What does the 7.5″ train in the above picture have to do with the amazing breakfast in the following photo, which I ate? (Er, the food, not the train.) House Special: Crab Soft Scramble — Soft-scrambled eggs with crab meat and cream cheese, served with fried red potatoes and biscuits Well, lemme tell you about […]
Photos of Great Local Restaurant Food
Where can you find cake like this in Monroe County? I shot this photo in the kitchen at the Frog Leg Inn in Erie yesterday evening. This is a single serving of an incredibly moist and rich six-layer chocolate cake. Catherine’s son Cedric is studying Culinary Arts at Monroe County Community College and also works […]
China Images: The Peach Lady
This is one of the 942 images John shot while in China. No, they’re not all food images! I’ll post a few as we go through them over the next week or so.
An Amorous Goat, Never-Ending Rabbits, and Bri Gets Dunked!
Awww, he loved me! From what I was told, this rather amorous goat at the fair has pushingly-snuggled with complete strangers ever since he was a baby 4 years ago. Now, at 200 pounds, he doesn’t know any better! On the final day of the Monroe County Fair, another goat had discovered the straw was fresher […]
Fair Food at Twilight
Regardless of whether or not I feel there are far too many duplications in the food options at the Monroe County Fair, I have to admit the area has a beautiful and ethereal quality to it at twilight on a clear evening. Here are a few twilight pics of some of the more unique trailers […]
The Fair: Best Elephant Ears in The Midway
One fair food item Mary really, really likes is Elephant Ears. These are rather simple to make. A yeast-based pastry dough is allowed to rise. The prepared dough is stretched into a flat shape like a pizza crust, then deep-fried till it’s golden-brown. After a few minutes rest, it’s sprinkled with either a mixture of […]
Strong Comments on Local and Global Food Safety, Part 4
“Uncle Dave, are we there yet?” In Part 1 of this multi-part series (maybe we’re finally at the end), I laid out some of what I felt is wrong with food safety issues in this country. In Part 2, I looked at a few of the differences between the U.S. and just a couple other […]
Strong Comments on Local and Global Food Safety, Part 3
In Part 1 of this multi-part series (that may really never end), I laid out some of what I felt is wrong with food safety issues in this country. In Part 2, I looked at a few of the differences between the U.S. and just a couple other countries with respect to food safety. In this part, […]
Strong Comments on Local and Global Food Safety, Part 2
In Part 1 of this multi-part series (that may never end), I laid out some of what I felt is wrong with food safety issues in this country. But what about other countries? Here’s Chef Anthony Bourdain in a Paris restaurant, from No Reservations on the Travel channel: It’s a common traveler’s dilemma. You hear about […]
Strong Comments on Local and Global Food Safety, Part 1
Yesterday, the Toledo Blade published an editorial titled “Food for Thought“. One sentence of this editorial rather accurately describes the current administration’s inadequacy in this area: It was a rich irony, and perfectly indicative of the government’s failure to adequately confront this issue, that on the same day that President Bush announced a new panel on […]