Day: May 11, 2007

Want a $5 empanada? go to the Bronx

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Go Yankees!

A new concession stand at the venerable Yankee Stadium is now offering “Latin food” (though I still don’t know what that means!)

According to a story today in the New York Times, the food at “Salsa on the Go” is prepared by the Bronx-based Salsa Caterers and Special Events, using ingredients and products from Goya Foods, the largest Hispanic-owned food company in the country.

What’s funny about the new concession stand is that it, well, stands in the field-level food court in Section 20, in a space where corned beef and pastrami sandwiches used to be sold.

But don’t get too excited about the new flavor addition. The prices are not Bronx-like: $5 for a cheese empanada and $9.75 for a Cuban sandwich.

Whatever happened to the $1 hot-dog?

Moore is ‘less’ after Cuba visit, says U.S.

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Well, it’s not only high-school professors that have to pay the price of going to Cuba for educational purposes.

Oscar-winning director Michael Moore is now being investigated by the U.S. Treasury Department after he took a group of rescue workers on a trip to Cuba — presumably in violation of a government travel ban to the island.

According to Chinese news agency Xinhua, Moore traveled to Cuba in February with a number of former ailing workers to shoot a segment for his upcoming documentary Sicko, which is expected to assault U.S. healthcare system in much the same way as Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11 and Roger and Me.

Doesn’t the U.S. Treasury Department have other more interesting “evil doers” to go after? Leave the teachers -and movie people- alone!