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Some Brief Impressions Of The Village Voice Choice Eats Event, Including Thoughts On The Term "Foodie"

Walking up to the 69th Armory in Gramercy (Is that what that area at 26th street and Lexington is called? Or is that Murray Hill? I always have trouble differentiating it as anything other than the place where the people-I-went-to-college-with-who–I-don't-necessarily-really-hang-out-with-anymore-although-they-still-show-up-on-my-Gchat-and-I-definitely-read-their-status-messages-on-the-reg live and consider themselves to be "downtown.") and seeing the line of half Asian/half not-Asian people wrap, literally, around the entire block, you would have thought the Village Voice's food event Choice Eats would be a complete disaster. But once you entered the large room, sectioned off convention-style with booths and booths of restaurants, it was actually pretty organized and without that really crowded feeling that comes with [...]