The Underground Gourmet

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

George A. Hirsch, the publisher of New York Magazine talks with Milton Glaser and Jerome Snyder about their new book on eating adventurously and cheaply in New York City. The two also write a regular feature for the magazine called The Underground Gourmet.

They discuss Chinese food, Spanish food, and Yonah Schimmel's knishes among other New York delights in 1969.


Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection


WNYC archives id: 151662
Municipal archives id: T4724

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