An egg cream in a pint glass with a red and white striped straw - Bhofack2/Getty Images Unless you grew up in, or have spent time in New York, or the Northeastern coast, you are probably unfamiliar ...

This article originally appeared on The Nosher. An egg cream was my father’s kitchen claim to fame. He assembled them with great flourish — Fox’s U-Bet chocolate syrup, cold milk from a glass bottle, ...

Some New Yorkers consider the New York egg cream — a fizzy concoction of seltzer, chocolate syrup, and milk — a local staple, like thin-crust pizza or hand-rolled bagels. Indeed, in early- and ...

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Emma Orlow is a former editor and reporter for the Northeast region at Eater, who focused primarily on New York City, where she was born and raised. She covered restaurants, bars, pop-ups, and the ...

Former Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz once told Imbibe that the egg cream, a fizzy blend of milk, syrup, and seltzer, “has been Brooklyn’s official elixir since the 1920s.” That’s quite a ...

Leafing through the Jewish Journal, the article almost leaped into my lap. It was all about the egg cream. But not yet. At about age nine, I had earned the privilege of walking the neighborhood alone.