New York City

New York City’s reputation as a food mecca is grounded in its unique and fertile sea, air, and landscape. A confluence of postglacial events along the Atlantic Ocean, Long Island Sound, and the Hudson, Harlem, and East rivers formed a pristine setting of land, water, soil, plant, and animal life and a concomitantly extraordinary abundance of food wealth. Well before European settlement, and pavements and restaurants, there was great food in New York.