Tag: pork
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The Willows Restaurant – Lummi Island – November 4, 2018
The experience of a place. At a certain moment. At a certain time. To celebrate the objects around you and see their perfection. Their uniqueness. Their connection to the land and its mechanisms of timeless balance. Is to understand that place. All great food cultures start with this. Our participation in this ecology binds…
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Pineapple and Pearls – May 8th, 2018
I was visiting Washington DC for a couple of nights and chef Aaron Silverman’s two Michelin starred Pineapple and Pearls came highly recommended. The website is a bit mysterious with no sample menu and very few photos. The restaurant offers one 12-course meal with either an alcoholic or non-alcoholic pairing, all inclusive for $325.…
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You better Belize it! Getting slow on Caye Caulker, Belize.
This place made me feel good. A little piece of paradise. I can imagine myself one day dropping off the grid and tending a thatched-roof sand-floor bar waiting on the next massive hurricane to sweep me out into a windex blue oblivion. Caye Caulker is a little island about 20 miles off the coast of…
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The West Virginia hotdog and other sandwiches of my youth. A tour of classic diners and drive-ins of Huntington, West Virginia.
Huntington, West Virginia is my childhood home. Where I was born and raised. And where my family still lives. I grew up exploring the beautiful decay and abandoned industrialscapes that once boomed here some time before I met the world. Huntington is also a hotdog town and I grew up eating lots of hotdogs.…
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Chicago sandwich tour! From the mighty Italian beef to the elusive mother-in-law.
I have the good fortune to be friends with Jim and Mindy Behymer. Mindy is Katy’s cousin and Jim her husband is the author of the notoriously delicious sandwich blog TheSandwichTribunal.com in which Jim is researching and making, often from scratch from the bread up, each sandwich on the Wikipedia list of sandwiches. And has…
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From trdelníky to goulash: the hunt for traditional Czech food in Prague.
Umodre Kachnicky Restaurant specializing in duck. I chose the tasting menu. The Hemingway Bar The Chili Bar The Chili bar is a tiny bar hidden away in a hard to find…