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Giano – Two-faced East Village God

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

Giano
126 E 7th St.
(between 1st and Ave. A)
New York, NY 10009
212-673-7200
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Giano takes its name from the Roman God Janus.  Traditionally, Janus was worshipped at the beginning of the harvest season, making my recent visit to Giano on a lovely fall evening extraordinarily prescient.  Janus is a god of transition, the god of gates and doors and beginnings and endings, and he is more than adequately honored by Giano’s stunning culinary homage. (more…)

Lord of the Flies Re-enactment this Sunday!

Friday, September 18th, 2009

Goodbye little piggy.

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Il Buco
47 Bond Street (between Lafayette & Bowery)
New York, NY 10012
212.533.1932
www.ilbuco.com

Il Buco’s annual Sagra del Maiale (festival of the pig) is a neighborhood tradition commemorating the Autumn Equinox, when day and night are of equal length, along with our anniversary. Chef Ignacio Mattos and staff rise before the sun and start a bonfire burning right on Bond Street, where they lovingly slow-roast a 200 lb Heritage Ossabaw Pig. Neighbors, friends and family alike line up early for a buffet of all things pig, including porchetta panini, apple pork sausages and apple ricotta fritters. This feast inevitably leaves the crowd with only one regret…that it only happens once a year! (Oh, darn!)

September 26th is Oysterfest at Ulysses

Friday, September 18th, 2009

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