Dave Cook

@tpottery_ Once you factor in butter, cheese, Tajin, and lime, not so sweet.

@EIT How sweet?

Over-the-top street corn in a cone: elote soft serve dipped in butter, then dressed with Cotija, Tajin, and (eventually) lime, at Papa d’Amour, University Pl., Manhattan. So much butter.

A pastrami sandwich (after an hour-plus in transit, under wraps, while researching a food tour for @ContextTravel), Katz's Delicatessen, East Houston St., Manhattan. Also shown: pickles, which come with; a taste offered by the cutter once I finally reached the head of the line.

Three parts octopus, shrimp, and squid, and one part celery (for its contrasting crunch), seems about right: Neptune seafood salad, Tashkent Supermarket, Sixth Ave., Manhattan

A sprawling annual festival of Bajan chow (food from Barbados, that is, like this fish cake), plus Andean, Chinese, French, Indonesian, Italian, Malaysian, Mexican, Puerto Rican, West African and more: New York-area food events, July 9-12 bit.ly/nyfoodevents-j…

Meaty as I could manage: My richly sauced, overloaded chicken mole taco placero, at Guisados Maria in Bushwick, Brooklyn, surprised me with the winning half of a wishbone, too.

Caracóis — snails — at Sport Club Português, during last month's celebration of Portugal Day in the Ironbound section of Newark, New Jersey

A pata de veado, a Portuguese "deer hoof" pastry of egg-cream-filled, cinnamon-striped sponge cake, at the bakery-café Pão da Terra, during a visit last month to Newark, New Jersey

A Brazilian-style pressed double hot dog — when you're not taking photos, it's much less messy to roll back the wrapper just enough for each bite — from the Opata's Hot Dog truck, during a visit last month to Newark, New Jersey

A brief roundup of New York-area food events for early July bit.ly/nyfoodevents-e…

Fatta hummus and fresh-baked flatbread, Maqluba, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn

Penang char kway teow, Wok Wok, Mott St., Manhattan. Good wok hei. In the downstairs dining room, very good aircon, too.

Making my cooldown plans early: matcha gelato (level 3 on a scale from 1 to 8 , both of which I also sampled), Aokō Matcha, Chrystie St., Manhattan

Seen in passing: Ayamonte, the Tuna Catch; Catalonia, the Fish Market; and Castilla, the Feast of Bread (detail), three of the fourteen panels from Vision of Spain (Joaquín Sorolla, 1911–1919) at the Hispanic Society of America, Broadway, Manhattan

Breakfast coffee and a "Breakfast Way" (served over hash browns) from Skyline Chili, and a morning-sized serving of peach ice cream from Graeter's, between check-in and boarding at the Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG), Hebron, Kentucky

Dollar deviled egg, Dixie Deli, "the last stop to Kentucky," Fairfield, Ohio

Fresh-made Himalayan fare highlights my roundup of New York-area food events for late June bit.ly/nyfoodevents-l…

Sugar, sugar: a pecan long john and (in biteaway view) a creamsicle donut, Jupiter Coffee & Donuts, Fairfield, Ohio

A smokehouse club sandwich, sporting pork belly burnt ends and smoked turkey, plus collard greens and sweet tea at City Barbeque, Fairfield, Ohio

Just Got Lucky: two sunnyside eggs, hash browns, and goetta (Get-uh, a German-American sliced breakfast sausage), plus rye toast, coffee, and a bouncy JoBoxers tune I hadn't heard since the '80s, my morning pick-me-up at Lisa's Kitchen, Fairfield, Ohio