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Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Johns of 12th Street New York

JOHN'S of 12th STREET

ITALIAN RESTAURANT

SINCE 1908

Tuesday, December 17, 2024

New York Most Affordable Burger Burgers

GREAT BURGERS at an AFFORDABLE PRICE

"THANK YOU CAFETERIA at JUBILEE MARKET"

This is a GREAT PUBLIC SERVICE to BROOKLYN NY & MANKIND

TASTY SLIDERS at an AFFORDABLE PRICE

SLIDERS are Just $2.55

NEW YORK'S Most AFFORDABLE BURGERS

THANKS to This MAN "YOUNG KIM"

At the start of the month, something interesting happened in the world of New York burgers. (If it wasn’t for TikTok, I’m not sure anyone would have noticed.) In the western reaches of Greenpoint, at the foot of a 40-story apartment complex, and right by another one being built, a small cafeteria started selling burgers inspired by the legendary New Jersey diner, White Manna.

But instead of charging Greenpoint prices — the condos upstairs are listing for a million dollars each — the burgers were priced at a reasonable $2.15, or $2.55 with cheese.

All of the ingredients for the burger come from the attached supermarket, which is one reason the price is lower. But that’s not all that’s happening. Kim is doing something unheard of in the restaurant industry and selling the burgers “at cost,” the price of ingredients, plus labor, before a dish is marked up for sale. He makes about five cents on each burger, meaning for every thousand he sells, he makes about fifty bucks.

You can look at his burger as a loss leader — a way to get people into the grocery store downstairs, where the prices are higher. But the longer you talk to Kim, you might start to view it as his life’s work. “It’s expensive to eat in this neighborhood,” he says. “We wanted to do something everyone could enjoy.”

Some days, he flips patties behind the grill. That’s where Rob Martinez, a producer at Righteous Eats, found him earlier this month. Martinez says he was drawn to Kim’s personality. “If there’s not a real person behind [the business], we wouldn’t do a story,” he said in a text message. He profiled the business in a video that has since been viewed more than 500,000 times between TikTok and Instagram.

“This burger costs less than the subway,” Martinez says on camera. Jubilee Market is now selling hundreds of them a day.

Kim has actually been selling burgers since last year, but until recently, they were bigger and more expensive. “It wasn’t clicking,” he says. One day he did something wild: He came into work with a bag of White Mana hamburgers, which were cold because they came from New Jersey, and he asked his business partner to perform a miracle. “He wanted me to recreate them,” says Samantha La Manna, “but better.”

So, La Manna went downstairs, where the market performs whole-animal butchery, and took some meat left over from trimming steaks. She ground it up, shaped it into a patty, and cooked it on a flat top grill with shaved onions, like at White Mana. Unlike White Mana, she put a clove of slow-roasted garlic in the middle. It seeps into the patty’s pores, making the meat taste buttery and homemade.

It’s not a White Mana burger, but it is a La Manna one, and it’s wonderful.

Those are the touches of a career chef. Before La Manna was making two-buck burgers, she worked at several Brooklyn restaurants, including Cozy Royale. Two years ago, she was up for a job at Francie, a Michelin-starred restaurant, when she saw something funny: a grocery store had posted a job listing on Indeed looking for a “culinary director.” Thankfully, she applied.

Kim and La Manna are now doing everything they can to keep up with demand. Before they were featured on Righteous Eats, they were selling maybe 200 burgers a day. But overnight, the number doubled. Then it doubled again. Most days, they sell around 600 to 1,000 burgers, but the most they’ve sold is 1,300. On days like that, they sell out and have to close early.

You don’t have to do the math to know the burgers aren’t making anyone rich. And for once, that might not matter.

The cafeteria at Jubilee Market is open from 6:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily. The burger is available from noon to 9 p.m.

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Monday, December 16, 2024

Author Daniel Bellino Zwicke

DANIEL BELLINO ZWICKE

NEW YORK ITALIAN WRITER

CIPRIANI DOWNTOWN

NEW YORK NY

BOOKS by DANIEL

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COOK LIKE FRANK

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Sunday, December 15, 2024

Delmonico's New York Steak

"DELMONICO'S"

Artist HELLEN BRADSHAW

DELMONICO'S

"AMAERICA'S OLDEST RESTAURANT"

In 1837, at the beginning of New York City’s evolution as the financial center of the world, the genesis of what would become a world-renowned culinary institution, Delmonico’s Restaurant, was set. A small shop selling classically prepared pastries, fine coffee and chocolate, bonbons, wines and liquors as well as Havana cigars was operated by the Delmonico brothers. Its success led them to purchase a triangular plot of land at the intersection of Beaver, William, and South William Streets where, in 1837, they opened the first fine dining restaurant in the country.

