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Everything you find in New Orleans can be found in New York. No, it won't be as good, and no, it's not QUITE as authentic, but you can find it and it will be DAMN good. And it won't be wrapped up into some chain style joint either.
Yes, New Orleans style Creole/Cajun is very distinctive. But it can be found in other places. And i bet it'll be better in New York than it'll be in Knoxville, that's for damn sure.
But everything in NYC can be found elsewhere too...
Yet before he came along with his ideas the critics and experts raved about his predecessors...
Says a lot about critics and experts...
Critics I never bother with, because everyone knows what a critic is, an expert I will listen to and question until I know for a fact they dont know what they're talking about.
I might tend to agree that some Southern dishes are not that healthy (fried food primarily), but to heap some kind of "social" stigma on it is just plain silly.
It seems like today many "upscale" restaurants are trying to outdo each other by coming up with the most insane and bizarre food combinations possible. Honestly, some of the menu items are laughable they are so "out there", in the name of being trendy. Not to mention the fact that you don't HAVE TO HAVE GARLIC in every single dish!!!!
Given the choice between fried catfish with corn fritters and chimayo chili wrapped duck breast with black beans, chevre, roasted butternut squash, duck confit rilette and fig demi, you can bet I'd pick the catfish.
I'm not a fried food fan, but I do live in the South. Why would any Southerner worth his weight in chicken fried steak even care what the say in New York?
Unfortunately, its the closest city to me.....they do have a wonderful seafood market there, Winter Park, to be exact. Lombardi's Seafood - Fresh Seafood
Paul was one of the first to put the idea of locally sourced food out there, amazing when you consider it all, you know?
If you are going to buy good seafood, buy it from the source. I would not buy bluefin tuna in grocery store in Alaska any more than you should buy king crab or wild salmon in Florida.
I might tend to agree that some Southern dishes are not that healthy (fried food primarily), but to heap some kind of "social" stigma on it is just plain silly.
That is a myth actually. Fried foods are only bad for you when you use trans-fat. Deep-frying with either canola or peanut oil is a mono-unsaturated fat with beneficial omega-3 fatty acids (in the case of canola oil).
As long as the oil temperature is 350°F or higher, there will be very little oil transferred to the food, less than a teaspoon. So there is absolutely no basis to the myth that deep-fried food is any less healthy than any other prepared food.
I'm not a fried food fan, but I do live in the South. Why would any Southerner worth his weight in chicken fried steak even care what the say in New York?
Good point. Anything you can get in NY, you can get somewhere else.
Everything you find in New Orleans can be found in New York. No, it won't be as good, and no, it's not QUITE as authentic, but you can find it and it will be DAMN good. And it won't be wrapped up into some chain style joint either.
Yes, New Orleans style Creole/Cajun is very distinctive. But it can be found in other places. And i bet it'll be better in New York than it'll be in Knoxville, that's for damn sure.
And "Yankee Food" is far from repetitive. You just don't know what to eat.
No, you don't get it. Anything you can get in NY, you can get somewhere else. Either NO, Dallas, Houston, Miami or Atlanta. NY just has more restaurants and more pretentious critics that think the world starts and ends in NY. It doesn't.
Yankee food is bland, tasteless. I've been there, done that.
Everything you find in New Orleans can be found in New York. No, it won't be as good, and no, it's not QUITE as authentic, but you can find it and it will be DAMN good. And it won't be wrapped up into some chain style joint either.
Yes, New Orleans style Creole/Cajun is very distinctive. But it can be found in other places. And i bet it'll be better in New York than it'll be in Knoxville, that's for damn sure.
And "Yankee Food" is far from repetitive. You just don't know what to eat.
well said. New Orleans is great cuisine. As is Locke-Ober and Le Cirque up north...
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