of course Josh was completely unphased, which just goes to show just how much he loved pigs.

01/27/2021

This was one of the best roast chickens that I ever tasted. I still think about it and I've adapted it in the years since, although Chef Harold Moore is correct that it does always set off the smoke alarm. Also, I tend to leave out the fois gras. But then again, I don't live in the West Village. Josh and I both really liked Chef Moore's presence in the kitchen and on screen. I'm not sure if he still makes this dish at his current restaurants but if he does, it's worth whatever he's charging.

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