"one of the most beautiful, well-staffed restaurants in the city, it struck me why Captain Bonespurs considers America a shithole: The richest, "powerfulest" country in the world lost the Vietnam war, while he hid it out acquiring STDs. He's still big mad, but we the sane majority get to revel in wildly expanded and enriched food horizons. We indulged in that lunch, after all, after a stop at the new Tashkent shop,"
"+ it's very revealing that Black chefs are getting more and more headlines for their phenomenal food while you never hear a peep about the slattern's cuisine: Slovenian. The one restaurant specializing in it near us, which always looked more like a ruble laundry than an eating destination, faded away and was replaced by just another Greek joint. I mean. It opened during #trumpandemic, after the racist lost, and sans streetery. Clearly too big to fail."
"And the other night we walked out of the phenomenal "Natchez" documentary on the unsettled Civil War and around the corner to Laliko, for fabulous Georgian food (cheese bread with mint, eggplant rolls with pomegranate seeds, juicy pork kebabs with green plum sauce) and wines. One of which, the charming bartender said, would hit like a blow to the head. One racist xenophobe's shithole is everyone else's eating wonderland."
A lunch at La Dong off Union Square showcased excellent service and food, including a recommended super-generous crab fried rice lunch special that comes with either a well-dressed salad or lively mushroom soup at no extra charge. A stop at a new Tashkent shop offered Uzbek staples and affordable tea and canned tuna. Post-Soviet migrations and immigrant restaurants have broadened American culinary offerings, visible in Georgian dishes at Laliko and diverse wines after viewing the "Natchez" documentary. Political xenophobia contrasts with an enriched eating landscape, while Slovenian cuisine remains largely overlooked even as Black chefs gain attention.
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