The Best Dishes Eater Editors Ate This Week
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The amount of excellent food available in New York City is dizzying even during a pandemic yet mediocre meals somehow keep worming their way into our lives. With Eater editors dining out sometimes several times a day, we do come across
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El Patron burrito at El Patron
Located at the northern gateway to Flatbush and a quick sprint away from Prospect Park, El Patron lies in a little cluster of Guatemalan and Mexican restaurants with a colorful, fenced-in outdoor seating area that catches the sun’s rays around brunchtime. The menu is big on mixed drinks, but also offers a pleasing array of mostly Mexican-American fare, of which humongous burritos is one of the restaurant’s proudest accomplishments. This burrito ($13), which looks like a very heavy bird with its tortilla-chip wings, arrives stuffed with brisket, ri
Stevenson s story garnered attention a full two years before the Black Lives Matter movement shined a national spotlight on the challenges faced by Black business owners. It earned him a loyal following from neighbors who said they want to see more entrepreneurs of color and small family-owned businesses in San Francisco s Mission district.
But faced with an ongoing pandemic that s left the neighborhood s usually bustling sidewalks unusually quiet, Stevenson continues to look for new opportunities at grocery stores and farmer s markets, hoping to find a steady flow of thirsty customers in time for summer.
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We first met Vicktor Stevenson wearing a bow tie and a big smile as he stood in front of his tiny store in San Francisco s Mission District.
S. Clay Wilson, Taboo-Breaking Underground Cartoonist, Dies at 79
His drawings were so outrageous that, on first encountering them, his fellow cartoonist R. Crumb recalled feeling that “suddenly my own work seemed insipid.”
S. Clay Wilson’s cover for Zap Comix No. 3; he also contributed a 10-page story to the issue. His influence on fellow underground cartoonists was evident and ubiquitous.Credit.S. Clay Wilson/Zap Comix
Feb. 9, 2021
S. Clay Wilson, the most scabrous and rollicking of the underground cartoonists who first achieved notoriety as contributors to Zap Comix in the late 1960s, died on Sunday at his home in San Francisco. He was 79.
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While rapid viral protein tests have been criticized for their low sensitivity compared with viral RNA tests, more epidemiologists now believe antigen tests can still be a helpful public health tool as they may indicate who is most contagious at any given moment.
That could have implications for slowing the spread of COVID-19, advocates say. I don t care if someone was infectious 2 weeks ago. I want to know if the person I m testing today needs isolation today, Michael Mina, MD, PhD, of Harvard, said on an episode of
Coronavirus: Fact vs Fiction. That s where these tests really shine. They will be positive when somebody is contagious, for the most part.
Can we have civil civic discourse in these fractious times? Manny Yekutiel, activist and owner of the eponymous cafe, bookstore, and civic events space in San Francisco s Mission district, passionately believes so.
Yekutiel opened Manny s, his people-powered and community-focused meeting and learning place on Election Night in 2018 to encourage civic engagement and discussion in person. We used to go places to engage in political discourse the union halls, the political coffee shops of San Francisco, lecture halls, even the dinner table. This is where we figured it out, Yekutiel said on this week s Out in the Bay. The internet has supplanted these places and that s why I built a physical space where people can come together physically and for now, digitally to learn from each other. To ask questions and actually learn.