BY EMILY FAITH As natives of the Western New York region, we celebrate our blue-collar, working-class surroundings with such culinary delights as the garbage plate, the white hot, and that darling neighboring-city treat, the Buffalo wing. As a child I was shuffled between Rochester and Buffalo, and raised not far from the original spot where […]
Dining
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ANNUAL MANUAL ’10: Eating Around the World
 [ DINING ] BY SUSIE HUME With budgets tighter than ever, it’s unlikely that most of us will be filling our passports with too many new international stamps this year. And yet, if you’ve long been wanting to travel the globe to experience new cultures and — more importantly to this writer — new cuisines, […]
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Some like it hots
Dave Miran has been on the streets for almost 22 years. A Rochester native, Miran is the proprietor of Dave’s Sidewalk Café, a hot dog cart — or “mobile vending unit,” in Rochester City Code parlance — that has operated on the corner of Court Street and St. Mary’s Place for the past eight years. […]
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DISH ’08: New York Wine & Culinary Center
 [ PROFILE ] It was a chilly day in late April when I sat down with the New YorkWine & CulinaryCenter’s new executive chef, Carlo Peretti. Peretti had been on the job for only about four hours, but he seemed excited by the prospect ahead of him: local asparagus was only a couple of weeks […]
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ANNUAL MANUAL ’08: Dining
Just about everyone loves Chinese food -or Thai, Japanese, and Korean for that matter – and our workplaces and home kitchen junk drawers overflow with little multicolored condiment packets and chopsticks. The list below is by no means exhaustive, but rather a starting point for a diner’s journey through Asia by way of Greater Rochester. […]
