In North Park, San Diego, immigrant families have been forced to coexist with an alternative gringolandia. “100% Vegetable Oil” is painted on the windows of the roachiest taquerias and some restaurantes go so far as to include “Vegetarian Cuisine” as a subtitle. The tattooed herbivore population spreads from University to El Cajon, and every restaurant [...]

Comrades,
I’m glad to announce that starting this Friday The Eaten Path will begin its expansion into a group blog.
My good friend Zach will take up a post writing for this site every other Friday as our San Diego/LA correspondent while I work on finding writers from other cities in America and abroad to join our [...]

On the first truly hot day of 2006, my skin was stuck to the back-right arm rest of a 1989 Toyota Camry. Rolling his steering wheel around the corners of Los Feliz, Zakhar declared that this would be the moment that he finally turn on the air conditioner. A dusty, lukewarm sputter inched its way [...]

Is it possible to deconstruct the perfect food? Ramen lovers in New York, myself included, seem tempted to try. We split noodle fibers, dissect slices of char-shu, pay the utmost attention to the snap of bamboo and wax romantic over the substance of the broth as if working our way through the world’s most delicious [...]

Today is national high five day.

The Fontanka cuts through the heart of St. Petersburg, entering the Imperial capital from the northeast corner of the Baltic Sea and making its exit into the Neva at 59.94797 degrees latitude. When I was a student in Piter I went out of my way more than once to walk along its banks- in the [...]

Whenever I travel, I make a point of trying local fast food favorites, be they a regional specialty, a collection of chain drive-thrus or both at once. While every city has its own four star favorites, overpriced brunch bistros and obscure dining legends, no taste is as immediately telling as that of the In-n-Out burger, [...]