While Girlfriend and I weren’t out touring Boston at the end of April, we rested our heads in nearby Somerville. The neighborhoods of this town, bordering three major universities and cradling the last stretch of the Red Line out of Boston, have been through more than one wave of history – including the familiar story [...]
I grew up in a doughnut town. As soon as I was capable of grasping a tiger tail, I relished trips to our local doughnut shop. Not just because the mixed aroma of weak coffee, fried dough and sugar was the next best thing to freshly baked chocolate chip cookies for a kid, but also [...]
Picture a classic Thanksgiving dinner, when an extended family gathers around a mythically long table. Each seat is filled, and each person can look ahead to see a feast atop tablecloth and a close relative or friend. It’s a scene of domesticity and community, something reserved for sit-coms and too-perfect households, rife with interpersonal drama, [...]
I haven’t been able to complete my story for this week, mostly because I was busy wrapping up my latest piece of Serious Eats! If you haven’t already seen my coverage of the Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest, click through the following series of pieces to learn about the largest pork competition [...]
My first and strongest impression of Mill Valley, CA can be found in television reruns. Captain B.J. Hunnicutt of the 4077th proudly hailed from the up-and-coming Marin County township, and for years he was my sole example by which to measure it. Thanks to M*A*S*H, my mental picture of Mill Valley teemed with laid-back, wise-cracking, [...]
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 [...]
I live for BBQ. I wake up for breakfast. Those who know me best will understand when I say that American breakfast is the backbone of my appetite. If done right, it’s cheap, satisfying and timeless. Two eggs over easy have nowhere to hide and everything to prove, especially when they’re on short order. Some [...]
This is a guest post. Matthew Wolfe is a journalist living in Detroit. Many major American cities, particularly those that once, long ago, would have been called “blue collar,” can claim as part of their civic heritage a signature junk food. The food is usually messy, often greasy and always – to borrow a term [...]
Twenty years before Elvis was drafted, the San Diego Chicken Pie Shop was expanding hips instead of shaking them. With a different war looming, southerners flocked to California for work and were rewarded with a little piece of home: chicken pot pies, mashed potatoes and gravy. Business boomed. Lines snaked out the door. More chicken [...]
The first time I came across Lucky’s, it was in the afternoon and the lights were off. I could barely see into the dark interior, a serpentine breakfast counter of questionable upkeep, but the old-timey Americana feel had me before I ever took a step inside. Lucky’s looked like my kind of place. Then I [...]
