The 41st annual Milford Oyster Festival, in Connecticut, begins Friday night (known as Oyster Eve) with four events: Party-All-Eve (live music, oysters, beer), Sail-All-Eve (schooner cruises), Ride-All-Eve (carnival rides), and Stroll-All-Eve (sidewalk sale). Saturday’s Food Courts at Fowler Field and Lisman Landing will offer a wide selection, including foot long hot dogs, lobster rolls, crab cakes, corn on the cob, clam chowder, fried clams, fried oysters, fried shrimp, fresh clams, fried dough, crab rolls, and grinders. Continue reading
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Thursday August 13th 2015
HAPPY NATIONAL FILET MIGNON DAY!
Wednesday August 12th 2015
HAPPY NATIONAL JULIENNE FRIES DAY!
Tuesday August 11th 2015
HAPPY NATIONAL RASPBERRY TART DAY!
Pearl Oyster Bar, New York NY
REVIEW
You can eat some of the finest, and most expensive, seafood in the world in New York City, at restaurants like Le Bernardin and Oceana. What interests us more, though, are places like the Pearl Oyster Bar, a casual joint in the same urban spirit as the Swan Oyster Depot in San Francisco or the bar at The Oyster Bar in Grand Central Station. Continue reading
Monday August 10th 2015
HAPPY NATIONAL S’MORES DAY!
Sunday August 9th 2015
HAPPY NATIONAL RICE PUDDING DAY!
Saturday August 8th 2015
HAPPY NATIONAL ZUCCHINI DAY!
The “Shyster of Smoked Meat”
Justice Matthew Cooper of Manhattan Supreme Court, apparently interested in future screenwriting work, proclaimed the former manager of Gotham’s famed Carnegie Deli, Sanford Levine, to be the “shyster of smoked meat,” and compared him to Jordan Belfort, the Wolf of Wall Street. Mr. Levine married into the family which owns the Carnegie. He is now separated from his wife, Marian. Continue reading
Friday August 7th 2015
HAPPY NATIONAL RASPBERRIES IN CREAM DAY!
Indiana State Fair, Indianapolis IN, August 7th through 23rd 2015
It’s the Year of the Farmer at the 2015 Indiana State Fair, as a different farmer will be spotlighted during each day of the fair. Add in a Wild West Show, acrobats from China, pogo stick stunts, and the great cheese sculpture and you’re certain to have an entertaining and wide-ranging fair day in Indianapolis. The first Indiana State Fair was held in 1852, making it the sixth oldest state fair in the country. Among its many claims to fame: the Beatles actually performed at the fair in 1964! Continue reading
Thursday August 6th 2015
HAPPY NATIONAL ROOT BEER FLOAT DAY!
Waupoos Estates Winery, Picton ON, Canada
Wednesday August 5th 2015
HAPPY NATIONAL OYSTER DAY!
The Texas Kolache Movie
“The Home of the Official Kolache of the Texas Legislature.” West, TX received that designation back in 1997 and, while such an honor perhaps leaves you less than awestruck, don’t sell the town, or the pastry, short. The kolache today is truly as Texan as it is Czech, and Texans go to great lengths to nab some of the fruit or poppy seed-filled pastries from one of West’s Czech bakeries. Continue reading
Tuesday August 4th 2015
HAPPY NATIONAL CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE DAY!
Tontitown Grape Festival, Tontitown AR, August 4th through 8th 2015
The year was 1898. 18 families from Genoa, Italy had arrived in Arkansas over the previous three years, That summer they held a harvest celebration of thanks, an annual tradition which continues to this day as the Tontitown Grape Festival in Tontitown, Arkansas. The 117th edition of that celebration begins tomorrow, Tuesday, August 4th and runs through Saturday the 8th. It’s a grape festival, alright, and there are plenty of grapes to be found, but the festival is perhaps most famous for their spaghetti dinners. Continue reading
Monday August 3rd 2015
HAPPY NATIONAL WATERMELON DAY!
Mike’s Deli, Bronx NY
REVIEW
Mike’s Deli is the Italian grocery of our dreams! And it’s barely a grocery at that; mostly, it’s a deli counter, packed literally to the rafters with hanging prosciutti, curing dry sausages, cheeses, oils, imported dried pastas, breads and rolls, jars of pickled vegetables… the sights, sounds, and smells cause sensory overload. Continue reading
Sunday August 2nd 2015
HAPPY NATIONAL ICE CREAM SANDWICH DAY!
