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Animals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1ntiRKW_Yw When walking down New Utrecht Avenue, if you listen closely, you can hear the unmistakeable squawking of live turkeys. The racket emits from a tiny shop near 81st Street, right across the street from the now-shuttered Waldbaums supermarket [/key-food-renews-interest-new-utrecht-waldbaums/], In Bensonhurst, there
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Max Raja, the owner of Max’s Chicken & Seafood at 967 Coney Island Avenue.Thanks to neighbor Brent Cox, we found out that Max’s Chicken & Seafood [http://www.maxschickenandseafood.com/] opened this past Friday at 967 Coney Island Avenue, by Newkirk Avenue, in the space that previously
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Photo by Daniel X MatzAfter the city Department of Health closed Famous Pita [/blog/food/doh-shuts-famous-pita-operating-expired-food-service-establishment-permit] , at the corner of Coney Island Avenue and Newkirk Avenue, for operating with an expired food service establishment permit earlier this month, neighbors noticed the windows were papered up – and now we’ve learned
Bite of the Week
Since Wangs opened about a month ago [/blog/food/wangs-brings-asian-spin-on-chicken-to-union-street], the tiny take-out joint has been serving up an Asian spin on Southern chicken at 671 Union Street near 4th Avenue to a lot of enthusiastic customers — so many people have been stopping by to try it out, in fact,
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Did your feathered friend fly the coop? A woman named Helen found a chicken nearby yesterday, and she’s hoping that the owner, or someone who has the space to take the clucker in, can help. She posted to the Just Food City Chicken Meetup board [http://www.meetup.com/
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In other news, Concerned Citizens of Greenwood Heights reported earlier this week that a chicken [http://www.ccgreenwoodhts.com/chicken-ala-kings/] made a break from one of the local slaughterhouses, and found herself on 23rd street. Within 24 hours, the awesome Sean Casey [http://www.nyanimalrescue.org/] came and relocated her
breeds
Think all chickens are like the ones bock, bock bocking on Old MacDonald’s farm? Think again. Last month, South Slope photographer Tamara Staples published her second book, The Magnificent Chicken [http://prettychicken.com/The-Magnificent-Chicken], which spotlights some of the more unique breeds of poultry. Tamara sat down with us
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It seems like every paper got their feathers ruffled over the weekend about the eight new egg-laying chickens at the Warren/St. Marks Community Garden [http://wsgarden.org]. The hens were brought to the garden earlier this month from their warm weather home on Governor’s Island, with plans to
Butchers
Photo via Wikimedia Commons [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chicken_portrait.jpg] Nothing says autumn in New York like crisp temperatures, falling leaves and…chicken beheading? That’s right, Park Slope, if you’re traveling up to New Paltz this October for some tasty apples, why not plan on
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Photo: Erica ShermanTHE BITE [/tag/the-bite/]: Mexican food is sprouting, slowly but surely, in the neighborhood. And they’re taking an interesting path into the food scene. Don’t look for traditional “restaurants.” Look instead to the back of bodegas, like El Jarochito [ /el-jarochito-t…nitas-the-bite/ ], or, strangely enough, in doughnut
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Walk into any supermarket and you’ll see pre-cooked rotisserie chickens lined up in neat little plastic domes like some kind of dystopian shrine to deceased poultry. If you’re going to be a real home cook, the first thing one must realize is that these ready-to-eat birds, while convenient,
bensonhurst recipes
During the summer months, many kitchens simply get too hot to use the oven or even the stove. That’s why this is actually a great time to start eating lighter, healthier and delicious meals made with a minimal amount of cooking that can be done well in advance. Here’