Purple Yum.
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Purple Yam, Worth the Wait
We were lucky enough to have lunch at Purple Yam today, in advance of their opening Tuesday, and Amy and Romy exceeded even the very high expectations.I'm not sure what I expected of their Filipino-influenced food, but it wasn't quite this: It was milder, more accessible, and generally more easy to imagine eating more than once a week than we'd expected.The likeliest hit, and popular with the

yum.
breakfast2, originally uploaded by flatbushnelson.extremely close up of grits. yum.

breakfast of the day.
breakfast, originally uploaded by flatbushnelson.I just wanted to mention that the grits with sundried tomatoes and poached eggs with freshly squeezed oj at the farm sn't a bad way to start a Friday. I'm just sayin'.

Gentrification Fiction
Elizabeth Gumport has an interesting, longish, essay in N+1 about one of favorite topics of blog comments sections everywhere, gentrification.The essay reviews Brooklyn "gentrification novels" through the years fairly harshly, concluding that they're "the most recent and the most hypocritical iteration of Brooklyn nostalgia," but along the way gives an interesting tour of the genre, and has a