Tag Archives: dining out Last week I was watching The Best Thing I Ever Ate, and one of the chefs offered this gem: ‘The secret to our great food is that we use only the best ingredients’. Naturally my inner sarcastic smart-ass who I’ve mainly learned to silence (mainly) had quite a bit to say about that! Starting with […]  When I was growing up my dad, who had a penchant for telling Catskill’s jokes used to repeat a joke I believe was attributed to Sam Levinson, the joke went something like this, ‘My whole life all my mother served was leftovers, but no one ever found the original meal’. Last Friday I was watching […] I look back on my Diner daze days with some degree of disbelief. Diners are an integral part of the American landscape, as well as the American experience. Diners in their various forms have waxed and waned in their popularity over the past hundred plus years and I, like many others was swept up in […]  I believe that how we feed a child will determine the type of eater they will grow into. When my daughter was small, I got into a conversation with a co-worker who was complaining about his kids always wanting to eat at McDonald’s. When I told him my daughter did often want to go out […]  Most people have a cravings for sweet or salty, soft or crispy, mild or spicy. I love salty and crunchy and I really love fried chicken. Shortly after I moved into the house I live in now, the city, and especially my neighborhood was buzzing about a new fried chicken spot that was going […]
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