I’m on a bit of a vacation, barbecue road tripping through parts of North and South Carolina through Labor Day. My New York column (and a South Carolina barbecue series on Serious Eats) will resume after the holiday!
My newest piece for Serious Eats is a primer and guide to competitions, cookouts and festivals in the world of American barbecue. Click to read!
Four glasses of wine into a perfectly warm Oahu evening, as I finished off my cousin’s barbecued flank steak and extra spicy caesar salad, his girlfriend regaled us with the paragon attributes of Kona peaberry coffee, a speech she learned from one of her employers. That employer is Alan Wong, a man with enough opinions [...]
In shifting from the new-wave New York dining scene in Williamsburg to the comparatively sleepy restaurant rows of Park Slope, I’ve rediscovered the joy of the humble neighborhood spot. Yet, while I was prepared to celebrate a superb New York bagel (at The Bagel Hole) and dig into a historic Brooklyn slice, I had no [...]
This is Tyler Luiten’s final post as correspondent in Bonn, Germany. Tyler will continue to blog for The Eaten Path as a contributing writer from Madison, Wisconsin. Hindsight is what forces us to look back on an experience and understand or appreciate it with a clearer perspective. I can’t say that’s the case with my [...]
The Jamaican Patty was more or less foreign to me until a couple of months ago. I had passed by Golden Krust plenty of times en route to Popeyes, and I had heard tales of dried-up, unsavory offerings from deli counters and carts, but I had never felt the urge to seek out an authentic [...]
My newest piece for Serious Eats presents the savory exclamation point at the end of a good smoked brisket. Click to read!
As a newly minted resident of Park Slope, I’ve been asked more than a couple times how I plan to enjoy the alleged boredom of my gentrified milieu. Is there really good food in yuppie land? Can I have a good time without being among the hip, young and tasteful? Do I miss the excitement [...]
Sizzling bacon, frying eggs, the smell of hash browns and freshly brewed coffee lingering in the air: these scents and sounds epitomize an American breakfast. They’re what I look forward to on a Saturday morning, what I will always associate with starting the weekend off right. The American greasy spoon diner serves as affirmation that [...]
