Katz's - Biggest... Order... Ever

Take-out from Katz's today for lunch today. Clients visiting from Michigan - gotta provide the real New York experience. What does that experience taste like...?

7 Pastrami sandwiches on rye with mustard
4 Corned beef on rye w/ mustard
1 Reuben (for the Michigan client... surprised?)
3 Knishes
5 Dr. Browns Soda (cream, black cherry, cel-ray)
1 Large tub of Pickles

Grand Total - $218

One of the guys here literally choked when he found out he was eating a $15 sandwich.

Only in New York: International Pickle Festival

What an unbelievable event. Crowds by the hundreds turned out for the NYC International Pickle Day at the LES summer home of Shakespeare in the Parking Lot (one of the absolute most surprising performances I've ever stumbled upon in the city). waiting in line to taste pickled stringbeans, beats, peppers, kimchi, kosher dills, new dills, garlic pickles, spicy garlic pickles, horseradish pickles, honeymustard pickles, thunder pickles and more.

Learned a few intersting things too:

Do you know what makes new pickles unique? They are brined in salt-water as opposed to vinegar.

Also - I never heard of these before: Physalis or "Husk Cherries". I bought a pound - they're fantastic. Like a tomato meets cherry with a juicy, nutty taste. Apparently there is only one or two farmers in the city that actually sell them. As Molly says, spread the word about the husk cherries so more farmers will grow them and bring them here for us to enjoy.