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From Lancaster, PA: Shady Maple
04.01.09 | Permalink | Comment?

This is the first in a series about eating in Lancaster County, PA. Expect more in the coming days.

What: The Shady Maple Smorgasbord
Where: East Earl, PA
Highlights: Above all else, the facility. Shady Maple does not serve the best food ever (and really, some of it is quite bad) but what you do get to [...]
Restaurants
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 [...]
Markets, Neighboorhoods
Another World: New Britain’s Polish Enclave Pt. 1
10.30.08 | Permalink | Comment?

“Enclave” is a word that seems to be thrown around a lot, and the meaning can be a bit nebulous depending on how it is used and who is using it. It’s a word with French origins, but enclave is one of those funny words that ends up sounding somewhat like what it actually [...]