The Eating Adventures of a Checker Cabbie
If you’re sick of looking at my mug you’ll be pleased to find Grand Master Melly Mel making a special, albeit brief, guest appearance at the very top of today’s Holiday Foods episode.
Happy Valentine’s Day baby.
(THAT’S my girl)
Mardi Gras is over. But you can relive the party with two Famous Fat Dave webisodes on The History Channel:
Famous Fat Dave Video: King Cake
And
Famous Fat Dave Video: Jambalaya
LONG LIVE NEW ORLEANS!!!
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.
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.
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
Take a gander at the second installment of my Holiday Foods series airing on HistoryChannelDotCom. This isn’t the most exciting one (mostly I just repeat what the baker says), but that shouldn’t stop you from coming back here for links to the next SIX thrilling episodes before the year is out.
Get in the Turkey Day state of mind with:
And get in the New York state of mind with:
This All Hallow’s Eve I do NOT have a new story for you guys to read because I haven’t been driving the cab lately thanks to grad school (thank you grad school, if you’re reading). But I do have a couple of links worth clicking away from FamousFatDave.Com for (click there to browse five borough eating tours for which I am NEVER too busy).
The first link is the inaugural episode of my Holiday Foods Series airing waaaaay over on the other side of the internet at HistoryChannel Dot Com. I’ll be taking you guys on a few different mini eating tours, each focussing on a different holiday food. In today’s episode I take the old Checker cab to Metro Candy Apple in Clifton, NJ whereupon I meet Ray (not impressed by me) and Weezie (LOVED me) while I learn the art of the candy apple.
The second link is to herald the start of a new, bold, delicious blog called “The Crumb Catcher.” Packed with recipes and food reviews, Juree (a former customer on the wheels of steel/ my best friend’s sister) is going to take the food blog world by storm.
The Crumb Catcher. Blogspot. Com
ABC News Now just aired a piece on my famous “Boot Of The Bronx” eating tour, one of the countless, customized, culinary tours I have to offer over at FamousFatDaveDotCom. We got Oprah’s camera man (!) and took a wild romp through The Bronx chowing down on Italian food the whole way through.
Unfortunately, they cut a scene showing those delicious Little Neck Clams Possilipo at Artie’s in City Island. But they’ve got great shots of the broccoli rabe at Fratelli’s in Hunt’s Point, the fried calzone at Louie and Ernie’s in Pelham Bay, the Italian Ice next door at Teresa’s, and the cannoli at Madonia Brothers on Arthur Ave. Classic food porn. Enjoy.
Click here for the video of “The Boot Of The Bronx Tour” With Famous Fat Dave
