Allen Salkin cast industrial films in Hong Kong, wholesaled rubber duckies in Las Vegas, picked oranges in Crete, peddled oil paintings door-to-door in Western Australia, penned stories for New York Magazine, Details, Heeb, Yoga Journal, The Village Voice and other venues, taught Journalism at NYU and MediaBistro.com, and wrote the book "Festivus: The Holiday for the Rest of Us." Most recently a staff reporter at The New York Times, he is working on his second book.

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Allen's New York Times Articles

It's all good in this Aug 2, 2006 piece from the New Kerala newspaper in Goa, India, but the highlight is the fifth graf:

Cucumber feast in Goan church to beget children

By Devraj, Velha (Goa) : In a unique tradition, the origins of which remain unknown, thousands of childless couples offer cucumbers at a fourth century church in Goa, in the hope of being blessed with a child.

Welcome to St. Anne's Church in Velha, located around 15 kilometres southeast of Panjim. [read more]

For those who have asked and those who, like me, wondered: I just spoke to the great Bruce McCall, and, sadly, he said that no, he did not base this week's New Yorker cover on my Times article about outrageously jumbo backyard grills. Like me, he caught a glimpse of one of these stainless-steel monsters and was inspired. He drew. I wrote.

Vincent from Dallas, Texas writes: Hello there. I am Father to two kids who are herbie fanatics.....I built them a herbie go-cart with a real engine and all that is authentic in appearance right down to the racing strips!

I was doing a fun search for other possible herbie go-carts and your site came up in google..... I have attached some pictures of our herbie go cart and you are welcome to share them. We just love our bug ! It goes up to 40 mph and is a blast ! [read more]