Food, cooking, and travel
First off, I hope everybody is safe. These are strange, scary times, upsetting all of our routines and challenging everything we take for granted. Among other things, it is refocusing the way we think about food. Sure, we think about ventilators and reproduction rates and …
I’ve often said that I live in the perfect location because I live in the heart of a city but within two blocks of Whole Foods, Acme (a well-run traditional supermarket) and the famous Italian Market. I’m also only about twenty minutes by foot from …
One of the real joys of traveling is eating. Dining out in restaurants in the cities I’m visiting is always a highpoint of the trip – not only sampling the local cuisine but also trying international dishes prepared in different contexts. For example, the first …
Supermarkets are light years ahead of where they were twenty years ago, but they still aren’t able to provide everything that an adventurous cook wants to use. For a cook, I live in one of the most amazing places possible – South Philadelphia. To start …
A few days ago, in honor of the Super Bowl, I spent some time comparing the iconic foods of Philadelphia and Boston. One of the classics I mentioned briefly was the Philadelphia cheesesteak. If any food has come to represent a city, it is Philadelphia …
In the runup to last week’s Super Bowl (American football championship game) between the Philadelphia Eagles and the New England Patriots, partisans from both areas engaged in a higher than usual level of trash talk. Topics ranged from the two football teams, the cities, their …
A few days ago, I wrote about Philadelphia’s amazing Italian Market but in our City of Brotherly Love, we are blessed by having two great markets – the Italian Market and the Reading Terminal Market. Before I get too much further, though, I have to …
One of the highlights of our trip to Rome was the Campo di Fiori but I have to say those of us from Philadelphia are more than blessed with markets. It’s one of the many things that makes Philly great! There are two notable markets here …