Category Archives: Eating

Here we celebrate the best kind of food enjoyment: eating somebody else’s cooking, whether it be in a fine dining establishment or a hole in the wall.

Recipe: Andersen’s Onion Cheese Bread

I had forgotten about Andersen’s Onion Cheese Bread until I started researching the main attraction at the Andersen’s Pea Soup restaurants in various California locations. This bread is a wonderful mashup of crunchy poppy seeds, chewy onion fragments and mellow … Continue reading

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Nibbling at the 2019 Winter Fancy Food Show

Once again the Winter Fancy Food Show was a garden of earthly delights. They’ve remodeled Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, taking out whatever separated the North and South Halls, so the venue seemed even more forbiddingly enormous than on … Continue reading

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Cleveland Kraut: best taste at Fancy Food Show

We’re just back from the Winter Fancy Food Show in San Francisco and will have several reports over the coming days. But this is too good to wait. The (subjectively) best thing I had at the show can be found … Continue reading

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Breakfast Cheeseburgers, aka Cheeseburgers for Breakfast

When I was in college they would serve burgers in our (pretty awful) dining hall on Saturday at lunchtime. I would make up several extras and squirrel them away in my dorm room (my roommate loved this) and enjoy throughout … Continue reading

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Let’s just put oregano on everything!

If you order the magnificent Italian Mix sub at Roma Imports in Saratoga Springs, the last thing they’ll do is shake on some dried oregano. Likewise with the surprisingly good #2 regular ordered “Mike’s Way” at the Jersey Mike’s chain. … Continue reading

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Rating Chicago airport hot dogs

[See UPDATE at the end.] Chicago takes its hot dogs seriously. This includes the Chicago airport hot dogs served to travelers at O’Hare and Midway who never get on the L and see the city first hand. I usually connect … Continue reading

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Hacking the secret McDonald’s menu through online ordering

Fast food places are promoting their online ordering, through a browser or a proprietary app. Nothing wrong with that. And I’ve discovered that you can hack the online ordering system to create a secret McDonald’s menu which would be difficult … Continue reading

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Recipe: Chili Crisp Ice Cream

Spicy Chili Crisp is the Sichuan condiment that’s taking the world by storm (our world anyway). It’s crunchy and flavorful without being overly hot, and has a bonus picture of a grumpy housewife on the label. What could be better? … Continue reading

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New Years Taste Test: Tomato Pie

We have long wanted to do a recipe test for Utica-style tomato pie. With New Years upon us, we realized a suitable competitor to Utica pie would be Sfincione, a Sicilian street food that is especially popular when the calendar … Continue reading

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Capering into a new year

You probably buy your capers, if you use them, in tiny glass jars. This makes capers seem precious, jewel-like, to be doled out one by one. So why not go in a different direction in 2019… and make it a … Continue reading

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