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NY JapanTown Healty Food and Green Festival

Yesterday was the NY JapanTown Health Food and Green Festival. The festival took place in Midtown, on Madison Avenue between 43rd and 45th streets.

Promoting a healthy lifestyle using Japanese ingredients and cooking methods, the festival aims to enlighten New Yorkers about the many wholesome foods and flavors of Japan and how to incorporate them into American kitchens, ultimately increasing the understanding of Japanese culture through food.” – www.NYJapanTown.org

The festival featured a great handful of food vendors, as well as non-food vendors. The food vendors included a nice selection of local Japanese restaurants as well as international Japanese brands and food distributors. The event ran from 11am to 6pm, with schedule cooking demonstrations throughout the day sponsored by the Organization to Promote Japanese Restaurants Abroad (JRO). Continue reading ‘NY JapanTown Healty Food and Green Festival’

Food and Drinks at Lollapalooza 2010

… And that about wraps up my food adventures at this year’s Lollapalooza.

The culinary lineup featured about 30 food and beverage choices… and here are my stories…

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Mazzone’s Italian Ice @ Lollapalooza

Sometimes your appetite just gets totally destroyed by the hot, sticky weather. We’ve drank many cans of sweet tea. We already grabbed a smoothie. What about nice sweet, cold treat for dessert? – Italian Ice, it is!!

Over at Mazzone’s Italian Ice, they were offering a list of Italian ice, dessert crepes, and gelato, each for $5. The available Italian Ice flavors included Lemon, Mango, Blue Raspberry, and Strawberry. There were Chocolate banana split and Nutella dessert crepes, as well as Chocolate and Hazelnut gelato.
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