Bubba’s Chikin & Thangs
Seriously. How could anyone resist finding out what “thangs” Bubba served up with chikin? I’m kidding. This is the kind of place you’d probably drive by, but secretly wonder about. […]
Category Archives: Tasty Eats
A Ghost of Charles Dickens’ Past
The Golden Lamb in Lebanon, Ohio is Ohio’s oldest inn. Its charm is historic and its former clientele still present. Charles Dickens once stopped here; as did many other prominent […]
Pork Fermented in Banana Leaves Whets the Appetite for Eels
The second stop on our Hanoi Food Tour was confusing at first. This cement-garage-type dwelling didn’t seem like a place we’d go to eat. Even as we stepped inside, past […]
Chopsticks & Rice Pancakes
Isn’t she beautiful? This woman sitting on a porch, fanning the smoke as she and two other women cooked pork skewers over a flame. They sat on a slab of […]
Cutest Coffee Shop Ever.
In fact, you could write that on a post-it and add it to the wall. The servers/baristas at this quirky little coffee shop on the road along Hoan Kiem Lake […]
Twisted Path + Bittercube = Dock18
Pretend you can hear the click-clack of heels on the pavement as we stepped across the gravelly driveway to this warehouse door. You press the buzzer for Dock18 without any […]
Kringles Aren’t Just for Christmas
I’d heard that Kringles were a staple of Wisconsin life. The same way cheese and beer are associated with the state. Except — we all know about beer and cheese. […]
Drink Wisconsibly!
While I was in Chicago, I saw a man wearing a baseball cap. Across the back of it were the words Drink Wisconsibly! I thought it was a cute play […]
Chris’ Hot Dogs
Across from Chris’ Hot Dogs sits the old Kress building; a department store that was as much a staple of Montgomery’s Dexter Avenue as Chris’ Hot Dogs was. These days, […]
Peruvian Proteins
Beef heart skewers. Alpaca. Guinea pig. I tried them all. Beef heart skewers, aka Anticuchos. A traditional food that was originally fed to slaves as the leftover parts of the […]
