Mouth Of The Border Goes To Texas

by Emily on March 13, 2010 · Comments

Hi all! I know you’re on hold for a post that shows you some great markets and resources for West Indian cuisines’ ingredients. I have it all teed up for you and will be excited to share it late next week.

In the meantime, I wanted to let you know that I’m on the road the next few days. I’m at an annual conference in Austin, TX called South By Southwest.

Breakfast today at the Old Pecan Street Cafe, Austin, TX

I’m here to meet other folks who are great at producing web content, specifically video. I’m doing it for you, my readers. Mouth Of The Border just invested in Final Cut Pro, the best consumer video product on the market. I want to learn all I can so the cooking tutorials we share here are not only useful but a pleasure to watch.

Not only that, but I’m here to meet other great food and beverage writers. I’m currently at a great session called Techmunch hosted by Jaden (Steamy Kitchen and Babette of Bakespace. It’s a great opportunity to learn from other folks who are really great at fostering food communities because I want to do that for you.

If you’re new to the site, here are some other ways to reach me and hear my thoughts. I’d love to hear from you.

Email: Emily @MouthOfTheBorder.com
Twitter: EmilysPearl
Blog: Dangerously Enthusiastic
Mouth of The Border’s Facebook Fan Page: Facebook.com/MouthOfTheBorder

Cheers!

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A Walk Through the West Indies, Via Crown Heights. Restaurants, Part 3.

by Emily on January 27, 2010 · Comments

Welcome back! I hope you’re having a peaceful and productive week.

Not everyone is as lucky as we are to be here, reading about great food experiences and goofing around on the Internet.

I mentioned a few months ago that one of the next communities we’ll visit on Mouth Of The Border is the Haitian community, which makes up a big square of the quilt that is life and culture in Brooklyn.

Many friends and neighbors here have friends and family in Haiti, which has been absolutely devastated by the recent earthquake. Please consider getting out into the Haitian community this weekend, saying hello and supporting their businesses.

Not in New York City? Here are links to some legitimate ways to donate earthquake relief for Haiti: http://www.google.com/relief/haitiearthquake/

Credit: Cresny (via Flickr)

Credit: Cresny (via Flickr)

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Tagged as: brooklyn, doubles, Food, goat, Guyana, guyanese, jamaica, jamaican, nostrand, Restaurants, roti, shrimp, trinidad, trinidadian, westindian

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A Walk Through the West Indies, Via Crown Heights. Restaurants, Part 2.

January 4, 2010

To compare roti with a food that would be more familiar to most of you, I would say you could compare it to a burrito. Rotis are filled with meat or vegetable-based stews mixed with chunks of potato or chickpeas. Based on the filling, roti can be referred to by a number of names in West Indian eateries.

Here at Nio’s, they were serving up eight kinds of roti. Listed on the menu (pictured above) are the choices: Channa (chickpea) and potato, chicken, vegetable, beef, goat, shrimp, oxtail and fish.

I ordered a shrimp roti and doubles (I spoke more about doubles in my last post here http://bit.ly/MOTBWI1). Since my first experience with doubles was subpar, I had high hopes for this one.

Tagged as: brooklyn, doubles, Food, goat, Guyana, guyanese, jamaica, jamaican, nostrand, Restaurants, roti, shrimp, trinidad, trinidadian, westindian

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Casserole Crazy!! (Wait, What?)

October 20, 2009

I’m still cookin’!!

A couple of updates on Mouth of the Border:
1) I know, I know. We still have so much exploring to do in the West Indian communities I started us off on back in June. I am editing so much video I can’t even explain it. It’s good. It’s coming. Stay hungry, please.
2) I [...]

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Something Fishy…in Brighton Beach.

August 24, 2009

Hello, dear readers.
Upload speeds have been crazy-inducing amounts of slow at my home as of late, which prevents me from uploading videos and photos that are necessary to complete the next few posts. I have to take Mouth of the Border to a coffee shop with a stable connection this week to get this party [...]

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Mouth of the Border returns from South of the Border.

August 12, 2009

Someone had to make the inevitable connection between the name of this website and its play on the name of that place in South Carolina, so it might as well be me. (And, yes, I’ve actually been there.)
Seriously, though, I’m just back from an inspiring vacation to a tiny Mexican island and wanted to let [...]

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A Walk Through the West Indies, Via Crown Heights. Restaurants, Part 1.

July 11, 2009

Hi. I’m Emily. I have the WORST sense of direction in the world. I could get lost even if you put me in a clear Zip-lock bag. When I first moved here, the subway system was a little overwhelming because it’s so extensive with the number of lines and stops. I tried to figure out [...]

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Welcome to Mouth of The Border, Month One!

June 29, 2009

This is not a blog. This is an online food journal and love letter to the ethnic neighborhoods of New York City. The posts will generally be long-format explorations of a particular cuisine or cultural aspect of an ethnic neighborhood.
Together, we’ll spend about a month getting into a relationship with each ethnic neighborhood. Funny things [...]

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Hello world!

June 8, 2009

Hello world!

MouthOfTheBorder.com is an exploration of New York City’s ethnic neighborhoods’ food and cultures.
Launching late June 2009.
For more information, email emily at mouthoftheborder [dot] com.

Tagged as: brooklyn, crownheights, Food, launch, nyc, westindian

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