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Should you tip for take-out?

  • No: All they had to do was put my food in containers! (70%, 14 Votes)
  • Yes: At least a dollar or two-- it must be a pain to package all that food. (30%, 6 Votes)

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August 2, 2010

Culinography: Ketchup Packet Vodka (TLV)

by erin

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As if little $1 yogurt cups of vodka to-go weren’t amazing enough, I have also found oversize ketchup type packets of vodka at corner stores in Tel Aviv! These are also $1 and will fit in by beach bag even easier. I just pick up a bottle
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July 23, 2010

Fridgin’ Out: International HOT Sauce Party

by kayoko

Fridgin' Out: Gourmet Spice Cabinet (BK)

My very first apartment in NYC was in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, in 2002. Although the exact area has been redubbed today by developers as “South Park Slope”, it was pretty grimy back before the hipsters swarmed in.

The famous
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July 19, 2010

Culinography: The Shouk (TLV)

by erin

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A shouk is a big outdoor market that sells not only produce but meat, cheese, bread, spices, housewares, clothes, shoes and pretty much anything you can think of. The shouk in Tel Aviv is amazing and much cheaper than a grocery store.
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July 16, 2010

Packaging Whore: The Salumi Cone @ Boccalone (SF)

by kayoko

Boccalone (SF)

Mortadella, prociutto cotto, and prociutto crudo slices… in a CONE.

This is how we’ll be eating meat in the future. How about steak (medium rare please!) in a cone? Hot dog in a cone? Slab bacon in a cone?

Hmmm… I think I’m onto something. This reminds me of…
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July 12, 2010

Culinography: Vodka To-Go (TLV)

by erin

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One of the many funny little things I love about Israel is that in almost every convenient or corner store, you can find little cups of vodka to go. In the same place you would find your diet coke in the mini-fridge near the check-out, you will find these portable
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April 30, 2010

Fridgin’ Out: Archway, London

by Sakura

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My first post for Umamimart and it’s going to look like a confession of an ultra lazy cook. My mother did not bring me up to subsist on ready-meals and instant ramen. I used to do a lot more adventurous cooking as a
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March 19, 2010

SF Underground Market

by kayoko

Just got these pics by She-Rene, who I ran into outside at the SF Underground Market a couple weeks ago. I confess I never made it inside where the market was being held. I showed up to this discreet warehouse, on a side street in the SOMA district,
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March 9, 2010

Culinography: Millport Dairy Butter

by erin

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This butter is fresh off the farm and totally off the hook. I bought it from Lancaster, PA (Mennonite?) farmers of Millport Dairy, at the Union Square Greenmarket. It’s big– about 5 inches in diameter– and only $5.

March 1, 2010

Sunrise Mart is Not a Porn Shop (NYC)

by kayoko

Sunrise Mart (NYC)

Sunrise Mart is a tiny little Japanese market in the East Village with a distinct, and authentically claustrophobic Tokyo feel. Located right above St. Mark’s Bookshop, the seedy porn shop-esque entrance is easy to miss. I have spent a lot of time here.

You’ve
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February 3, 2010

Ball-and-Chained to Berkeley

by yoko

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After a 4-year, 4-month hiatus, I am back in Berkeley. Robotland (a.k.a. Tokyo) was good to me, but finding myself shuffled in line at the Berkeley Bowl between one of these, and Zack de la Rocha’s doppelganger on
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