Delmonico’s offered an unheard-of luxury – the availability of private dining rooms (located on the third floor) where discriminate entertaining was the order of the day. The basement held the restauranteur’s treasure, the largest private wine cellar in the city, holding an impressive 1,000 bottles of the world’s finest wines. It was during these early years that Chef Alessandro Fellippini began to develop the restaurant’s culinary identity with the house special, Delmonico Steak.

Today, we continue to serve a prime cut of beef, prepared to the original specifications. It truly is the only authentic Delmonico Steak served in the United States. In 1862, Charles Ranhofer was named Chef de Cuisine inventing many original dishes during his time at our stoves. He is most noted for his innovative creations, Eggs Benedict, Baked Alaska, Lobster Newburg and Chicken A la Keene. These dishes remain on Delmonico’s menu today.

With a mission to make Delmonico’s Wall Street’s premiere fine dining Restaurant, the 56 Beaver Street location has been renovated to assume the opulence of its early years. Our welcoming portico remains supported by the original Pompeian pillars, our private dining rooms welcome the discreet, the wine cellar is filled to the rafters, and the cuisine, is, as promised in 1837, the finest the city has to offer.

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Friday, December 13, 2024

Ottavia Bourdain on Tony

OTTAVIA BUSSIA BORUDAIN & TONY

Octavia Bourdain on Tony

TONY & OTTAVIA BOURDAIN

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Thursday, December 12, 2024

Trump Time Magazine - man of The Year

DONALD TRUMP

TIME MAGAZINE

"MAN of The YEAR"

President-elect Donald Trump has been named Time Magazine's Person (Man) of the Year, the magazine announced Thursday, after he became only the second president in U.S. history to lose reelection and then reclaim the White House four years later.

"Trump's political rebirth is unparalleled in American history," Time said in the announcement. The magazine spoke to Trump ahead of the announcement, in which he told them he called his comeback "72 Days of Fury."

Trump beat out a short list of finalists for the title that included Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump's billionaire ally Elon Musk, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Catherine, Princess of Wales, aka Kate Middleton. (Musk was Time's choice in 2021.)

Trump rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange in Manhattan to mark the occasion. It was the first time the real estate mogul-turned-politician has rung the bell, according to the Associated Press. Former first lady Melania Trump appeared alongside him in Manhattan.

Trump was also Time's Man of Yhe Year in 2016, when he upset Washington's expectations by defeating former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the presidency.

"This is an honor, a tremendous honor," Trump said Thursday. "And I have to say, Time magazine, getting this honor for the second time. I think I like it better this time, actually, but we did a good job."

Trump is only the second president to have non-consecutive terms in office, the other being Grover Cleveland in the late 1800s.

The magazine outlined Trump's comeback during the wild 2024 campaign: how he cleared the GOP field to clinch the nomination; spent three weeks in May in a New York courtroom before ultimately being convicted; survived two assassination attempts; consolidated support from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Elon Musk; and overcame the swapping of the Democratic nominee.

"The election gave Trump political capital to address the sources of American discontent at home and abroad," Time's article said. "The question now is how he intends to spend it. By his own account, Trump will push the limits of presidential power and the law."

Trump told Time some of his plans for the upcoming administration, including defending his plan to use the military for mass deportations, not reintroducing family separation and planning to pardon people imprisoned for taking Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol "in the first hour ... maybe the first nine minutes."

Trump also told the magazine that he told former Rep. Matt Gaetz, Trump's first pick for attorney general who withdrew his name from consideration, that he didn't think "this is worth the fight."

Since 2000, Time has crowned the winner of the presidential race as the Person of the Year, giving it jointly to President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris in 2020. Former President Barack Obama won the title in 2008 and 2012, and former President George W. Bush held it as well in both 2004 and 2000. Bill Clinton took the title in 1993 and 1998 (sharing it with Kenneth Starr), George H.W. Bush in 1988, Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1983 and Jimmy Carter in 1976.

Time has named a Person of the Year. Originally the honour was called Man of the Year) every year since 1927, nearly a century ago. The magazine describes the title as not necessarily an honor or an award, but rather, says it picks based on a person's influence and importance in a given year.

Prior to Carter, other presidents who held the title were Richard Nixon in 1971 and 1972, Lyndon Johnson in 1964 and 1967, John F. Kennedy in 1961, Dwight Eisenhower in 1959 (he had also won the title in 1944 as he led Allied forces in Europe during World War II), Harry Truman in 1945 and 1948, and Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932, 1934 and 1941.

"MAN of The 20th CENTURY"

FRANCIS ALBERT SINATRA