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Nothing Food in Nowheresville
12.31.08 | Permalink | Comment?

In a way, I find airports likable. There’s something to be said for the sense of possibility air travel can afford. There’s the people watching, there’s the way they’re organized and puzzled together as these places which are somehow place-less, like big flat polygons that are on the map only to serve as a portal [...]
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A trip to Collinsville, CT
11.17.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Last Friday was a dreary one, but the fog and gloom added a certain ambience to Collinsville, CT. Eating at the excellent Crown and Hammer was great for lunch (the bread wasn’t great but the dipping sauces were - check out the killer Buffalo Chicken Wrap and Reuben), and walking around the riverfront and taking [...]
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New Britain’s Polish Enclave Pt. 2
11.10.08 | Permalink | Comment?

I’ve just started The Taste of Place: A Cultural Journey into Terroir by Amy Trubek which is full of interesting stuff, but I was a little shocked to see Trubek cite another author I’m reading at the moment, French scholar Michel de Certeau. I’ve just started de Certeau’s The Practice of Everyday Life and while [...]
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Asian Flavors in West Hartford, PT. 3
09.23.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

You’re reading part 3 of a 3 part series of posts. Here’s 1 and 2.

The treasures inside A Dong Grocery anchor a shopping center with many businesses which serve the Asian-American community. Pho Boston (weirdly, not in Boston, still in West Hartford here) is an eatery dedicated to, among other things, Pho, the traditional Vietnamese [...]
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Bacon and Oysters collide at Manchester, VT’s Harvest Grille
08.31.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

And really, how could bacon and oysters in the same bite go wrong? You’d have to work pretty hard at it, but except for some serious oddities and head scratchers at Harvest Grille, in Manchester, VT, this decadent sandwich was largely successful. But let’s start at the beginning.
Harvest Grille sits unassumingly near the center of [...]