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Join New York City's most intrepid eater - Robert Sietsema, pioneer of outer-boroughs dining - in an urban adventure like none other. Through essays on the city's defining dishes, some familiar, others obscure, Robert paints a portrait of New York's food landscape past and present, and shares a life spent uncovering the delicious foods of the five boroughs. Gobble up a century of New York pizza, from the coal-fired pies of a thriving Little Italy to the slice joints of a burgeoning rock 'n' roll East Village. Discover Katz's Delicatessen as Robert did, on a foray into the hardscrabble Lower East Side of the 1970s. Take Robert's hand and he'll bring you through the Mexican taquerias of Bushwick - with their papalo leaves and piled-high sandwiches - then visit the underground Senegalese dining scene hidden in plain sight in 1990s Times Square.