eating my way west, part II
In my last post, I managed to sneak a bit of food-talk between paragraphs of moving-onset nostalgia. I shared my last D.C. supper, as well as a random sample of the meals that welcomed me…
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eating my way west, part I
“Whirlwind.” “Roller coaster.” “Bittersweet.” None of the moving clichés are right. Each time, packing feels like something vaguely familiar—something I should be good at by now but for some reason am not. For all the…
the hunger games: rubi’s cafe
I rarely include pictures hawked from Flickr, but in this case, the sandwich made me do it. On the way back from our Berkshire winter escape, we decided to check out Rubiner’s cheese shop in…
a Christmas well spent
It’s the 25th of December and I’m not in Winnipeg. I’m not even in Canada. I’m in Massachusetts, a state I’ve never visited and still need help spelling. Perched on the edge of the Berkshires,…
en route to D.C., in words and pictures
Last weekend I said goodbye to a city that had just started to feel like home. Sadness and excitement tumbled at the edge of my emotions, keeping real tears at bay. As the burritos and…
road food part V: fool’s gold
In Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, young Winfield gets mocked for thinking fool’s gold the real thing. Having been on the road for 6 weeks, I’ve come to a similar conclusion about restaurant food: pretty as…
road food part IV: meet the Virnigs
I’ve safely arrived in Eagle, Colorado, but before I get to the amazing food here, let me tie up the last few days of the Missouri leg. In my last post, I’d begun to wax…
road food part II: breakfast saves
In the “buckle of the Bible belt,” touting food as the harbinger of salvation could be seen as sacrilege. After a five-day string of meals I’d plot somewhere between barely edible and “for sustenance only,”…
road food part I
A warm —read: stifling — foodie greeting from Nixa, Missouri, land of chain restaurants, strip malls and “Authentic Mexican” food. The quotes around that last one are meant to hint at the painful truth that here,…