Category: Food & Drink

<< back to foods in New York City The very rich, chocolatey Brooklyn blackout cake is associated with an iconic chain of Brooklyn bakeries called Ebinger’s, which went bankrupt in 1972 after 74 years in business. Ebinger’s blackout cake was practically a cult favorite: a three-layer devil’s food cake with dark chocolate pudding giving it…

<< back to foods in North Jersey Disco might be dead, but not in the diners of North Jersey, where disco fries have long reigned. This late-night comfort food is a very Jersey spin on the poutine of Québec, Canada: Steak-cut French fries are crisped up and smothered in copious amounts of savory brown gravy…

<< back to foods in New Orleans It wasn’t until our third trip to New Orleans that the local noodle soup called ya-ka-mein crossed our path. A popular festival food and hangover cure that combines noodles with green onion, boiled egg, and your meat of choice, ya-ka-mein has a soy sauce-based broth laced with Creole…