What signature NYC, edible goodies do you recommend that I bring home w/me to my friends and family back home in Chicago? The only thing I could think of that might travel well are black %26amp; white cookies. Thanks!
Edibles for friends %26amp; family back home?
Sarabeth%26#39;s jam and marmalade is very good.
Edibles for friends %26amp; family back home?
If you%26#39;re currently a NYC area resident but had to move, what would you stock up on before you moved or what would you have your friends ship to you? Or if you%26#39;re a recent visitor, what do you miss the most and wish you had brought home w/ you? Suggestions for logistically practical edibles?
our friends who have moved to west coast always ask us to bring bagels.. we get them fresh the morning we leave and we drive everyone on the plane crazy.
and you are right about black%26amp;white cookies, our family who moved to VA complains about bakeries down there.. we always bring b%26amp;w cookies, apple turnovers, crumb cake for them %26amp; all their neighbors.
Bagels!! Bialys!! Knishes!!
Get a dozen of each at:
Ess-a-Bagels
http://ess-a-bagel.com/
Kossar%26#39;s Bialys
http://kossarsbialys.com/
Yonnah Schimmel%26#39;s knishes
http://yonahschimmel.com/
All these products can tolerate a day of travel in sealed bags, and they freeze very well. These are the standard ';can you bring me back'; items for me and my traveling friends.
I%26#39;d also suggest one or two bottles of NY State wines. The Finger Lakes and Long Island wineries produce some lovely beverages. Go to Astor Wines on Lafayette, south of 8th Street, and ask for the some NY recos. (And the bagels and bialys will make nice packing material.)
For the gourmand: Wolfgang%26#39;s and Peter Luger%26#39;s sell their steak sauces (might only be at their restaurants?). Fat Witch Browies at Chelsea Market are amazing! Jacques Torres and Li-Lac make premier gourmet chocolates!
Or, you can make a food basket of these selections usually found at any of our local larger supermarkets, such as Fairway: Sylvia%26#39;s soul food products, Entenman%26#39;s chocolate chip cookies, a six-pack of Brooklyn Beer, Dr. Brown%26#39;s Cel-Ray soda, Golden Krust Jamaican beef patties (frozen), Manhattan Special Coffee Soda and Streitz matzah!
Great, thank you for all the quick and thorough ideas! Now I have a huge variety to choose from!
Great, thank you for all the quick and thorough ideas! Now I have a huge variety to choose from!
P.S. What are knishes?
Not everybody likes all the ';NY'; food so depends on your friends%26#39; taste. I don%26#39;t know if b %26amp; w cookies would travel that well (I%26#39;ve never been all that enthralled and they get dry quickly). But if you have friends who like chocolate, there%26#39;s lots of good chocolate here (Jacques Torres) Here%26#39;s a list of places
鈥bout.com/od/shopping/tp/best_chocolate.htm
Here%26#39;s more ideas (although 2nd ave deli is closed)
鈥bout.com/od/鈥ood_gifts.htm
Fatwitch brownies
http://www.fatwitch.com/
Junior%26#39;s cheesecake
Payard patisserie
We brought back bottles of New York State wine. I don%26#39;t have the name of the wine shop with me but I%26#39;ll try to remember to look it up at home tonight. We stumbled across a wine shop that offfered wine tasting, I think it was in SoHo. For a small fee you could sample three different wines. We told the sales person that we knew nothing about New York wines as we were from Canada and have never seen any in our liquor stores. He asked us what types of wine we liked and suggested ones for us to try. It was great fun and he was very knowledgeable about his products. We each picked one we liked to bring home. It was a great souvenir although I admit I had a hard time breaking down and opening the bottle, I wish I would have brought more than one. I still do have the empty bottle as a souvenir though.
Zabar%26#39;s coffee! I travel international w/it...can%26#39;t be beat...Most likely the first thing I%26#39;d ask to be sent if I moved out of NY (a Zabar%26#39;s gift basket w/some bagels along with that coffee would be great too!)
Enjoy all!
sktraveller - I%26#39;m glad you enjoyed our local wines, and thank you for validating my suggestion. ;o) What a great souvenier!
whiz - I agree with you - I actually don%26#39;t like b%26amp;w cookies all that much, either. Thanks for the webpage for Fat Witch. (forgot it.)
pucca - What is a knish? It%26#39;s basically a big Rubik%26#39;s-cube-sized hunk of starchy goodness!
First of all, a kinish is pronounced ';kuh-NISH.';. You say the ';k'; sound, like in the word ';connect';.
Inside a thin crust is a hot, hefty filling such as kasha (barley groats), seasoned mashed potatoes, or mashed potatoes mixed with either brocolli, shredded pastrami, cabbage or spinach. The most recent innovation in the knish world was sweet potato filling.
Personally, IMHO, the best knishes are from Knish-Nosh, from right here on Queens Boulevard, but Yonah%26#39;s are ok, too. ;o) If you want a Knish-Nosh knish, you can get them at their new little stand inside Central Park, around 105th Street and 5th Avenue.
http://knishnosh.com/
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