I like the slogan, “Taste the Rainbow.” Unlike M&Ms’ “Melts in your mouth, not in your hand,” it’s not overly practical. “Hungry? Why Wait?” doesn’t necessarily encourage someone to eat a Snickers bar, but rather anything that’s lying around nearby, which could be a Twinkie, for all we know. And slogans like “Two for me, [...]
Nate Tabak is a journalist and a man of flavor working in California’s East Bay. I never set out to fall in love with a pastry. It was March 2006, and morning in Zagreb found me fresh off a train from Budapest and greeted by a cold, neurotransmitter-sucking rain. My traveling companion, Martyna, whose Polish [...]
January 23, 2010 was National Pie Day, and I missed it. There are fewer things I will say with less pride, and today I am making amends – for myself, for my country and for the men who, however fictional, will never lose sight of the better things in life (clicking on that link, by [...]
My first trip north of Rodeo, CA introduced me to a couple things: what it’s like to be stranded in Ashland when the 5 freeway closes down due to blizzard conditions, and the cultural landscape of the Pacific Northwest that can only be described as alternative. This is the region whence came Starbucks, yet there [...]
Can you name this dining counter? If so, you’ve had the privilege of tasting one of America’s finest burgers. If not, you’ll get your answer below the fold. This is the last of the point-and-eat posts from my holiday in California. I’ve saved what are probably my three favorite meals of the two weeks I [...]
The chip butty, found mostly in the UK, is a sandwich of chips, a.k.a. French fries, stuffed between two slices of sturdy bread. To be honest, the concept was a bit confusing at first. One cold winter morning, I pondered while munching on the ridiculously satisfying layers of deep-fried golden potatoes, ketchup, bread and mayonnaise: [...]
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One food group I’ve sorely neglected as a New York resident is sushi. I came into the sushi game extremely late in life; even so, after having great and affordable sushi in California, it’s tough to man up and shell out for comparable sushi here in the city. Most options seem mediocre for the price [...]
JDC has been a close friend of mine for over fifteen years. He’s spent his last two years in Kochi, Japan, living off of ramen, curry and tall cans of beer while killing centipedes and mutant wasps in his spare time. For the ringing in of 2010, however, JDC was in the Bay Area, and [...]
This unscheduled post is part of the 93 Plates project. You can read Hagan Blount’s post on this meal here. At 8:00 p.m. on a January night, the stretch of Utica Ave. between Foster and Clarendon is a bleak row of auto repair shops, huge, rusted banners hanging over shuttered garages and the occasional fading [...]
