Published in Edible Manhattan - May/June 2009 Issue

A couple of months ago, I was asked to go on assignment for Edible Manhattan to photograph the Bowery's "restaurant supply row". Perusing the old, vast, ridiculously-cluttered stores filled with meat slicers, industrial blenders, cheese graters, pizza screens, and, Chinese teapots (among countless other wholesale kitchen supply goodies that most people would never dream of utilizing), looking for good photographs, I quickly began perusing for the sake of filling my own kitchen cabinets. I now do most of my kitchen utensil / supply shopping at places like Bowery Restaurant Supplies (183 Bowery) and Daroma (231 Bowery), while the most fascinating of all supply stores down there is a place called Globe (266 Bowery). Lined with old fashioned meat slicers and antique knick-knacks from floor to ceiling, Globe is one of the oldest meat slicer stores in the country. Stop in, and the friendly owner will chat up a storm about all the useless meat slicer information you'll never need to know.