Another South by Southwest has come and gone, taking me out of commission for one week and daring me to recover my strength in time to make my Tuesday deadline for this blog. Fuckin’ A. As long as I’m doubled over in defeat, I might as well go for a roundup of the foods that [...]
This story is seventh in a series. Zach will be posting a new story on Mexican food in San Diego every Thursday until he leaves Southern California for the San Francisco Bay, where he will continue to write and edit for The Eaten Path. One thing that Los Angeles taught me about Mexican cuisine when [...]
This story is sixth in a series. Zach will be posting a new story on Mexican food in San Diego every Thursday until he leaves Southern California for the San Francisco Bay, where he will continue to write and edit for The Eaten Path. It’s easy to forget that Mexico is right fucking there. It’s [...]
David Boyk is a grade-A eater, Bollywood enthusiast and South Asian History grad student at the University of California at Berkeley. He has been mentioned several times in the history of this blog as “Boykji.” Wherever you go in Indian cities, you’ll meet people who want to sell you fried things. It’s usually a good [...]
This story is fifth in a series. Zach will be posting a new story on Mexican food in San Diego every Thursday until he leaves Southern California for the San Francisco Bay, where he will continue to write and edit for The Eaten Path. I’ve never forgotten how, when my friends and I toured the [...]
I take pride in my ability to operate beyond the habit of “point-and-eat” food blogging. The day Pies n Thighs returned to Williamsburg – opening its doors one block from my front door and mere hours after the Week of Eating In had ended – was no occasion for pride. It was an occasion for [...]
This story is fourth in a series. Zach will be posting a new story on Mexican food in San Diego every Thursday until he leaves Southern California for the San Francisco Bay, where he will continue to write and edit for The Eaten Path. When I think of Mexico City, I picture Aztec sporting events, [...]
My favorite reason for eating in is that it brings people together and allows them to share. This is a counterintuitive statement for someone whose own family dinner table has always been a bit of a black hole, but perhaps that’s exactly why cooking with friends feels so satisfying to me. Last Friday ended with [...]
Tell a 20-something New Yorker that you’re spending the week eating in, and you’ll surely get some surprised responses; still, thanks to a new bloom of food-savvy home and community cooks (Cathy included), you probably won’t face blank stares. Tell a 20-something New Yorker that you’re no longer going to drink at bars or clubs, [...]
