I'm Jen, your local NYC guide and welcome to the Brooklyn Bridge I'm here
because it's just gorgeous to share with you a new favorite video. I love to eat
there I said it also don't love waiting in long lines are going the tourist trap
restaurant so this is a top 11 iconic there any invented here in New York that
you must try when you're visiting New York City or the United States in
general along with the usual the history fun facts and bloopers just why not! Okay
in this list I'm counting down the 13 most iconic New York born food crazes
and traditions you must try. For my e-book with pictures and my
favorite restaurants and more click the link below. 13 black and white cookie did
you know the original Dutch word for cookie means little cake the black and
white cookie is not really a cookie at all but a little cake with a layer of
vanilla and chocolate fondant. The first time the dessert appeared on a menu was
in 1902 at Glaser's Bake Shop in 1994 the cookie also became an
anti-racism symbol in the Seinfeld episode the dinner party where Jerry
said "the black and white cookie I love the black and white two races of flavor
living side by side in harmony, he continues to explain "the key to eating
the black and white cookie, Elaine, is that you want to get some black and some
white in each bite yet somehow racial harmony eludes us if people would only
look to the cookie all our problems would be solved." 12 Baked Alaska
Delmonico's restaurant is known for their steak is said to have invented this
dessert initially named the Alaska Florida in the 1830s French chefs called
this type of dessert an "omelet norwegge" Delmonico's pastry chef Charles Ronhoffa
is from Paris and named this dessert Alaska Florida after the
contrasting temperatures of the meringue and ice cream the whipped egg whites of
meringue served as an insulator for the ice cream and slowed down its melting
process this lavish dish originally combined banana ice cream walnut spiced
cake and meringue it used to cost what would be the equivalent of $40 today but
now the 1867 classic Baked Alaska costs $14 Delmonico's even has a rocky road
Baked Alaska variation on the menu. 11 Cronut Dominique Ansel says it took
him three months and ten variations before he invented the perfect cronut
the croissant-doughnut hybrid it is the pastry chefs most famous creation and
one of the few hybrid foods that has survived the initial craze and is still
popular today how do you eat a cronut if you choose to cut it use a serrated
knife to avoid crushing the layers and do not refrigerate a cronut it is best
eaten within eight hours of ordering cronut lovers looking for an excuse to
keep going back and try a new cronut flavor every month. 10 chicken and
waffles the origin of the classic comfort food of fried chicken and
waffles is widely debated some say it might have started in the southern
United States some say it started in the 1600s with the Pennsylvania Dutch and
other stories point to Harlem in the 1930s Harlem restaurants serving chicken
and waffles included the well supper club Tilly's Chicken Shack and Dickey
wells jazz club. 9 Eggs Benedict the u.s. Eggs Benedict dish stacks poached
eggs on Canadian bacon on an English muffin dripping with hollandaise sauce
the origin story here is also up for debate.
It could have first appeared at Delmonico's but most fingers point to
the old Waldorf Hotel as the story goes Lemuel Benedict ordered this dish in
1894 to help cure a hangover some questioned if the dish was invented or
rather just evolved citing that Oscar turkey the maitre d'hotel of the
Waldorf never confirmed this story despite publicly claiming to invent
Thousand Island dressing and the Waldorf salad. 8 Waldorf salad
Oscar claims to have created the salad in 1893. The classic Waldorf salad is
especially popular in the fall and for the holidays it is often served on a bed
of lettuce and includes diced apples celery mayonnaise and recently walnuts.
7 red velvet the Waldorf Astoria also claims to have invented the red velvet
which is questionable since velvet cakes have been made since the 1800s and the
Adam's Extract Company claims they invented the original red velvet cake in
the 1920s despite its debatable origins it is still a New York City staple in
any shape from cake to cupcake. 6 oysters
New York was once the oyster capital of the world and New York Harbor
once contained half the world's oysters back then oysters were cheap and
before hot dog carts line street corners there were oysters carts back in the day
the city was built from burning oyster shells even Trinity Church was built
with oyster shell mortar paste the oyster bar in Grand Central Terminal is
a well known restaurant that opened in 1913 unfortunately over harvesting and
pollution destroyed the oyster beds and by 1927 the oysters in the harbor were
too polluted to eat now billion oyster project is recycling shells to rebuild
oyster reefs since one can filter about 50 gallons of water daily. 5 burger: in
the early 19th century German immigrants popularized the steak served Homburg
style in New York City it evolved to become an American staple and now in
Hamburg Germany the hamburger as we know it is called the American steak some say
Delmonico's was one of the first restaurants to include the hamburger on
its menu the first confirmed menu appearance though was in 1873 at Augusta
Ermich's German restaurant. One of the first chains to sell hamburgers and buns
was White Castle in 1921 it is now enjoyed around the city in many
variations from the bodegas chopped cheese to the impossible burger. 4 hot
dog sausages or frankfurters are said to come from Frankfurt Germany but where do
we get the New York hotdog and how much is a hot dog cart vendor license as
early as the 1860s German immigrants served wieners with milk rolls and
sauerkraut from push carts on the Bowery the American hotdog as we know it was
invented on Coney Island many think the first hot dog came from
Nathan's but it was actually from Feltman's which started as a cart in
1867 later Feldman's former employee Nathan
opened his own stand in 1916 in 1893 a German immigrant who owned the st. Louis
Browns began the tradition of serving hot dogs at baseball games originally
called little dogs or daushound sandwiches because of the long skinny shape it
eventually got the catchier named hot dogs when a New York Journal sports
cartoonist didn't know how to spell daushound.
