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HISTORIC TRIANGLE — Several food trucks from the Historic Triangle continue to serve culinary creations throughout the community. From breweries, distilleries…
Heaping Helpings: Troy’s La Capital Tacos thriving by delivering authentic Mexico City flavors | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS Shares0 You no longer need a passport to get a taste of Mexico City. Now, it’s just a short ride to La Capital Tacos on 4th Street in Troy. Yair De La Rosa made the leap from chef to chef/owner with his opening of La Capital Tacos on Jan. 1. “It was a little scary to just open during the pandemic with other restaurants closing. It was a scary challenge, but Troy was good for us,” De La Rosa said. “Since we’ve opened, we’ve been doing very good.”
Heaping Helpings: Nonprofit Feed Albany pivots from restaurant employees to packaged meals for anyone in need | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS Albany SUNY Schenectady Culinary Arts majors Evette Maisonette and Panagiota Giakoumis preparing meals for Feed Albany. Shares0 COVID-19 may be on its way out but Feed Albany, a nonprofit formed to address pandemic-related food insecurity, plans to stay. What began more than a year ago as an initiative to feed out-of-work Albany restaurant personnel has grown into an organization that strives to provide high-quality packaged meals to any Capital Region re...
Heaping Helpings: Free Food Fridge project provides access for Albany residents | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS Shares0 Yet founding Free Food Fridge Albany wasn’t exactly a cakewalk for Jammella Anderson. The Albany resident, who was featured on the cover of Time magazine earlier this year, started the project shortly after leaving her nonprofit job in early March of 2020. “I quit, and then the next day we found out that they were shutting down everything. So obviously, panic ensued for me,” Anderson said. Luckily, community members reached out and supported her. She began teaching virtua...
Heaping Helpings: Niskayuna woman’s home-based bakery takes flight utilizing Instagram orders, deliveries | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS Shares0 Sookyung Lee, a Niskayuna resident and the founder of Ppang Bakery, spent years trying to pin down the exact recipe for the milk bread she remembered eating as a child in South Korea. “Then during quarantine … I was cooking up a storm and finally, I found this recipe for milk bread and I tried it, and it was very close. I had to tweak [it] a little bit, but I was so happy about it,” Lee said. After recreating the sweet flavor and soft texture o...