For the next week, I’ll be writing short posts on the meals I enjoyed during a two-week vacation in my native California. Exactly what the hell is “California pizza?” A casual glance at my home state offers glimmers of hope, but only amidst a tasteless slurry of industrial-grade delivery chains, “New York” style pizzerias that [...]
For the next week, I’ll be writing short posts on the meals I enjoyed during a two-week vacation in my native California. By the time I discovered truly good Pho, I was miles away from one of its best sources: the Orange County neighborhood of Westminster, where signs for the popular Vietnamese noodle soup outnumber [...]
For the next week, I’ll be writing short posts on the meals I enjoyed during a two-week vacation in my native California. There’s a bar in Long Beach that recognizes what every pickled egg in this country is missing: chilies. Rather than submerging its hard boiled eggs in beet-tinted brine, Joe Jost’s imbues them with [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Comrades, I’m in a bit of a transition period right now, wrapping up work at one job, training for new responsibilities at another and suffering from a mysteriously potent and lingering amount of residual stress that has stopped me from tending to my writing duties. I hope to be back up to speed with a [...]
This is part of a dual post between Monster Munching and The Eaten Path. You can read Elmo Monster’s review here. It’s no secret that The Eaten Path runs on slanted taste buds: for every post I write under the heading of “noodles” there are four posts under the heading of “deep fried.” The eminence [...]
I’m a longtime advocate of making southern fried chicken America’s national food. Burgers and hot dogs are fine miniature flag bearers of our fake empire, but in the United States, discerning individuals know that the bird is the word. Sadly, like the zombified burgers and dogs who dominate global markets, our country’s leading export of [...]
During my last visit to East-West Hair, I got on the topic of hunger with my barber, Ikho. He asked me if I had ever eaten ramen. I couldn’t tell exactly how complicated he intended that question to be, so I answered in the affirmative. Ikho encouraged me to pay a visit to the shopping [...]
Summer: Enshrined in Americana as the flagship of cookouts, stickball, and dubious water sports, this scorching swindle of a season doesn’t reveal its depressing nature until school is out and you’ve been reduced to a sludgesicle of a working stiff. When I was a carefree political science major in the city of Berkeley, summer was [...]
