Author: Bruce Bilmes and Susan Boyle (Page 53 of 61)
Woodside Farm Creamery, Hockessin DE
REVIEW
Woodside Farm calls their ice cream “Farm Fresh,” and this is literally true. The ice cream they make and sell is produced from milk provided by the Jersey cows right here on their farm. This ice cream is extraordinarily thick and dense, with an almost chewy texture. It’s not too sweet, and as it warms up it softens rather than melts into a puddle. The milk from the small Jersey cows on this farm is especially rich in butterfat and protein, and the resulting ice cream, no matter which flavor you choose, tastes most of all of dairy richness. This is among the finest ice creams we’ve ever had the pleasure of spooning into, but its creamy intensity might be too overwhelming for daily consumption. Continue reading
LAF in the A.M. November 22nd, 2014
A Morning Menu of Stories We Think You’ll Find Interesting
Taste Test of Gluten-Free Dinner Breads for Thanksgiving
Watch Texas Pie Company Make Pecan Pie
Ben’s Chili Bowl Stands By Bill Cosby
Boudin Capital of the World
Checking In at: School Street Bistro, Rochester VT
School Street Bistro opened at the end of 2012 in the space formerly occupied by The Village Porch. School Street almost looks like just another house in Rochester, save for all the people dining on the extensive porch. Eugenie Smith, who used to manage The Porch, runs the front of the house while husband Brent is the chef. Together, they lease the restaurant from the owners of the former Village Porch. Continue reading
LAF in the A.M. November 21st, 2014
A Morning Menu of Stories We Think You’ll Find Interesting
A Dozen Great American Food Cities
Best Cheesesteak in Philly
Becky’s Diner of Portland ME Hoping to Offer Health Insurance This Year
Guns N’ Roses N’ Deli
Harry’s Bishops Corner, West Hartford CT
Connecticut is packed with LAF-worthy pizzerias. The bar has been set awfully high. Can it be possible that Harry’s Bishops Corner clears that bar? With room to spare, based on the Fra Diavolo pie we enjoyed.
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LAF in the A.M. November 20th, 2014
A Morning Menu of Stories We Think You’ll Find Interesting
Thanksgiving In Louisville
Cinerama with Cupcakes
Lo-Lo’s Chicken & Waffles Opening in Gilbert AZ
24 Pie Places In and Around Austin TX
4 Aces Diner, West Lebanon NH
REVIEW
The 4 Aces is an original Worcester Lunch Car, #837 to be precise, but you won’t really know that until you step inside, because the red clapboard house built over and around the lunch car almost completely obscures it. Once inside, you’ll be comforted by the classic sight of a 1950s diner, with original tile floor, if such sights comfort you, as they do us. You can step beyond the confines of the original diner to other dining rooms but why would you ever want to do that? Continue reading
LAF in the A.M. November 19th, 2014
A Morning Menu of Stories We Think You’ll Find Interesting
Norma’s Cafe Serving Free Thanksgiving Dinner
Grand Central Holiday Fair
Moody’s Diner of Maine Loses Religious Discrimination Ruling
Oklahoma Joe’s Now Officially Joe’s Kansas City
Duffeyroll Cafe, Denver CO
REVIEW
We’re always on the lookout for cinnamon rolls, and The Duffeyroll Cafe in Denver makes a particularly good one. Duffeyrolls have only a passing resemblance to goop-filled and icing-laden modern mega-rolls. A Duffeyroll cinnamon roll is light-textured, almost like a croissant. It’s a little crisp on the outside, and veined with just enough, but not too much, cinnamon and sugar. Continue reading
LAF in the A.M. November 18th, 2014
A Morning Menu of Stories We Think You’ll Find Interesting
Frog Hollow Farm’s Olio Nuovo Is Here
Do-Nut Dinette of Norfolk, VA Is Reopening
Nick’s vs. Nick’s, the Battle of the Beef
Alton Does Buffalo
Cloudland Farm, North Pomfret VT
REVIEW
Here’s our idea of a perfect Vermont evening: we first drive to Lebanon, New Hampshire, pick up a growler or two of Dooryard Cider from Farnum Hill Ciders, then drive north of Woodstock, towards Pomfret, on winding dirt roads through the forest until we reach Cloudland Farm. We arrive earlier than our reservation so, on a pleasant summer evening, we sit in rockers on the porch as the kind folks at Cloudland bring us glasses. Continue reading
LAF in the A.M. November 17th, 2014
A Morning Menu of Stories We Think You’ll Find Interesting
24 Hours of Lockhart (Texas) BBQ
40th Anniversary of Original Moosewood Cookbook
Revello’s Named Best Old Forge Pizza in NEPA
Tamale Prices Heading Up
Pizzeria Bianco, Phoenix AZ
REVIEW
Many have claimed that Pizzeria Bianco serves the best pizza in the land. As it’s also been one of the most difficult restaurants in which to secure a table, for years we’d been unable to see for ourselves what all the commotion is about. Things have changed. Hours have been expanded to cover midday, and Chris Bianco opened a second restaurant in Phoenix, and a third in Tucson, so that it is now possible to join in the fun without enduring an hours-long wait in the Arizona desert sun. Continue reading
LAF in the A.M. November 16th, 2014
A Morning Menu of Stories We Think You’ll Find Interesting
David’s Country Kitchen in NYC?
