From the New York Times earlier today:
Empanadas are many things to many people. They are a savory-sweet knife-and-fork food in Bolivia and a corn-flour-crusted snack in Venezuela. In Chile, empanadas are often stuffed with seafood, which would be an unlikely filling at an empanaderia in Argentina, the country most Americans associate them with.At Empanada Mama, a tender young shoot in the thicket of restaurants on Ninth Avenue in the 40's and 50's, they are something else still: empty canvases, ready to be rendered in a thousand new and fanciful ways. ...
There is a mozzarella and tomato sauce empanada called the pizza ($2.25) ...
EMPANADA MAMA
Location: 763 Ninth Avenue (51st St.); Hell's Kitchen
Phone: 212-698-9008
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