Baseball season is back. That means I’m going to eat some hot dogs soon. And I’m excited. I shouldn’t be, not considering the cost. Those between-inning lines are a bitch, standing in front of angry fans looking for beer number three, and behind slow dads buying meals for big families. The condiment dispensers never work [...]
When I was seventeen, two future conditions distinctly outweighed the prospect of a college degree: 1. Someday, I would have a kick-ass girlfriend. 2. Someday, I would eat the hamburgers that Wesley Willis sang about in “I’m Sorry That I Got Fat.” Ten years later, these disparate teenage dreams found each other at the bottom [...]
For the next week, I’ll be writing short posts on the meals I enjoyed during a two-week vacation in my native California. My first hour in California runs like clockwork: Get off the plane. Find a restroom. Pick up my baggage. Drive to In-N-Out. Plenty have followed this routine for years, and plenty others have [...]
Several years ago, I realized that The Impressions‘ “I’ve Been Trying” is my second favorite song of all time. My rationale behind naming this sweet piece of soul my definitive #2 lies in the fact that naming a definitive #1 is a hopeless and hollow act. Favorites shift over time and space, and while the [...]
I’ve never understood why immigrants in any country get such a bad rap. Most anti-immigrationists share the mentality that immigrants “need to learn the language!” or that they “took our jobs!” or that they “need to adjust to our way of life!” Yet, you never hear these naysayers yelling, “Take your food back to where [...]
This story is second 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. As a new San Diegan, I asked a few people I [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
On August 10, 2009, I called the best Thai Restaurant in North America to ask if it would be open on December 23, 2009. Then I booked a cross-country flight with a four hour layover in Las Vegas, with full intent of making good on this phone call. On December 23, 2009, I experienced what [...]
Since this story was written, Peshku has closed its doors. Nate has since found a new love in Pristina’s Fish Grill. Nate Tabak is a journalist and a man of flavor living in Pristina, Kosovo. Like the dim red light baiting the baby-faced sailor about to make his first trip to a brothel, the logo [...]
