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She draws on her Taíno roots alongside West African and European ancestry to create dishes celebrating a rich tapestry of cultural influences. The manoomin cakes were first introduced by the cafe’s inaugural chef, Richard Hetzler , who led the culinary team from 2004 to 2016 and authored the cafe’s cookbook.
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Sheraton, who grew up in New York, had a profound influence on modern food criticism, pioneering making reservations under false names and wearing wigs to dinner, in order to see how restaurants would treat “real” patrons. As she remarked of her Dualit toaster in 2004 : ‘’Every food writer in the world said it was the best.
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But Sarin’s electric, sweat-inducing version is totally different: spicy with dried chile paste (influenced by Indonesia), tinged yellow by turmeric (adopted from Indian traders), and girded with fermented shrimp (drawn from preservation practices in Southeast Asia). Take gaeng som. In central Thailand, the soup is reddish and sweet-and-sour.
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HAGS sits at 163 First Avenue in Manhattan, which from 2004 to 2007 was the original location of Momofuku Noodle Bar. That influenced the layout of the bar and the kitchen, making it open “so they can catch glances of each other throughout the service.” The transformation was sort of an amazing feat. It was famously spare and cramped.
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Now, influencers might post their late-night Taco Bell on Instagram, and then buy a Taco Bell mild hot sauce onesie to take funny photos in. Morgan Spurlock’s 2004 documentary Super Size Me, in which he ate McDonald’s three times a day for a month and gained weight, was used as proof that fast food was dangerously unhealthy.
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Food Network’s long-running version, Iron Chef America , which ran from 2004 to 2018, now seems like a relic of a prior era, with the now-disgraced Mario Batali one of its early Iron Chefs.) Claudette Zepeda competes on an episode. Adam Rose/Netflix. Quest for an Iron Legend addresses the “why care?”
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JULY 18, 2023
Quiznos ditched the Spongmonkeys in 2004, likely because both their store franchisees and consumers alike hated those commercials. They’re heavily influenced by strange-looking bears and tarsiers. We love the subs, ‘cause they are good to us,” they sang hoarsely. Who knows what they actually are? All of them.
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