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Day: October 11, 2014

A Brit’s View: 10 Signature NY Dishes

A pastrami sandwich at 2nd Ave Deli… pizza from Patsy’s Pizzeria… hot dogs by the Coney Island boardwalk at Nathan’s… cheesecake from Junior’s of Brooklyn… these are four of what Jon Langford calls the 10 signature New York City dishes in his BBCAmerica story. Jon writes a column called Mind the Gap: A Brit’s Guide to Surviving America. We’d say he’s surviving quite well; it’s a very reasonable list. We have a few disagreements but nothing on his list is out-and-out wrongheaded (like, he didn’t recommend getting pizza at Sbarro). See the whole story hereContinue reading

Louisiana Seafood Festival Going On Right Now

It’s hard to think about Louisiana without thinking about all the incredible seafood they pull out of the local waters. And nowhere else in America is seafood prepared with such care and passion. If we were in NOLA this weekend we’d head straight for the Louisiana Seafood Festival, going on in City Park through Sunday. Continue reading

A Meat-and-Three Classic

Bill Addison is still writing about Nashville for Eater. Here’s an article about three important restaurants in the city. One of them, Arnold’s Country Kitchen, we find particularly interesting. It’s one of our favorite places to enjoy a meat-and-three lunch in the Music City. As Mr. Addison says, “Plush yeast rolls will tempt, but cornmeal hoe cakes flipped fresh on the griddle evoke an even stronger sense of place.” Continue reading

Green Mountain Smokehouse, Windsor VT

REVIEW

We were a little surprised by the Green Mountain Smokehouse. We’d read about it elsewhere and were expecting something more than what we found. The smokehouse has a small retail room, but they’re really geared towards their wholesale business. Oddly, we found very little selection among the smoked sausages. Most of what they offered were fresh, and frozen at that. The aroma was truly intoxicating, however. The kid manning the retail area told us he couldn’t even smell it anymore! Continue reading

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