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I
think I am on to the marketing secret of DiPalo’s, the venerable Italian Market
in New York’s rapidly vanishing Little Italy.
I’ll get to that but first a little about Little Italy. It’s getting littler all the time, crushed on
all sides. Squished by a vibrant and
growing Chinatown on its eastern and western flanks, gentrified out of
existence by uber-trendy NoLita (North Of Little Italy) neighborhood, the
latest census data told us what we already feared. There is not one native, born-in-Italy
Italian in the entire zip code that encompasses what’s left of New York’s
Little Italy. For shame!
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I
frequently take part in surveys about where I eat and what I eat and when. It goes with the territory when you write
about food. Inevitably,
there’s a question about how long ago I’ve visited a fast food restaurant. I invariably answer “Never” because I gave up
fast food over ten years ago. That’s
also when we ousted as much processed food from our diet as we possibly
could. While I am still not making my
own Ketchup or Mayonnaise, I’ve been very successful in keeping things fresh
around here. Then how do I explain my
attachment to Bay Burger, the Sag Harbor Hamburger Emporium at 1742
Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike Sag Harbor, NY 11963 (Phone:
631.899.3915)? In certain circles
it would be classified as Fast Food faster than you can say McDonald’s. But it isn’t. Not by a long shot. For one thing, have you ever been to a
McDonald’s that operates as a Farmer’s Market on Saturdays all winter? Does your local McD’s have jazz nights every
Thursday? Does your fast food restaurant
make its own ice cream with the fantastic tagline: “It’s from the Hamptons so
you know it’s rich”? And one summer they even made the most incredible ham sandwich. ( I do hope they bring that one back.) And how is the food
there ?
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