Taxi Gourmet – Fasten your seat belt and let the food quest begin…

After he’d performed a tango to “Quejas de Bandoneón” for what must have been the thousandth time, I asked my tango teacher if he ever got tired of dancing to the same song. “Never,” he said, “Every dance is different. The orchestra is different. My mood is different, my partner’s, …

Photo courtesy zurika.com New York is pissed off about Christmas. I don’t care how spectacular the giant snowflake hanging over 57th St. is, how ornate the 5th Avenue window displays are, how grand the tree at Rockefeller Center or how many lights bejewel every street from Park Avenue to Queens …

7 days + 1 hungry Canadian pastry chef + 1 food-obsessed New York cabbie + 2 skinny wallets + 5 boroughs of spectacular restaurants = a New York taxi driver’s food tour. Want to take a shortcut to everything we tasted this past week? Check out this food map! * …

7 days + 1 hungry Canadian pastry chef + 1 food-obsessed New York cabbie + 2 skinny wallets + 5 boroughs of spectacular restaurants = a New York taxi driver’s food tour. The delicious marathon with my food-loving friend from Canada continues. Here’s what I made her taste during days …

Banana pudding. Pineapple upside-down cake. Fried chicken and waffles. [The best?!] Collard greens in the city. Mac and cheese. Scottish ale. Stewed pork and spicy lamb cumin noodles. Day 2 of the New York City food tour with my food-obsessed friend from Canada tasted pretty good. Here’s our feast in …

My friend Carolynn from Vancouver is spending a week in New York City: I want her to taste some of the best things cabbies have recommended during my taxi adventures, and I want her to try my favorite stuff from my Gotham restaurant reconnaissance. Here’s our food report from Day …

7 days + 1 hungry Canadian pastry chef + 1 food-obsessed New York cabbie + 2 skinny wallets + 5 boroughs of spectacular restaurants = a New York taxi driver’s food tour. Carolynn is coming to New York. I realize you might not know who she is, so let me …

Pascuale Freni started driving a taxi in the 1970s, when the Bronx was burning, when the mafia owned the curbs in the Garment District, when “we were used to body counts” that drove a million people from New York City. According to Pascuale, hacking was one of the most dangerous …

Like most Argentines, the taxistas of Buenos Aires harbor an excessive love for the steak that is their city’s culinary’s signature. I had more than one cabbie tell me “it’s not a meal without un buen bife.” Though a lot of taxistas insisted that the best steaks came from their …

Marathon Sunday. New York City. I had visions of giving away banana after banana to exhausted, potassium-depleted runners – and of rushing at least one of the 43,000 competitors in the New York Marathon to a Manhattan emergency room. In the end, I only handed out two bananas (one to …