Food Porn in New York

Taste Of Times Square food festival brought appetites of every ethnicity and walk of life together
 as one greedy mob!

Did someone say food?

Aww yea  - festivals like this trigger the fat girl in me. Taste Of Times Square New York is a foodie’s dream come true!   To be surrounded by a smorgasbord of more than 50 of Midtown’s best restaurants offering food samples for $2 certainly encompasses many of my food porn fantasies. And from the looks of the crowd clearly I'm not the only one. 

Mmm steak frite in a sushi roll.

Asiago baguette filled with grilled pork and white Cavelli beans and fresh coleslaw.
Restaurant Barbetta's take on "Pork & Beans"

So I grabbed a couple of co-workers and headed to 46th & Broadway were the food fest kicked off.

@ $1 per ticket I promptly scooped up around $25 worth plus the bonus tickets I got using my Times Square Alliance card - which is free when you sign up @ the Time Square visitor’s center. Clutching my tix with a death grip and panting like a lap dog I shamelessly pilfered through numerous food stations featuring eats from some of the best restaurants in and around Times Square.

Mmm I recognize those tasty morsels 
Those ribs & shrimp are from Ca Va Brasserie another 2011 favorite and a 2012 fave as far as I'm concerned

There was alligator, beef cheek, steak frite, sushi rolls, blue berry and pineapple cheesecake, ribs, sliders, parfaits, empanada’s, paella, cheese steaks made of filet mignon, crab cakes, smoked salmon, pasta, dumplings and gobs of gorgeous gook-de-gobble. Yes a fair is a veritable smorgasbord-orgasbord 

Caviar and cream in a pancake...For 2tix  I'm trying everythang!

Throughout the fair there were musical acts like the Ebony Hillbillies, and all black, blue-grass country music group (didn't know those existed) And later when I could barely walk, I sat for a spell, not realizing I was being roped into a free drumming lesson with about forty other fest goers sponsored by Drum Cafe. And I've concluded that I am a drumming prodigy.

Chicken-pot-pies and crab cakes @ O'Lunney's
One of Taste of Times Square 2011 favorites (at least that's what the pamphlet said) 

 Alas when the food stands (and my tix) finally ran out. A fellow drummer & I stumbled away in a food coma. But not before we spotted what appeared to be Snoop Dog slinking through the crowd nearly unnoticed & chomping on some local fare? Sorry folks I can't verify it so we'll just say "a rapper of sorts". Yours truly  was too comatose to whip out the camera. Plus he was dodging fans like the plague.  I guess everybody enjoys a lil food porn.

  

Finally I know some of you may be thinking, "But how tha hell are you gonna  talk about global issues and injustices on one blog, then go all food porn, binge eating on another?  My answer to that....I'm a product of my environment.
   
Now look at the damn pics! and click here for a list of all the participating restaurants.

It's never too soon to start breaking them in!  

Listen, I too ate the Duck lettuce wrap and can totally understand this situation!

Her: Mmm this alligator meat is delectable!
Him: Ooo look they got beef cheek @ the next station



 She wasn't better than me... but she was for darn sure the cutest drummer of them all!

Him: I told you to get your own didn't I - didn't I?!
Her: C'mon I just want a taste