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Plus, in Food Stuff, there is a featured wine sorbet feature... this harks back to a week or two ago where someone asked about alcohol in ice cream, right?

I love the Edy's slow churned ice cream. I recently held an ice cream tasting for a fun night with the ladies. I set up a blind tasting of 10 vanilla ice creams, ranging in full fat to low fat. I chose the Edy's as my winner, and it came in second in the overall tasting (first was Dreamery's vanilla). I look forward to trying the new Haagen Daaz "light" style ice cream

i do NOT understand why everyone insists you can't get a good taco in NYC
it's just STUPID
there are many places to get decent tacos (and these are just ones within walking distance of my apt)
Mercadito on Ave B springs to mind
as does Barrio Chino on Orchard and my all time favorite El Maguey y la Tuna on Attorney St
not to talk about restaurants (sorry Sara Kate) but it totally peeves me to no end....
and if i hear one more person extol the greatness of a fish taco, i might just keel over dead
i've had them, they're not bad, but seriously, get over it!
there's much better food out there!
*rant over*

Ann,

For those of us who grew up in taco-country (I am a 4th generation Southern Californian with Mexican genes in my make-up, granted, a few generations back), I strongly feel that the chances of finding a good taco in NYC are slim (which is what I said in the post, not impossible, but slim). If you have been to Los Angeles, or San Francisco, for example, you can find one within a five minute walk usually with no problem. So I stand my ground. You're right; there are good tacos in NYC, but I do believe they're harder to find. And usually, by the way, a lot more expensive.

Those tacos in the article just looks overly complicated, as if Martha Stewart were to make them.

I'm in the opinion that the basic taco (and basic is best) from a taco truck should contain only these things: two layers of fresh tortillas, some kind of seasoned meat, salsa, onions and cilantro. That's it. Maybe some sliced radishes and a lime wedge on the side.

Should look like the image in my link.

yeah, i know, i hear it all the time ;-)
i guess its the way Anglenos feel when all the east coasters complain about how they can't find, i dunno: a good slice, a good cheesesteak, Dunkin Donuts coffee or whatever else exiled east coasters complain about when the move to the west coast

i've had tacos in LA, San Fran, and yes, even Mexico and i have to be honest the one's I've found here in the city are just as good... i feel like a lot of taco bemoaners just enjoy moaning more than looking for a good taco!

and i completely agree with WBGuy, less is more on a taco... but i'd add a nice schmear of guac (check out the piccie attached to my name, its my fave NYC taco, does it pass the test?)

like i said, its a pet peeve, much like how it grates me when people say they're from Upstate when they're actually from Westchester :-)

That NYT article is gross as hell with details but I still wish they had instead translated the recent Japanese article about how they made fake food that equalled and sometimes surpassed the real thing and that the unsold foods were fed to pigs that would give birth to stillborn piglets or mutated piglets. That article sounds like it would be right up my alley.

I just made my first two quasi-gelatos (well, no eggs nor cream) and one turned out very rich tasting and the other one turned out ice milky. The former would have been ice milky as well but I was too lazy to get the skim milk before I turned on the machine (for the very first time! lalala!!) and I threw in a can of ... evaporated milk. Then I trotted downstairs to get the milk. I threw in a ton of vanilla in the ice milk one to see if I could fake that creaminess with a flavor in place of fat. Vanilla improved it possibly saved it from full ice milkiness that only I could love (I used to make giant skim milk "fraps" at work in between making decadent shakes.)

Am I alone in finding many store ice creams now inedible even and especially the luxee ones. Also , I always read the ingredients for ice cream because of that old Breyer's tv commercial "cara whatta??"

I adore tacos, and I too once thought that NYC had no good mexican food to be found. And then I moved to Queens. Mexican folks LIVE in queens--and they cook and shop and sell food there like nobody's business.

There is a fantastic taco joint on 38th and Broadway in astoria that has the cheapest, tastiest, bestest tacos, hands down. another place can be found in an old greek diner, now owned by what appear to be mexican cowboys, on 30th ave and grand (right under the N/w tracks.)

I do not mean to introduce restaurants into a thread on cooking stuff at home, but it should be mentioned that cheap taco places abound OUTSIDE of manhattan. And when you can buy the bestest, you don't really want to cook 'em up yourself. Especially varieties like 'barbacoa'...