Hard-Boiled Eggs.

Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam. Hard-boiled eggs. New Grand Buffet, 34-45 48th Street, Long Island City, 4 March 2010.

These are surprisingly hard to find in my own neighborhood. I have gone to virtually all of our many supermarkets and not one offers whole or halved hard-boiled eggs. See more of my pictures of this particular trip to Long Island City, as well as of other things.

Previously

• “Religious Experience at the Ambassador Program,” 17 March 2010.

Related (updated 4 July 2011)

• stars_unlimited, apparently a.k.a. スターズ笠間 (stars_kasama), “Hot Rod Custom Show 2010,” Stars!, 5 October 2010. Use of my photograph without attribution. (Reproduced at webcitation.org/5zwSDE3hk.)

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Cake-off chitchat.

For those of you who asked, here is the surreptitious video of my telling friends about the Passover pastries. The conversation took place at an event called the “cake-off” in the Woodside apartment of a friend from the Ambassador Program and Jackson Heights Food Group. I was about as stereotypically Jewish as I can imagine being: discussing Jewish cuisine while coincidentally wearing a Hadassah (ההסתדרות הציונית הדסה) t-shirt.

Video by judibean. “Cake-off” at Stella’s place, Woodside, 17 April 2010.

Previously

• “Passover sweets,” 6 May 2010.
• “From Facebook Wall to Surface Web, April 2009,” 19 May 2009.

Related

• Sara Markel‐González, “Eating Our Way Through The Menu at Red Ribbon Bakeshop,” Serious Eats, 26 April 2010.

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Passover sweets.

Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam. The best Passover pastries I’d ever had in my life. Community Passover seder (ליל הסדר של פסח), the Jewish Center of Jackson Heights, 37-06 77th Street, Jackson Heights, 29 March 2010.

As I was later captured on video telling friends, these and others consumed that night were probably the best Passover pastries I’d ever had in my life. See more of my pictures of the community Passover seder at the Jewish Center of Jackson Heights.

Previously

• “From Facebook Wall to Surface Web, Apr. 2009,” 19 May 2009. Passover content.

Related

• Chap James Day, Twitter, 29 Mar. 2010; Google Buzz, 30 Mar. 2010.
• My pictures on Facebook.

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Standard and Sea.

Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam. Standard and Sea. Sea, 835 Washington Street, and Standard Hôtel, 848 Washington Street, Greenwich Village/Meatpacking District, 21 April 2010.

My dear, old friend Derek had plans to celebrate his birthday in both of these venues, and my attempt to capture them in one picture turned out pretty well. Later I would speculate on Facebook: Because the Thai language has no śr consonant cluster, the word ศรี is not pronounced śrī as it is in Sanskrit (श्री) but instead as sī. I would think this is more likely the reason the restaurant is named “Sea” than because of any connection to the sea.

See more of my pictures of that night celebrating Derek’s birthday.

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