09.03.09
Posted in Bronx, Famous Fat Dave's Five Borough Eating Tours, South Bronx at 2:13 am by Administrator
Soul food in the South South Boogie Down Bronx with Tony Bourdain and Sweetness? I’m in. Watch the “Outer Boroughs” episode Monday night, September 7, Labor Day, at 10pm on the Travel Channel.
And if you can’t catch it on tv, check out a “Missing Scene” of Tony and me heading up to Yankee land and Feeding Tree for jerk shrimp and homemade ginger beer right here on this series of tubes called the internet:
Feeding Tree
Also, click here to read Gettin’ Down In The Boogie Down about Sam’s, the soul food restaurant Bourdain and I will be eating at on Travel Channel Monday night.
www.FamousFatDave.com to book your own eating tour
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03.22.09
Posted in Brooklyn, Coney Island, Dave's Faves, Famous Fat Dave's Five Borough Eating Tours, Hot Dogs, Posts For History.Com at 6:58 pm by Administrator
If you are fan of Eric BADLAAAAAAANDS Booker or Run DMC (or both) you will enjoy this 49 second video:
Famous Fat Dave and Badlands Rap
Let me just say this: it was the single greatest moment of my career.
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02.23.09
Posted in Famous Fat Dave's Five Borough Eating Tours, Manhattan at 9:03 am by Administrator
We drank that whole boot of beer by the end of the shoot. So I really have no recollection of what transpired at Hiedleberg’s Restaurant in Yorkville. I know Tony convinced me to eat head cheese for the first time in my life and I loved it. And I know I ate a lot of pork off his plate because it was super delicious.
We also did a segment at Eisenberg’s Deli down near Madison Square (the fact that my last name is Freedenberg and the producers decided we’d eat at Eisenberg’s and Hiedleberg has got to be a total coincidence right?). We drank Lime Rickys and Egg Creams and spoke of New York past even though I’ve only been here for 12 years and I’m still discovering New York present. I can’t say for sure that part didn’t get cut. I do know that, unlike the episode I did with him two years ago, he’ll get my name right.
We also did a shoot in the Checker for the “Outer Boroughs” episode that should air this summer so look out for that. We did a mini Bronx tour and had some soul food, jerk shrimp, and rabe.
Check out www.FamousFatDave.com for eating tours at reasonable prices
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07.22.08
Posted in Famous Fat Dave's Five Borough Eating Tours at 3:00 am by Administrator
Come by the Happy Endings Lounge on the Lower East Side this Thursday July 24th at 8 to hear me and my old friend Melissa Plaut of New York Hack speak non-motivationally. The lecture series, hosted by Adam Rosen of Gelf Magazine, focuses on a different topic every month. And this month it’s cabbies – Jewish cabbies apparently.
Click here for the pre-speech interview
Click here for the details on where and when
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12.22.07
Posted in Famous Fat Dave's Five Borough Eating Tours, Posts For History.Com, Sweets at 10:23 am by Administrator
I just can’t get enough of Christmas. So the History Channel crew and I drove all the way up to La Tulipe Desserts in Mt. Kisco, NY to learn how to put a modern twist on the ancient fruitcake. Watch the hilarity that ensued here:
Famous Fat Dave Video: Fruitcake (8th video down) 
To watch the video in a larger format, wait until the commercial is done, and then click one of the little grey boxes at the lower right of the screen. It’ll super size the video the way a Famous Fat Dave tour will super size your gut.
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12.13.07
Posted in Famous Fat Dave's Five Borough Eating Tours, Posts For History.Com, Sweets at 11:41 pm by Administrator
Chanukah has, sadly, come to a close. I didn’t get my own tv show like I asked asked Chanukah Harry for, but I did get Taxi! A Social History Of The New York City Cabdriver by Graham Russell Gao Hodges. So I got that going for me . . . which is nice.
It’s beginning to look a lot like Chirstmas. Get in the spirit with another “Holiday Foods” webisode from Famous Fat Dave. Click the link below to start eating like the little piggies eat:
Famous Fat Dave Video: Gingerbread Houses
(9th video down)
P.S. I tried to look as Chirstmasy as I could. How’d I do? Keep in mind I shot this in the early morning after a kinda crazy Halloween.
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12.09.07
Posted in Famous Fat Dave's Five Borough Eating Tours, Jewish, Middle Eastern, New Jersey, Posts For History.Com, Sweets at 4:28 am by Administrator
Chanukah is almost over. But keep the festivities alive with another HistoryChannel.Com video. It’s about Sufganiyot. Never heard of them? Neither had I. Look and learn:
Holiday Food: Sufganiyot
Eating Tours: Famous Fat Dave
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12.04.07
Posted in Dave's Faves, Famous Fat Dave's Five Borough Eating Tours, Jewish, Posts For History.Com at 8:11 am by Administrator
Chanukah is upon us. I’m gonna ask for my own tv show. In the meantime, take a look at today’s installment of HistoryChannel.Com’s Holiday Foods Series as we fry latkes at the Clinton Street Bakery. And if my antics aren’t enough for you, Buster Poindexter fans will be excited to hear that the Checker Cab I drive in this series is the very same one he drove in Scrooged.
Holiday Foods: Latkes
Come back here this week for a second Channukkah episode. And go to www.FamousFatDave.com to book your five borough eating tour
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