Baked beans or bust
My only ambition for Boston was to find and eat baked beans. I’ve no idea how I first heard of Boston baked beans, but they’d be tempting me with their […]
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Fried in what?
As with any good myth, it’s impossible to say how I first heard about tater tots fried in duck fat. Somehow during my first semester in New York the idea […]
Thanksgiving in Idaho, expressed as a Sufjan Stevens album
IDAHODELAY! 1. The snow on that mountain reminds me of other snow on other mountains, and various tender scenes from my or someone else’s childhood. 3:50 2. But I thought […]
Simplicity vs. Scarcity: how Cuba keeps the flavour alive
Empty shelves. Coming from a world where shelves are never left unstocked, the sight of all the barren, dusty shelves in Cuba was kind of shocking. Some shops even added […]
Eating Oaxaca 3: How many Tlayudas would be too many?
Arriving in Oaxaca, I knew I was going to eat a lot of tlayudas. They’d been one of the surprise discoveries of my first trip to Oaxaca, settling for the […]
