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If you’ve ever sat at a table with ELV, Slapsie Maxie Jacobson and Al “Mad Man” Mancini, and happen to be there at the precise moment the food shows up, you know it’s a feeding frenzy that makes these guys look like contented cows. (You might say eating with the authors of Eating Las Vegas, Huntington Press, Publication Date November 2010 {we hope}, is as much fun as shooting monkeys in a barrel).
ELV note: As most of you know, ELV hearts the Big Apple. He lived just outside of it (in Danbury, CT) between 1985-1990, and never tires of its energy and its eateries. Below is a quick travelogue of our four days there last week, concentrating on — what else? — food and restaurants. Some misguided souls (like The Food Gal®) are under the impression there are things to do in New York City other than eat and drink, and for this they have our sympathies.
The trouble with eating Italian food is three or four days later you’re hungry again – George Miller
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Walking around Arthur Avenue in the Bronx with John Mariani is like touring the Vatican with the Pope. Eating there with him is even more fun.
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