This year being the semi-official 50th anniversary of hip hop, we're reminded how certain deeply embedded bits of culture are actually not all that old. Take the NYC bodega lunch counter special, the ‶chopped cheese″ sandwich. We admit that when we enountered a bodega in Chelsea that advertised the ‶best chopped cheese in New York,″ we had to ask what it was. But we didn't feel that ignorant. No greater local food expert than Anthony Bourdain was also infamiliar with the culinary phenomenon synonymous with the Manhattan neighborhoods of Harlem and Washington Heights and the nearby South Bronx. The name of the sandwich appears to be short for ‶chopped cheeseburger.″ Foraging freely on the web, we converged on the generally accepted birthplace of the chopped...Read More