Robert Sietsema
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10 dishes that demonstrate the delicious diversity of curry in New York City (opens the original)
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Indians and other South Asians are very serious about their masalas, concocting examples that can contain a dozen or more freshly ground spices. It was no accident that British colonialists fell in love with the food, but, having had little experience with the constituent flavors, figured the delicious taste was owing to a single spice. And thus was the idea of curry as a spice unto itself formed. The word “curry” was probably inspired by “kari,” a word for black pepper in ancient Tamil, but als
Where to eat in Greenpoint, Brooklyn right now, from Polish to Sichuan to Iberian (opens the original)
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With uncommon stealth, Greenpoint has become one of the city’s top dining destinations. Located at the extreme northwest corner of Brooklyn, the neighborhood looks across the East River toward Manhattan on one hand, and across the fantastically polluted New Town Creek at Queens on the other. That pollution is the result of the industrial nature of Greenpoint in the 19th century, when it was home to oil refineries, chemical factories, smelters, leather tanners, and other smoke-belching manifestat
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