Hit The Bowl, Mac
by | Oct 22, 2024 4:38 pm | Comments (0)
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Sew Tasty
by | Oct 15, 2024 1:48 pm | Comments (1)
Brother’s Deli - Simple Pleasures Done to Perfection
by | Oct 11, 2024 1:57 pm | Comments (0)
Brother’s Deli & Co
2700 Park Blvd, Oakland
Frederick Noland
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Sunflower Sous Vide Stalks Cookout Scene
by | Oct 8, 2024 6:04 pm | Comments (0)
One of the four plates of food I ate at People's Kitchen harvest dinner.
Inside the People's Kitchen garden.
People’s Kitchen Harvest Dinner
Reinhard Street Community Farm
6171 Reinhard St.
Philadelphia
Oct. 4, 2024
Fernando Melo picked the petals off a sunflower head and held its face flesh against the grill. Was I at a cookout, I wondered, or had NOMA come to Philly?
The People’s Kitchen, a grassroots collaborative combating food insecurity by making free meals for all, hosted their own kind of cookout Friday night at their Community Farm on Reinhard street. And let me tell you — it wasn’t just hot dogs and hamburgers.
Kale & White Bean Soup, Seasoned With Math; Cash Preferred
by | Oct 7, 2024 10:59 am | Comments (0)
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A Majorly Millennial Meal
by | Oct 7, 2024 10:54 am | Comments (0)
I <3 avocado toast, sorry not sorry.
Nunu’s Cafe
1724 Mandela Parkway #3
Oakland
West Oakland is widely known as a food desert, vast stretches of it devoid of any victuals outside of corner-store fare. And don’t get me wrong — as a foot-bound resident I am endlessly grateful to those purveyors of overpriced seltzer water (when it’s in stock, that is) and emergency bags of sugar to feed my Very Hungry Kombucha. But affordable and healthy food is hard to come by on near every stretch that is not 7th and Mandela, which houses the sweetest co-op around.
Small but mighty may be the neighborhood businesses’ calling card, though, as some of these businesses have been serving their publics for 10 or 15 years, in the cases of coffee shop Kilovolt and Mandela, respectively. Give us something good and we’ll stay loyal. Okay, give us something and we’ll be there.
Prescott Not-Quite-Night Market’s Got the Golden Goods
by | Sep 19, 2024 11:40 am | Comments (0)
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Two tasty bits from Rize Up Bakery
Prescott Night Market
18th St at Peralta Ave.
Oakland
Sept. 5, 2024
Thirsty, not a little sweaty, and determined to fill up on some fried and salty food: a perfect recipe for enjoying an evening at West Oakland’s successful new-ish night market, now in its fourth month.
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Do Try This (Recipe) At Home: Edge Of The Woods Lemon Bars
by | Sep 16, 2024 3:44 pm | Comments (1)
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Lot-A-Burger Staves Off Extinction
by | Sep 8, 2024 10:02 am | Comments (0)
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The West 23rd Street Lot-A-Burger rises again
Lot-A-Burger
928 W. 23rd St.
Tulsa
Sept. 5, 2024
I just know a burger hate to see me comin’.
Though not on the level of a George Motz, I consider myself a bit of a burger historian. I’ve been to the longhorn pastures of Meers’ Burger and the onion-fried mecca of Sid’s Diner in El Reno, and am very annoying on Facebook when In-N-Out is mentioned. In 2017 I ate at all six Lot-A-Burgers in Tulsa for an article in The Tulsa Voice, and subsequently won a journalism award for my efforts.
Keeping an Opa Mind
by | Sep 6, 2024 11:13 am | Comments (0)
LONG BEACH GREEK FOOD & MUSIC FESTIVAL
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Long Beach
Aug. 31 – Sept. 2, 2024
In the Aquatic Capital of America™, it’s easy to gaze seaward and visualize the lifestyles of ancient Mediterranean empires. Before the destructive Spanish arrived in the 16th century, the thriving Gabrielino-Tongva locals utilized maritime routes to trade between the scattered Channel Islands, paralleling the Phoenician sea-merchant empire 7,000 miles away. Today, you can hop on a ferry to horizon-dominating enclaves like Catalina to buy wares, eat seafood, and dodge vicious beasts,then head back to your wife and son, all on an odyssey spanning far less than a decade. From the water, you’ll see coastal bluffs descending to bustling man-made ports, dramatically reemerging as dynamic cliffs that wrap around San Pedro and the commanding Olympus of Palos Verdes, as late winter’s enigmatic fog licks dry rocks until they crumble to coves below — then Scylla flings your skiff into the breakwater, and the Coast Guard arrives to slay her, all in a day’s work.
As someone heavily influenced by Edith Hamilton’s Mythology (1942) but lacking present-day Hellenic acquaintances, I couldn’t resist attending the annual Long Beach Greek Festivalfundraiser to learn more.
Do Try This (Recipe) At Home: Tandoor's Kheer
by | Sep 4, 2024 2:03 pm | Comments (0)
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If The Spot Is Moroccan, Then Do Come A-Knockin’
by | Aug 30, 2024 7:12 pm | Comments (0)
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View from the bar at Notes of Marrakesh.
Notes of Marrakesh
315 S. Trenton Ave.
Tulsa
August 24, 2024
The façades of Trenton Avenue’s 300 block, particularly on the east side — home to Maples 918 Tacos & Cantina, Adorn Designs, Cody Mayo Studios, and Hummingbird Fine Craft — are pretty subtle. So subtle, apparently, that it’s not uncommon for folks aiming for Maples to unknowingly stumble into Studio Row’s newest addition, Notes of Marrekesh. And sometimes they stay, as I heard owner Sovana Benis tell one early-afternoon customer last Saturday.
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Friday Night Is For The Good Boys
by | Aug 27, 2024 12:18 pm | Comments (0)
FOURTH FRIDAYS: DOG DAYS OF SUMMER
Retro Row
Long Beach
Aug. 23, 2024
For small-business patrons, Long Beach’s 4th Street Corridor (a.k.a. Retro Row) has become the stuff of nightmares, a mass grave of once-beloved enterprises. Before you can draft a review of your new fave spot, its page loads with the disclaimer “Yelpers report this location has closed.” My all-time top falafel, the HipPea, tragically served its final chickpea on my birthday last year. Bustling café Portfolio had already succumbed in 2022 and remains disemboweled today. Like a reaper scything down upstarts by the bootstraps, my neighborhood lost Shady Grove (eclectic BBQ), the Hangout (collective market-space showcasing diverse vendors), VBurger (punk-rock plant-based comfort food), Golden Burgers (classic SoCal American/Mexican/Greek/breakfast diner). Each loss displaced a whole subcommunity of consumers with it.
Do Try This (Recipe) At Home: Choupette's Crêpe
by | Aug 26, 2024 4:20 pm | Comments (0)
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Bahn Mi Brings It, Sans Sriracha
by | Aug 25, 2024 12:02 pm | Comments (0)
Lemongrass tofu bahn mi, perfect picnic fare.
Fresh & Best 2
1428 Alice St.
Oakland
Summer is about tomatoes, yes, but it is also about sandwiches in the sun. A perfect portable meal, a carby pocket of protein, fats, and if you’re lucky, some crunch and kick. For a fruity fix, but like, make it “healthy,” scoop up a green smoothie and sip that sucker while you congratulate yourself on your moral superiority as demonstrated by such nutritionally based lunch choices.
