
Serious Eats is keeping abreast by posting A Sandwich a Day. I reviewed three new places - This Little Piggy, Mile End and Henry Public - in a piece called Sandwich City at the Pink Pig. And I pick up New York today to find the latest pair, Saltie and Cheeky reviewed. Splendid places, perhaps, but note the dumbing down even of the names of places where we eat.
This has much to do, clearly, with the phenomenon of adults on skateboards.
Although not in Brooklyn, Cheeky seizes the zeitgeist by shipping the bread for its po' boys from the John Gendusa Bakery in N.O. I bet it's good bread, but between the contemporary enthusiasm for green/local/small-footprint ingredients and the historical origin of po' boys I am sure a wry chuckle is to be found.