NYC Tastes

A couple of weeks ago some friends and I got together and decided to have a dinner that highlighted some of the best food NY state and NYC in particular had to offer. We all split up food tasks and the best cook of the group agreed to host (we really just did all of this as a ploy for him to cook for us!) The problem with our dinner was deciding what to get. NYC has SO much too offer but I think we did a pretty good job over all. My contribution was a Meat & Cheese platter of sorts from Di Palo's. Look at this meat. It's beautiful! Now this dinner actually happened the weekend before Christmas (I'm a little behind) and I had to wait in line for almost 3 hours to get this meat! Not just in any line either! I was in a "crammed up next to the freezer with a crowd of tourist chattering around me and waving their numbers like someone was going to forget them even though it was on number 9 and they had number 37" kind of line! Whew! But you know what- it was worth i...