Tex-Mex (cuisine)
"Tex-Mex" (never "Mex-Tex") became popular in the 1960s as the name of a cuisine. (Oxford English Dictionary)Tex-Mex, a. and n.Also Texmex. A Texan style of cooking using…
Archive for 08/2006
Diamond Horseshoe (Metropolitan Opera House ring of seats; Billy Rose nightclub)
The "Golden Horseshoe" -- sometimes called "Diamond Horseshoe" -- was the ring of seats for the rich patrons of the Metropolitan Opera House, at Broadway and 39th Street. The…
Oysters Rockefeller
"Oysters Rockefeller" (also called "Huitres en Coquille a la Rockefeller" and "Huitres, a la Rockefeller" was invented at Antoine's Restaurant in New Orleans,…
New York Game (baseball, under the Knickerbocker rules)
The "New York game" referred to baseball under the Knickerbocker rules of 1845. This was the birth of modern baseball, in comparison to the "town ball" then played in New…
“Chocolate by the Bald Man” (Max Brenner)
Max Brenner is a bald man who makes chocolates. "Chocolate by the Bald Man" began in Israel; in 2006, a shop opened near Union Square in Manhattan. Max Brenner's is not the…