Soul food in the South South Boogie Down Bronx with Tony Bourdain and Sweetness?  I’m in.  Watch the “Outer Boroughs” episode Monday night, September 7, Labor Day, at 10pm on the Travel Channel.

And if you can’t catch it on tv, check out a “Missing Scene” of Tony and me heading up to Yankee land and Feeding Tree for jerk shrimp and homemade ginger beer right here on this series of tubes called the internet:

Feeding Tree

Also, click here to read Gettin’ Down In The Boogie Down about Sam’s, the soul food restaurant Bourdain and I will be eating at on Travel Channel Monday night.

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Famous Fat Dave and Badlands Rap

Let me just say this: it was the single greatest moment of my career.

We drank that whole boot of beer by the end of the shoot.  So I really have no recollection of what transpired at Hiedleberg’s Restaurant in Yorkville.  I know Tony convinced me to eat head cheese for the first time in my life and I loved it.  And I know I ate a lot of pork off his plate because it was super delicious.

We also did a segment at Eisenberg’s Deli down near Madison Square (the fact that my last name is Freedenberg and the producers decided we’d eat at Eisenberg’s and Hiedleberg has got to be a total coincidence right?).  We drank Lime Rickys and Egg Creams and spoke of New York past even though I’ve only been here for 12 years and I’m still discovering New York present.  I can’t say for sure that part didn’t get cut.  I do know that, unlike the episode I did with him two years ago, he’ll get my name right.

We also did a shoot in the Checker for the “Outer Boroughs” episode that should air this summer so look out for that.  We did a mini Bronx tour and had some soul food, jerk shrimp, and rabe.

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Come by the Happy Endings Lounge on the Lower East Side this Thursday July 24th at 8 to hear me and my old friend Melissa Plaut of New York Hack speak non-motivationally. The lecture series, hosted by Adam Rosen of Gelf Magazine, focuses on a different topic every month. And this month it’s cabbies – Jewish cabbies apparently.

Click here for the pre-speech interview

Click here for the details on where and when

Famous Fat Dave Video: Fruitcake (8th video down)

To watch the video in a larger format, wait until the commercial is done, and then click one of the little grey boxes at the lower right of the screen. It’ll super size the video the way a Famous Fat Dave tour will super size your gut.

It’s beginning to look a lot like Chirstmas. Get in the spirit with another “Holiday Foods” webisode from Famous Fat Dave. Click the link below to start eating like the little piggies eat:

Famous Fat Dave Video: Gingerbread Houses

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P.S. I tried to look as Chirstmasy as I could. How’d I do? Keep in mind I shot this in the early morning after a kinda crazy Halloween.

Holiday Food: Sufganiyot

Eating Tours: Famous Fat Dave

Chanukah is upon us. I’m gonna ask for my own tv show. In the meantime, take a look at today’s installment of HistoryChannel.Com’s Holiday Foods Series as we fry latkes at the Clinton Street Bakery. And if my antics aren’t enough for you, Buster Poindexter fans will be excited to hear that the Checker Cab I drive in this series is the very same one he drove in Scrooged.

Holiday Foods: Latkes

Come back here this week for a second Channukkah episode. And go to www.FamousFatDave.com to book your five borough eating tour