Born in Red Hook Brooklyn, In the Year of Who Knows When
When I first starting driving a cab late in 2001, I never got fares to Red Hook. In fact, my instructor at the Master Cabbie Taxi Academy used to warn the class, “Baba, if you make a habit of taking...
View ArticleThe Hungry Cabbie Eats The Outer Boroughs: Steve’s Authentic Key Lime Piesicles
Lady Liberty keeps her eye squarely on Red Hook. And she’s getting a hankering for a key lime piesicle. Read today’s column in www.gothamist.com. The direct link:...
View ArticleThe Hungry Cabbie Eats The Outer Boroughs: Hope and Anchor
A place has got to be really bad, if I’m going to bother panning it. Hope and Anchor was that bad. Disappointment and sorrow abound in today’s Gothamist column at:...
View ArticleMore Dangerous Than Shotguns
Read about my 4 favorite Sicilian culinary gems in Not For Tourist Guidebook’s “On Our Radar” section at: http://www.famousfatdave.com/FoodWriting/NFTSicilian.pdf Visit...
View ArticleAll In A Day’s Work
The dog days of summer are not a good time to be a cabbie in New York. It seems like everyone who has the means has already taken off for breezier locales. Business is dead. Gas is more expensive....
View ArticleSeventeen Minutes Of Gluttony
I hear YouTube.Com just changed hands for a billion and half dollars. I’m betting that at least a buck of that was because I posted a 17-minute Famous Fat Dave’s Faves Tour this summer. Even though we...
View ArticleThe Hungry Cabbie Eats The Outer Boroughs: Defonte’s
As much as I like to pretend to act like one, I am no working class hero. True, I’ve done a number of blue collar jobs. But that hardly makes me a member of the proletariat. My mom was a teacher and...
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