The Bronx
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on 2022.01.127 Places
“What you should know is that the Bronx is big. Really big. And that it’s a patchwork of ethnic enclaves, a cross‑section of the whole world, every immigrant group you could think of.”
188 Bakery Cuchifritos
Puerto Rican restaurant · Fordham
Bourdain ate: cuchifritos (deep-fried pig parts), morcilla (blood sausage), plantains, rice and beans. Sidekick: Justin Fornal, aka Baron Ambrosia, Bronx culinary ambassador, documentarian, and the television personality behind such shows as the Cooking Channel’s The Culinary Adventures of Baron Ambrosia.
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Liebman’s Deli
Kosher restaurant · Riverdale
Bourdain had: hot pastrami, chopped liver on toast, potato pancakes with applesauce, pickles, Dr. Brown’s Cel-Ray (celery-flavored soda). Sidekick: Lloyd Ultan: Bronx historian at the Bronx County Historical Society.
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