Okay, people. Either we vastly overestimated your Google skills, or the term barnyard made your eyes glaze over. Either way, yesterday’s Appetite City trivia question, “What barnyard animal served as table and chair during an infamous 1903 dinner in New York?,” produced a lot of strange answers (sheep? really?), but no correct ones. For what it’s worth, it was a horse.
So let’s give this another shot, shall we? To refresh your memory, you’re vying for a copy of William “Biff” Grimes’s Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York—a chronicle of NYC’s weird and wonderful dining past and the subject of this week’s feature story.
Here we go, folks: You may remember Grimes as the restaurant critic for The New York Times between 1999 and 2004. What does he do for the paper now?
Get your best guess to grimesbook@timeoutny.com posthaste, and bring a little Biff-steak to your bookshelf. Winners must be able to pick up their bounty from TONY HQ.
By now we hope you’ve had a chance to read this week’s feature—a tour of the hottest tables of yesteryear with Appetite City author William Grimes—and listen to the accompanying audio tour. Magazine pages being what they are, we had space enough only to scratch the surface of this town’s rich—and sometimes ridiculous—dining history.
To get the full story, you’ll have to read the book. And as always, we’re here to help. We have five fresh-from-the-publisher copies to dispense to a few clever (or Google-savvy) readers. Be among the first five to answer the following trivia question correctly and one of these babies could be yours.* Send your best guess to grimesbook@timeoutny.com.
What barnyard animal served as table and chair during an infamous 1903 dinner in New York?
*Winners must be able to pick up their bounty from TONY HQ.
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The pair of tickets to the Manhattan Cocktail Classic’s Sunday Night Spectacular are gone, folks. The lucky winner: Mr. Mitch Cohen, who correctly fingered the Flatiron location of Restoration Hardware as the former site of Jerry Thomas’s most celebrated New York bar.
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