How to Get By at a BBQ Chain
Top 101 American Breakfasts, Says Playboy
Tony Luke’s Watch
Farnum Hill Ciders, Lebanon NH
REVIEW
Cider is experiencing a renaissance in the U.S. By cider, we’re referring to hard cider, fermented apple juice, not the fresh-pressed sweet brown juice sold in plastic jugs in the fall (which we also love, particularly if it’s that ever-more-rare unpasteurized stuff). Hard cider’s golden age in America was colonial times, when it was easily made at home, on the farm. Interest died out long ago, and only very recently has America’s interest in hard cider been piqued. Now it seems as if every major brewery has a bottled cider offering. They tend to be sweet and simple, with flavors that lean more towards Jolly Ranchers than real apples. Continue reading
LAF in the A.M. November 15th, 2014
A Morning Menu of Stories We Think You’ll Find Interesting
A Visit to Duarte’s Tavern, An American Classic
Michael Bauer of Inside Scoop SF (and food editor for the San Francisco Chronicle) drives down to Pescadero for a visit to Duarte’s Tavern, founded in 1894. He loves it all, from the slanted floors in the old dining room to the cioppino to the olallieberry pie (olallieberries are a locally popular hybrid of blackberries and raspberries). The menu features artichokes from Duarte’s garden, local oysters, Dungeness crab… in fact, depending on the season, Duarte’s offers locally caught halibut, snapper, petrale sole, and sand dabs. There’s even an abalone sandwich! Continue reading
Helen’s Casa Alde, Buda TX
REVIEW
Migas, a savory amalgam of eggs scrambled with torn bits of corn tortillas and perhaps some combination of chiles, onions, tomatoes, cheese, and/or meat, is the breakfast dish of Austin. Its fame is justified, and no visitor to Austin should neglect it, but even more popular, if less glamorous, is the breakfast taco. Continue reading
LAF in the A.M. November 14th, 2014
A Morning Menu of Stories We Think You’ll Find Interesting
Viva La Local in Tucson This Sunday
Viva La Local is returning this Sunday to Rillito Raceway Park in Tucson, Arizona. The food festival debuted in spring 2014 and was such a big hit that organizers hope to make it a twice-yearly event. There will be over 80 farmers market vendors in attendance, 25 local restaurants, and several area wineries and breweries, along with music by Tucson bands. They are offering bike valet service and will store your farmers market purchases in a refrigerated truck (be sure to tell them not to refrigerate your tomatoes) Â while you enjoy the festival! Proceeds go to help support the Heirloom Farmers Market. Continue reading
Checking In at: Capuano Ristorante, West Windsor NJ
Capuano Ristorante falls into one of two major categories of central New Jersey pizzeria Italian restaurants: the food is OK (the other category: the food is terrible). That’s about the best you can hope for at these restaurants, which are sprinkled by the dozens all over the region. You’ll never hit one where the food is better than OK, but sometimes OK is good enough. (Keep in mind we’re not talking here about those rare, and spectacular, pizza masters like De Lorenzo Tomato Pies in Robbinsville.) Continue reading
