{"id":404,"date":"2016-05-11T10:53:40","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T14:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.agooddish.com\/?p=404"},"modified":"2016-05-11T10:53:40","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T14:53:40","slug":"a-big-walk-has-its-rewards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.agooddish.com\/?p=404","title":{"rendered":"A Big Walk Has Its Rewards"},"content":{"rendered":"
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New York is a great walking city and a great place to eat. When my husband and I found ourselves in Inwood (around 215th Street) for a wine tasting a few weeks ago, we decided to walk home down Broadway to the 90’s. An interesting thing about a big walk on unfamiliar blocks is that you really get a feel for the different neighborhoods as they flow one into the next and you see the city with different eyes than the ones usually focused on errands or a routine destination. The other perk of a long city walk is that you pass all kinds of little diners, bodegas and restaurants with many kinds of foods we don’t find any more in our now-gentrified hood.<\/span><\/p>\n

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As we headed south toward Washington Heights, I remembered a little Central American place where some years ago we had eaten tamales<\/em><\/a> so delicious they had stayed in my memory. I hoped it would still be there and it was: La Caba\u00f1a Salvadore\u00f1a – 187th and Broadway. At 3:00 in the afternoon we didn’t want to eat a meal but we couldn’t resist getting a sweet corn tamale<\/em>. So we got two tamales de elote<\/em> to go and happily ate them in hand as we continued our walk. The masa\u00a0<\/em>(cornmeal) was hot and fresh and just sweet enough to be a treat, if a bit greasy. Delicious and satisfying.<\/span><\/p>\n

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La Caba\u00f1a is a friendly, neighborhood place with a homey, family-run feeling. There are lots of items on the menu I would order another time – papusas<\/em> (made with rice flour), maduros<\/em> (sweet plantains, here served with sour cream), rice and beans, soups, salads and fresh squeezed juices – but I wouldn’t leave without having a sweet corn tamale<\/em> or two or three. I’d bet their coffee is terrific, too.<\/span><\/p>\n

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You may or may not live in New York but wherever one lives, there is a walk to be taken, a little restaurant or cafe or pub for us to stumble upon, a meal to discover. It is fun\u00a0to get out of our usual comfort zones and explore other neighborhoods. When we took our walk last month, I was afraid creeping gentrification would have run out all of the little places I remembered. Now I’m happy just to know that some “mom and pop” joints like La Caba\u00f1a Salvadore\u00f1a still exist, requiring us to patronize them before development bulldozes them away.<\/span><\/p>\n

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sweet corn tamale<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

La Caba\u00f1a Salvadore\u00f1a<\/span>
\n 4384 Broadway (b’twn 187-188th Streets)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Lacabanasalvadorena.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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