New York City: Home of Bagels, Cheesecake And NY Style Pizza
February 5, 2010 by Sarah Van Rensburg
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Travel to New York City and you\’ll find a land unlike anything you have ever seen before. You can take one of the many cheap cruises and tour the harbour where the Statue of Liberty stands as a symbol of freedom to all immigrants. Penetrate the interior of the city and check out the many restaurants that make New York famous with culinary critics from around the world. You find the food filling and the experience rewarding.
A real native New Yorker will be able to tell you where you can get the best food in any category in each of the five boroughs that make up the city. Italian food is dominant in some neighbourhoods while in others Spanish dishes are more popular. Chinese and Japanese, Jewish, European and Asian foods of all kinds can be found in the Big Apple. Many who live in New York are not that far removed from their country of ancestral origin so the food that they prepare and serve is the real thing.
A bagel from New York is only rivalled by a bagel from Israel. The NY pizza is a style all on its own, not found anywhere else, not even in Italy. It is made from a thin crust and the slices are monstrous. You have to fold them to eat them. The cheesecake is something that can best be described as \”out of this world\”. What\’s most amazing about it is that you can stop into any coffee shop or bakery in any of the five boroughs and it will be as delicious as the next place.
There are a few places on earth that can be deemed as completely unique and New York City is definitely one of them. It\’s a combination of factors that make it that way. The people are not friendly as a rule but they are open and honest about how they feel. The food is good because so many cultures are represented here and all of them are striving to produce better cuisine than their neighbours.
People still come to New York for the first time every single day. There are also many who leave New York to move their lives to less urban areas where more green space can be found. Some go a few miles out and then commute back to the city for work, sight-seeing at Wall Street, the Seaport, or the United Nations, and of course a game or two at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx or Shea over in Brooklyn. To give you a little insight into life in New York, as a resident you can be a fan of either the Yankees or the Mets, but not both. That is simply not allowed.
Sarah Van Rensburg is a travel lover and avid writer, focussing on a range of travel topics particularly Cruise holidays.
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