When New York City's most prominent Democrats gathered for a holiday party at the Queens Museum at the behest of U.S. Rep. Joseph Crowley recently,
they dined on broccoli rabe with sausage, drank, belted out songs, and, of course, engaged in some politicking.
But more than that, it's both the common
dining table and grocer to the kind of eclectic city where fictional boxer Rocky Balboa is deemed as worthy of a statue as Founding Father Ben Franklin, an oversized small town where South Philly blue - collar workers and Northern Liberties hipsters alike pride themselves
on being plainspoken connoisseurs of worthy eats, and will endlessly debate whether DiNic's roast pork with provolone and
broccoli rabe has supplanted the cheesesteak as Philly's favorite sandwich.