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 From Atlantis with Love - Late-night Cornucopia

It's a virtual cornucopia spilling out of From Atlantis With Love, a late-night cart just up the block from legendary venue CBGBs. Peppers, corn, beans, eggplant, red cabbage, long strips of shaved carrots, and dangling ropes of garlic are just some of the vegetables arrayed in front of Michael, the soft-spoken man who vends from the custom-designed cart.

It's a slow moment, so I get a story with my wrap, told in a cadence much slower than the clipped street-talk I'm used to from New Yorkers. He tells me about the patent he's trying to get for his sandwich wraps "because nobody else makes anything like it -- caramelized ginger and Native American spices," and about the custom design of his cart; it's a story interspersed with comments about the ingredients he is adding to the growing pile of meats (chicken and turkey bacon), sauces (yougurt-garlic and barbeque) and vegetables (everything above!) going into my sandwich (and did I mention the cheese?). And finally, there it is, a savory melange, a robust torpedo wrapped in a tortilla and two layers of tinfoil, enough food for a meal now and a snack later. Enough to launch a story of its own.

Posted by Sam on March 8, 2006 07:12 AM

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