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All Posts Tagged: ‘chick-fil-a’

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5/22/08

10:00 AM

East Side Vendor Owes City Thousands; Omega-3 Fatty Acids Are Everywhere

• For those who hate paying the markup on wines at restaurants, Country is offering bottles at wholesale prices on Monday, meaning you can pay $150 for a selection that would normally sell for $500. [Zagat Buzz]

• Dieting to lose weight is as simple as wearing blue-tinted sunglasses all the time! [Mouthing Off/ Food & Wine]

• Omega-3 fatty acids are being thrown into all kinds of manufactured foods now, from cheese sticks to pasta to mayonnaise. [NYDN]

• Antonios Dragonas, an Upper East Side street vendor with a loyal following, has 42 violations that require him to pay the city $16,865. [NYT]

• The Chick-fil-A–inspired Southern Style Chicken Sandwich at McDonald’s will probably be a very successful item, as is usually the case when one fast-food chain steals ideas from another. [NYT]

Mediavore 

5/ 1/08

10:00 AM

De Niro to Open Nobu Hotel; Start Stockpiling Food Today

• Robert De Niro plans to open Nobu Hotel — a Japanese-themed hotel-condo complex housing an outpost of the famous restaurant — in the financial district. [NYP]

• Gordon Ramsay was expected to stop by the launch of Alain Ducasse’s Benoit last night. [Mouthing Off/Food & Wine]

• In case you missed Law and Order: SVU on Tuesday night, Robin Williams played a creep who also happened to be a locavore. What are the writers implying here? [Serious Eats]

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NewsFeed 

4/16/08

4:50 PM

The Politics of the Palate Just Doesn't Taste Right

The lead article in the Times' "Dining" section today makes so much sense intuitively, and so little sense in its particulars, that our minds are still buzzing over it. In their search to parse the identities of potential voters, various pollsters and social-science types have figured out how your palate defines your politics. That’s believable enough. Clearly, people who eat Moon Pies tend to be less vehement about the capital-gains tax than those who snack on caviar-topped blini. But “Democrats prefer Popeye's and Republicans Chick-fil-A”? Really? Then why aren’t there as many Chick-fil-A outlets as there are Popeye’s? (And, anyway, anyone who would prefer Chick-fil-A to Popeye’s doesn’t deserve the right to vote.) These kind of broad-gauge cultural generalizations are all right as knowing jokes in Vanity Fair or on The Daily Show, but when applied to the democratic process, they are grotesque. (The reflexive red state–blue state culture pairing was one of the very worst journalistic legacies of the Clinton years.) Now hand us a beet sangria — we have an Obama rally to catch.

What’s for Dinner? The Pollster Wants to Know [NYT]

The Underground Gourmet 

2/12/07

11:00 AM

Sneaking Past Security for the Sandwich of the Week

And so the Chick-fil-A sandwich ascended into heaven ...Photo: Melissa Hom

Chick-fil-A, the Atlanta-based purveyor of chicken-breast sandwiches, is the second largest chicken-centric fast-food operation in the country, and yet there is only one branch in New York — and it doesn’t even really count. Opened three years ago to little foodie fanfare, the local outpost is ensconced between Quizno’s and JW’s Grille in the food court of NYU’s Joe Weinstein Center (5-11 University Pl., nr. 8th St.), and as such it’s been a well-kept undergrad secret.

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