Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Hi, my name is Tom O'Neill. I am a young(ish) Aussie fella from Melbourne living in New York City for the past 5 years... like many of us out there: I love tasty good food! It's gotta have flavour!
It can be from any culture, cuisine or country and if it's oooooohyummy! (as my 2 year old son often says clenching his little fists and smiling with pure joy) I want it!...I'm not sure if you fully get me yet, so to put it simply: I have a serious fascination, desire, obsession, enthusiasm, energy, passion and appetite for food.
With around 28,002 places to get food (that's hot, cold or raw) in NYC you'd have to say that you're in tastebud heaven Tommo! Well, i'll have to agree with you there. I truly am. Here's a little colourful breakdown of the cuisinal regions of NYC from our friends at www.verysmallarray.com and The Village Voice:






Thanks for all the hard work people, très interesting! (i hope it's ok to share these magnificent works of art with the hungry masses...)
Of course you'll find sprinkled (that definitely won't be the last intended or unintended foodie pun you'll get from me) through all the different cuisine areas of The Big Apple, special little gems selling food of a different cuisine entirely! "What a delicious adventure!" I hear you say! Yep, they're all extremely tasty morsels for your tongues and tummies to tantalizingly tuck into! I will try to cover as much of it as is humanly possible...Essentially I will be writing this blog to share my thoughts and the experiences I have with the food of this great city and the parts of Earth that I am fortunate enough to drop into from time to time... AND being that I am from Australia and have, for the better part of my life, been devouring all my mum's >>

>>luscious food (more about that later! I promise) and much of the tasty tucker of my beautiful homeland supermarkets and restaurants this blog will be for Aussies coming to New York City but, of course, it's for y'all out there interested in a passionate online yarn (that's Aussie for blog) about the exquisite lip-smacking stuff we have to gobble down everyday to stay alive. I promise it will be full of the food I love, some great stories about food n' friends, international yumyums and maybe some recipes thrown in there for good measure...
I hope you will enjoy the read and that I can open your eyes, gullets and minds to some memorable munching!
Here's a little tease for what's coming up next time... OH MY GAWD!!!!! you won't believe how good these are until you have one in ya gob....catch ya soon amigos!

xox Tommo