The cheapest hot dog cart license available is at Inwood park and costs only $700
per year here a vendor can make five thousand dollars in a year the most
expensive cart license is outside of the Central Park Zoo at about 290K
dollars per year but where a vendor can make up to $100,000
profit per year. 3 pastrami on rye there isn't a more legendary Jewish deli
anywhere in New York or even anywhere in the US then Katz's you may have seen it
in that famous scene from When Harry Met Sally "I'll have what she's having"
Katz's Deli was established in 1888 and the Lower East Side deli was originally
known as Iceland brothers in 1903 Willy Katz renamed it Iceland and cats then in
1910 the cat's family bought out the Iceland brothers and renamed it Katz's
delicatessen now there's a second stand location into Dekalb Market Hall in
downtown Brooklyn they pride themselves on a slow curing process compared to
commercially cured meat which typically has a 36-hour process Katz's corned beef
and pastrami can take up to 30 days to naturally cure most people order at the
classic pastrami on rye with nothing else but I love to order a pastrami
Reuben which adds cheese sauerkraut and Russian dressing to the classic rye
bread sandwich the almost $25 Katz's Reuben sandwich seems expensive but it
is huge and really shareable while you're there order a knish which was
likely first seen at Yona Shimmel in the Lower East Side around 1910 which I also
highly recommend you visit. 2 bagel I currently heat a bagel at least
once a week so I know really good bagels the name of my favorite bagel spot makes
no sense but their bagels are the best first a little history the origin of the
bagel is up for debate a recent book about the history of the bagel debunked
that it was made for the 17th century king of poland saying it was likely a
cousin to the pretzel and may date back to the Middle Ages how the bagel get to
New York the recipe migrated with Eastern European Jewish immigrants in
the late 1800s where they were made at bakeries packaging and mass distribution
spread the bagel in the 1960s until by the 1980s the New York
bagel became famously twice the size what makes the New York bagel special
ask anyone they'll say it's the tap water they say it has the perfect soft
balance of calcium to magnesium that makes the bagel chewy a few famous
Jewish bagel spots include Zabar's and Russ and daughters most best bagel lists
include Tompkins Square bagels but it's always packed with tourists and not my
favorite bagel spot after trying many bagel places including lots of local
corner bodegas and delis that often have an awesome bagel I stumbled into a place
an old co-worker recommended it's called Brooklyn bagel and coffee company the
confusing thing is that they only have locations in Manhattan and Astoria,
Queens so the name makes no sense despite the fact that it sounds like a
tourist trap surprisingly it does not disappoint seriously the best bagel I
highly recommend it I'm often asked what should you order at a bagel place so if
you don't already have a bagel order try and everything bagel with a schmear or
spread of cream cheese or you can also put LOX aka Nova smoked salmon on your
bagel order whatever you like but whatever you do do not toast a fresh
bagel, toasting is meant only to revive an older or frozen bagel. 1 Pizza the
U.S. consumes one-third of global pizza consumption and New Yorkers eat 500,000
pizza pies every day how many pizzerias are there in New York City? Nine thousand
pizzerias! The New York style slice evolved from Italian immigrants --is in
the Neapolitan pizza which has a thin crispy crust if you want a cheese
pizza order plain or regular if you want to try America's favorite topping order
pepperoni instead of the large pepperonis that usually come to mind the
trend right now for many pizzerias is the cute fancy Roni cut pepperoni many
pizzerias include raised in the name but the original raised from 1959 closed in
2011 in 1905 America's first pizzeria opened called Lombardi's by Gennaro
Lombardi in Manhattan's Little Italy neighborhood it served large pies from a
coal-fired oven instead of the traditional wood-burning
oven an employee Antonio Totonno started his own pizza shop called Totonno's
in Coney Island that is also so good then another Lombardi pizza maker opened
his own pizzeria called John's of Bleecker Street in 1929 all three
original coal-fired oven pizza joints are still open today and I visited all
of them I especially loved John's of Bleecker Street. Thank you so much for watching this video.
If you enjoyed it please comment below your favorite spot, and as always say yes to new adventures and I'll see you next time, bye!
Ok, I'm gonna walk off into the sunset, all beautiful, it's a sunrise, it's early, ok cue the beautiful walking intro... OUTRO... OUTRO, this is why it's a blooper at the end.
Now that I've filmed my beautiful intro on the Brooklyn Bridge I am here in my
Brooklyn sweatshirt and I am like casually eating a burger and a hot dog
because that's the next thing we're gonna talk about and you're here at
Shake Shack I am like awkwardly like leaning on the table because this chair
is just like the disproportionate amount I'm still lean this way because it
actually I think it looks better in the framing let's eat this hot dog
oh yeah do I have to tell you my history part darn it I can never talk I can
never eat like I'm never allowed to eat we have to talk about the history first... funny noise!:)