Like to eat turkey? No, I mean do you really like to eat turkey?

​Like to eat great food and maybe even obsessed with it? Consider yourself a foodie? You may be suffering from a lesion in the right anterior lobe of the brain, in a condition known as Gourmand Syndrome.

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​In previous centuries, stocks of cod were plentiful in the North Atlantic.

No one wanted to see it happen. Yet, anyone familiar with Cod (1997) by Mark Kurlansky or End of the Line (2004) by Charles Clover knows that stocks of cod in the near North Atlantic have been depleted to a fraction of what they were a few decades ago, and the fish that once fed the world and enabled long ocean voyages is in danger of never bouncing back.

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​Before downing this pair of well-fatted babies, better make sure you have a gastroenterologist on call.

We encounter greasy (pronounced "greazy") food all the time in our wanderings. Sometimes it's good, but sometimes excessive fat content gets in the way of really enjoying a dish, and makes you feel contrite after eating it, as you desperately try to mop the telltale shine from your chin.

Here are the most egregious cases of greasiness we've run up against lately, which we'll try to deliver without the usual heart-attack jokes.

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​April Bloomfield of The Breslin is one of the new food saints at the Feast of San Gennaro, and this delicious pork tonnato sandwich is her benediction.

For over 100 years, the street scarf at New York City's Italian religious festivals remained the same: hot or sweet pork sausages, grilled as you watched and served with sautéed onions and peppers; deep fried zeppole (pronounced "zapp-lee" in New York's Italian dialect, derived from the speech of immigrants from Apulia); bracciole ("brah-zhole"), wrapped and stuffed pork or beef mini-roasts; and cannoli ("guh-noeli"), which, along with most other Sicilian pastries, bore the stamp of the long-term French occupation of the island.

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Bananas? Yes! Don't need to be washed.

​The picture in the mind's eye of consumers dashing through the supermarket, tearing things at random off the shelves and tossing them into a cart, and then running to stand in long checkout lines may be the fate of many shoppers, but it need not be yours.

Yes, it's good to stock up on some things, if you can do it without being engulfed in a scene of mass hysteria, such as has been reported by 1010 WINS news in various places in New Jersey.

Remember, even the smallest bodega sells staples, and staples are what you should concentrate on. Here is some advice. Plan on being prepared to weather the storm and its aftermath for, say, three or four days. Anything longer and helicopters will be dropping loads of free food.

1. Canned goods are durable and tasty. Pick up a can or three of tuna -- it's more versatile than you think. And get tuna in oil instead of tuna in water, since you can dump it on boiled pasta. The oil provides sensational lube, and this simple dish is totally soul-satisfying. If you're a foodie, go to a specialty market like Chelsea's Buon Italia, and pick up some really, really good tuna, and pasta in an interesting shape. I guarantee there will be no long lines of disaster shoppers there.

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Licking the dream.

​Last night, Stephen Colbert announced that his Ben & Jerry's flavor, Americone Dream, will as of today be available at Scoop Shops everywhere. And today only you can get two scoops for the price of one at Ben & Jerry's locations. Proceeds from the sale of the ice cream will go toward the Yellow Ribbon Fund, which helps returning injured troops who are recovering at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and Bethesda Naval Hospital. Click through for the video.

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​You can score a lamb head at any halal butcher.

Since the Age of Foodism began, we've been bombarded by freaky food fads, some of rather long duration. Pork belly has enjoyed an extended run, and pastel-frosted cupcakes never seem to decline in popularity, but we've also seen smaller crazes for bone marrow, sea urchin, sea-salt caramels, cod cheeks, frozen pops, small pizzas, ssams, crepes, and, of course, ramen. What's the next big fad? It could be animal heads.

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Steve, go take some happy pills.

​The New York Post's Steve Cuozzo is at it again, this time with a rant about all the things that bother him about New York City dining. Specifically, he gripes against restaurants that don't take reservations, restaurants that do take reservations but regular people can't get them, unfriendly restaurant owners, Koreatown, nightclubby restaurants, and "buzzy" restaurants. But Steve, if you don't like these places, why are you going to them? New York City, with its tens of thousands of restaurants, enables your having an amazing meal pretty much anywhere. If you don't like something, go somewhere else, for goodness sake!

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While waiting for my fiery chicken wings at Buffalo Boss (read the review here ), the new wing joint at least partly owned by Jay-Z, I got to wondering, What should the music be at a place owned by Brooklyn's most respected hip-hop artist and businessman? Rap, of course, but what kind of rap? The genre has become as diversified as indie rock, meaning that, even in a fast-food place, you've got to specialize. The first song I heard was Usher's "DJ Got Us Fallin' in Love" (featuring Pitbull). Listen on for the next three songs I heard on the Jay-Z Fast Food Jukebox as I waited.

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​Eater National has an interview with curmudgeonly food writer and avowed Brooklyn hater Mimi Sheraton. Guess what, she still hates Brooklyn! Oh, OK, she doesn't hate Brooklyn really. She just hates waiting on line.

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