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, ...

It’s neither hot, sunny, nor anywhere near National Egg Cream Day. Could there be a better reason to write about it? National Egg Cream Day is March 15th – a mere 111 days away. Since you can't get ...

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 ...

There’s something about an egg cream that can bring out the debate in some people. “There is egg cream on your face,” wrote one reader, “if you fall for those explanations of the egg cream.” Another ...

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 ...

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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.