Tue, May 22, 2012

Destination Doughnuts

Posted 2 years, 9 months ago

I’ve been on the road a lot this summer, up early,  coffee in hand, crisscrossing the interstates and shore roads of the Northeast. I’ve been consuming a lot of gas — and a lot of doughnuts.

Doughnuts may be the perfect roadfood: sweet, indulgent, versatile, and — with a shape like an…

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Really Local Food: Firehouse Suppers

Posted 2 years, 10 months ago

In the hope that I might actually see the sun for 48 hours during the month of June, a few weeks ago I left New York and jetted down to southwestern Virginia — Lexington, to be specific — a petite, perfectly bucolic town nestled in the verdant hills of the Shenandoah Valley. I lived in…

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South of the (Brooklyn) Border

Posted 2 years, 9 months ago

I was reared in the Connecticut suburbs — where going out for Mexican meant flaccid fajitas and blue margaritas at a strip mall — but since then I’ve listened to enough transplanted Californians wax rhapsodic about gas station gorditos and transcendent taco trucks to have concluded that the…

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