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We’re obsessed with Hot Bread Kitchen, the nonprofit bakery that offers culinary training (and a place to cook!) for immigrants and low-income New Yorkers. We’re also obsessed with Hiyaw Gebreyohannes, an HBK Incubates graduate and the man behind Taste of Ethiopia, who has been making…

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While we never really paid attention in high school math classes, we definitely remember pi, the mathematical constant of 3.14, because it reminds us of pie, one of the greatest foods of all time!

And according to our calculations…if pi = 3.14, we must therefore celebrate PIE on 3/14!

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I don’t know about y’all, but we’ve already blown our New Year’s resolutions. So we’re pretty excited about giving 2013 another go with our Chinese New Year’s Eve dinner!

We’ll be ringing in the Year of the Snake with Southern-inspired Chinese dishes. Oh, and Clarice Lam, the fabulous…

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We love seafood that’s wild-caught, sustainable, and above all, delicious…so naturally, we’re obsessed with seafood from the Gulf Coast. Seeing as the East River is lacking in the seafood department, we decided to bring the gulf to us for a“Taste of Mississippi” dinner featuring …

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Fried chicken makes everything better. Seriously, everything…especially when it’s served with cheesy grits, collards, and other Southern, comfort food classics.

This weekend we threw a helluva Southern comfort dinner on Sunday—blogger Rockchic called it “a real treat…definitely one of…

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We’re definitely not wine snobs here at CITY GRIT…our wine lexicon includes words like fancy-ass and sassy. So fortunately for us—and y’all—Hong Kong-based Master of Wine Jeannie Cho Lee is coming all the way to 38 Prince to school us on wines!

Join us as Toy’s Executive Chef Doron Wong…