So it’s a humid 95 degrees in New York on a Saturday. Every part of your body is sweaty and sticky and maybe even chaffing. It’s so disgustingly hot out that you are cranky and just want to puke or punch someone in the face. But you decide to go out to a nice restaurant. What do you think most people would choose to eat?

1. Light, (relatively) healthy fish with some spring veg.
2. Red meat: Fish is for women!
3. Risotto with duck confit: Nothing like a big bowl of hot, steamy, creamy, buttery starch on a hot as balls day!

Nothing says Summertime like hot, heavy dishes!

Midtown Manhattan. Formerly known as the land of shitty pizza.

I say “formerly” as a new discovery has just saved this area from the seventh level of pizza hell. A find more awesome than James Cameron’s unearthing of the tomb of Jesus, but with no Discovery channel special (so far). I present to you one of the greatest inventions known to man:

Pizza Truck (with an oven in it!).

Pizza truck (actually called Jiannetto’s Pizza) serves all sorts of I-talian foods - pasta, sammiches, various types of parmigianas and, of course, pizza. Not just any pizza either, this is old school Sicilian style: Rectangular “slices”, all sauce, no cheese and done right - not to mention served fresh and hot, thanks to the futuristic internal truck oven. In addition to the foods I just listed, they also have (a limited number each day) Arancine (I-talian Rice balls for you filthy Americans). As I’m not super-fat just yet, I only ate the pizza and the arancine, so I can speak for the quality of the other stuff but, feel free to try it and let me know - my days of eating everything on the menu (over the course of time, mind you) are over. Continue reading…