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Food in New York City comes in an intriguing array of possibilities, ranging from outrageously expensive to street food, or bagels with a smear. The three slices of bacon above were $18, which I didn’t have, but I did order as a special treat a $36 plate of scallops– shown first below– and was stunned when only three came along with ice cold cherry tomatoes. Somehow that made that $10 side dish of french fries seem like a better deal? As a cook, I find this all amazing because I know what it costs to cook food without this real estate (or image) mark-up. I’m sure it costs more to hang bacon from clothes pins, right? Anyway, see here my food photos from my visit to NYC earlier this month.

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