escape the cul-de-sac
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General unspoken guidelines for how to find the best southern barbecue (or bbq, as it is almost always abbreviated): 1. Though it seems strange, the more human-looking the pig(s) on the restaurant’s signage, the better the barbecue. BBQ restaurants featuring realistic-looking pigs wearing neither clothing nor smiles are best approached with caution, or at least [...]
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More than scarves and perfume await you here: I wouldn’t really consider myself a serious shopper. I usually have a get-in/get-out game plan when I go to department stores that used to see me hitting the 50% off rack at Macy’s and leaving with a few of INC’s finest apparel in less than an hour. [...]
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His highness Gelato, appreciated in every season across Italy, during summer undergoes a new youth, renovating and reforming itself; taking on novel colors and flavors that conquer the needy palates of Romans and foreigners alike.
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Recently I heard someone declare the macaroon as the new cupcake. Personally I think that there is plenty of room for both macaroons and cupcakes at the tippy top of my personal food pyramid. First let’s talk about the spelling. There’s the French, macaron, and the English, macaroon. The two major ingredients found in most [...]
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The word, “sherbet,” means “sweet” in the Middle Eastern world. Prepared with cooked fruit juices and considered a great anecdote to summer’s heat, sherbet originated in Turkey several centuries ago. Sherbet is similar to sorbet with one major difference: Sorbet does not contain milk or eggs, whereas sherbet does. Popular flavors today include: raspberry, lime, [...]
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Follow up to last week’s Ingredienti Italiani post on Olive Oil Vinegar: Aceto {ah CHE toh} Vinegar is wine’s destiny, brought about by exposure to oxygen and specific types of bacteria that use alcohol as nourishment. Vinegar is one more reason to be thankful for the French. The slow, ancient method of making vinegar was [...]
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Olio Extra Vergine d’Oliva {AWlyoh extra-VERgeeney d’AWleevah} The best known, and top-quality extra virgin olive oil comes from Italy, no doubt. Olive oil is a staple of the Mediterranean diet and part of Italy’s culture. But olive oil is not just a condiment. Homer called it “liquid gold,” and in ancient Greece, athletes ritually rubbed [...]
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Unless someone tells you exactly where to stop, the unbeaten path will whir right on by. This is probably true along almost any US four lane highway in a pocket of space between more major towns and cities. In this instance the highway is US 17 and the pocket is the stretch between Myrtle Beach [...]
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Strolling past the vendors at any one of dozens of food festivals that go on in May in the South, the sound of sizzling hot oil seems to hiss, “Jamie Oliver be damned.” Whatever you do, I wouldn’t show up there hungry. It’s a gauntlet. Fried dough, aka funnel cakes, french fries, fried crab, fried [...]
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Somewhere in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, on Highway 16 just outside the center of town, close to the shores of Lac La Belle is a small piece of heaven: Mapleway Bowl. It may not seem much when you see it on the road: a faded forty-something year old sign and small one-story building. The front windows sport [...]
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