The plant may be a key ingredient in diet-friendly “miracle noodles,” but its bouncy, jelly-like texture is capable of enhancing soups, fruit jellies, boba, and so much more.
The New Yorker restaurant critic talks deadlines, linguistics, rent hikes, saving NYC, and why it was so very terrible to fish for your dinner (inside a fancy NYC restaurant, that is).
While the name Zabar is most associated with a delicatessen empire based on New York’s Upper West Side, it’s Eli Zabar (the most punk rock of all in the Zabar clan) who has the most interesting story to tell.