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i8tonite with Food Person Fred Plotkin: Opera Expert and Author of Six Cookbooks
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i8tonite with Food Person Fred Plotkin: Opera Expert and Author of Six Cookbooks

Few people are experts, but then there are folks, like cookbook author and opera professional Fred Plotkin, who are knowledgeable on many topics. A native New Yorker, Plotkin became a student of opera while in college, working with various classical musicians and mentors, such as late mezzo soprano and director of the Lyric Opera House, […]

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Food Destinations & Neighborhood Eats Manhattan

i8tonite: A Cheat Sheet to Dining in New York City’s West Village

This is a re-post of some of my favorite haunts Manhattan’s West Village. I’ve been traveling again….and it always messes with my postings.  The West Village conjures up Carrie Bradshaw-types and her many boyfriends tripping the light fantastic in the early morning, afternoon and night. It’s now a neighborhood peppered with forever young adults feigning […]

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