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Food Cues in Manhattan

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Cheryl and I ventured out into the city on Saturday, which we were planning on doing all week. On the ferry ride over, we decided to just wander through Central Park, and later enter a Broadway lottery for Matilda the musical, two things Cheryl hadn’t done yet. We walked around Central Park for about three hours, going the furthest up and back we could in that time.

We lost the lottery. That was sad, of course, and Cheryl still hasn’t seen a Broadway show (this weekend, hopefully.) But we decided to do cross another thing off of our NYC bucket list: Junior’s. People talk about Junior’s constantly, it’s the typical tourist spot. And it’s right across from the Shubert Theatre, so the second we saw it, we both said we were hungry.

Junior’s is famous for its hot chocolate and cheesecake, so can you guess what we ordered for dessert? Hot chocolate and cheesecake.

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Look at all that whipped cream.

Are tourists’ hunger in New York City affected by how famous a restaurant is? There are probably thousands of restaurants in the city, but Junior’s is popular, Cheryl and I were hungry, and it was cold. In the end, it was an AMAZING choice, but it made me wonder why we made that choice. Were we actually hungry, or did we just want to live out the tourist dream?

Delicious Orchards

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Last Saturday, my family and I went to a place called Delicious Orchards in Colts Neck, New Jersey. We go there every fall with the sole intention of buying apple pies. Delicious Orchards is a country food market that is visited by over 2.5 million people a year. It includes a bakery, produce section, dairy section, seafood, organic, and even candy section. Whenever we go, I always go straight to the bakery section for the pies. Sometimes I just stand there and watch the decisions people make on what pie to get. There are many options through a selection of a variety of flavors including cherry, blueberry, peach, apple, apple crumb, and pecan.

I watched as several customers on line shouted to family members to help them with their decision. They would debate back and forth over flavor choice. What I found interesting was one couple and their exchange. The man asked the woman her flavor preference of which pie to pick. When she replied sugar free apple, he made a face of disgust. He said, “Sugar free? Who would eat anything sugar free, that’s gross? Why bother eating it them?” I’m sure that’s the reaction most of us would have as well. It’s amazing how much we rely on sugar to enhance the taste of our food and the thought of eliminating it is ludicrous. It appears that the only consumer that would opt for a sugar free pie would be someone who is suffering from a health condition that warrants the choice. Would it be so terrible to eliminate some sugar from our diet even if we weren’t forced to?

Schmackery’s Cookie Shop and the Columbian Exchange

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On Friday, Anna and my roommate, Vanessa, and I went to the city to see an off Broadway play. After, Anna suggested we go to her favorite cookie shop Schmackary’s.

6She had told me previously that they made gluten free cookies. This made me super excited because every since moving to Wagner I haven’t really been able to have a lot of deserts or baked goods. So we made our way to the cookie shop where I bought the last remaining gluten free cookie called the “Yogi Bare”.

The “Yogi Bare” consists of gluten free oats, peanut butter, applesauce, cranberries, almonds, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seed, raisins, maple syrup, and cinnamon.  When I 1searched for, and found, the ingredient list online before we arrived it got me thinking back to Dr. Smith’s class a week ago when she brought in the Dutch Spice cookies. This was like my o2wn version.

Like the ones in class I dissected the ingredients and tried to figure out where each ingredient came from. Using the Colombian Exchange image Dr. Smith had in class, I found out that the oats and sugar came from the old world while most of the other ingredients were from the new 7world. Just like the Dutch Spice Cookies, my cookie puts into prospect how global our world became after the age of explorations. Without the exchanges, those cookies would have never existed. Overall, the cookie was amazing and makes me excited to try more gluten free options in New York City.