David Chang quote ✍️

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New York gives us a wide colour palette to cook from. We have cuisines from around the world, and that lets us pick and choose.
Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
ENE
Hint 3 another clue
AND STILL ___
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