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Soul Food restaurants - adapt or go the way of the dodo

By Rab Bakari • Aug 6th, 2008 • Category: Food

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The New York Times picked up on an article about the African-American cuisine known around the world as ‘Soul Food’. The assessment is that this cuisine may become a rarity in the overtly African-descended neighborhood of Harlem, New York USA.
Read here
Soul Food in Harlem



FESTAC - New Nigerian Restaurant in NYC

By Rab Bakari • May 29th, 2008 • Category: Food

New Nigerian Restaurant in New York City. A rare sight indeed!
FESTAC GRILL - 263 Hendrix Street,
East New York, Brooklyn - NY 11207-2623
+1-718-627-5151

Photo by Flickr User -EOS Chaos
While the Senegalese have boldly opened semi-upscale restaurants in Harlem and Clinton Hill, complete with annotated menus, and the Ghanaians have established numerous small groceries and cafés [...]



Where can I eat a vegetarian dish in New York City?

By Rab Bakari • Apr 30th, 2008 • Category: Food

I haven’t eaten four-legged meat or two-legged; winged birds since 1990. But I do eat certain creatures from the ocean and other water bodies. All of that is supplemented with a healthy dose of things that come from living things with roots. Plants! So.. I never never considered myself a ‘Vegetarian’ or that other awkward [...]



The Best Ice Cream? Sample Ben & Jerry’s or Baskin-Robbins

By Rab Bakari • Apr 29th, 2008 • Category: Events, Food

Although..I do not eat meat; that never stopped me from enjoying some of the finer products of a cow. Namely; the dairy milk products of baked mozzarella cheese on a pizza or ice cream.
Ice Cream is always associated with children. This must be a European thing. As far as I know; Ice cream is a [...]



Eat at Your Own Risk! - 10 dangerous foods

By Rab Bakari • Apr 16th, 2008 • Category: Food

Contrary to belief; many Americans think that the exotics food they may encounter in an urban setting populated with immigrants from the far reaches of the Globe are poison to them. So toss aside the poison Blowfish or that roach that feel in your sauce! If people read the statistics and kept up with basic [...]



The Next Sushi … according to GOOD Magazine

By Rab Bakari • Mar 17th, 2008 • Category: Food

Adam Leith Gollner and Illustrationist; Robert A. Di Ieso, Jr. pull together a list of the ‘next big food items’ to tug at America’s heart for Good Magazine.
Do you recognize any of these names? Dosas; Mongolian Hot Pot; Offal; Bibimbap or Pupusas? Please read on by clicking on the the link.
The Next Sushi



Allow Me To Introduce Mysef! My Name is … Rab!

By Rab Bakari • Jan 3rd, 2008 • Category: African Cup of Nations GHANA 2008, DJaying, Features, Food, Graffiti, Lead Story, Music, Politics & Culture, Sci-Fi, Tech, Uncategorized

I decided to make this my first post. I would like to introduce myself . I am Rab Bakari. Connections to USA and Ghana. I am a Tech; Sci-Fi; Apple; Football (the game that really uses ‘the foot’); Graffiti; Music and Food enthusiast! I am a child of the golden years of the Hip Hop [...]