Female at a Deli: “Is the reuben sandwich a living tradition? Why can’t we just make our own version?” Male at a Deli: “You want to surrender to chaos?” From the short film: A Reuben by Any Other Name This small conversation from A Reuben by Any Other Name, a four minute indie film that takes place in a small Californian deli, highlights my feelings [...]
Sorry about my disappearance. I went to Asheville for the weekend and then I went to…my bed. The flu. Worst I’ve been sick in years. But that kind of talk isn’t becoming for a food or music blog so let’s leave it at that and get back to the good stuff. One of the places J-Fur and I were told to eat in Asheville was [...]
With the Phillies opening the 2012 baseball season today (against those lowly, cross state rivals the Pirates) I figured it was about time for another installment of Phillies Phinest. This one comes courtesy of the Reading Terminal Market which occupies about a block between Arch and Filbert and 12th and 11th Streets. The Reading Terminal Market offers a large variety of food stands, from Amish [...]
My new haircut has me seeing Shane from The Walking Dead every time I quickly glance in the mirror. Put aside the fact that I’m not a prick, I’m not trying to steal my best friend’s wife and, thanks to the second to last episode of season 2, I don’t have a hole in my head and we are practically twins. There is also the [...]
When I first arrived in Tampa, I hated this place. Cars everywhere, no room to walk, bikers being run over and no health food or international grocers that I could find were just a few of the problems. Through the years some local resident has figured out a way to change this. First came the health food stores. Then the bike lanes. Now the international [...]
Yesterday was Dr. Seuss’ birthday. This isn’t something I expect the majority of the population to know but if you are an elementary school teacher, you know (except me who had to ask). During the day a conversation came up between a co-worker and I. She said that it is tradition at her house to eat green eggs on March 2nd to celebrate. She also [...]
A few weeks back I talked about my struggle to track down the elusive jack fruit. When I finally did find it I figured I had two choices: go big or go home. Well I went big. I loaded up a cart, filled it with dozens of cans of jack fruit and watched the cashier’s eyes as he ran it over the scanner. I filled [...]
Dan London is finally comfortable in his own skin. It took years of traveling from the suburbs to Boston to Nashville and back. It took volleyball games on a beach overlooking a nuclear power plant and vats and vats of fried chicken. It took working at bookstores, dining with crime fiction publishers, grad school for library science and getting fired….many times over. It took a [...]
Back in 2009 I went back to my college town. You may have heard of it, Chicago. My reason was two-fold: check out Lollapalooza and see some old friends. One of those old friends, Johnny Misfit, invited me to dinner at a Mexican restaurant on the North Side. Johnny is a vegan and this was one of the few joints in the city that didn’t [...]
