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Published: September 26, 2024 by Colman Andrews
As we all trepidatiously await the landfall of Hurricane Helene, it makes us wonder about the naming conventions of hurricanes. […]
Published: May 27, 2024 by Colman Andrews
Steakhouses are definitively North American — the churrascarias of South America, while certainly steakhouses of a sort, are a thing […]
Published: May 23, 2024 by Colman Andrews
If you want to start a fight among food lovers, especially in the South (most definitely including Texas) and parts […]
Some posts appeared recently on YouTube and other social media platforms of a live concert as part of JazzFest in […]
Published: May 20, 2024 by Colman Andrews
Whiskey — or whisky — is possibly the oldest distilled spirit in the world. Fermented beverages like beer, mead, wine, […]
Published: May 16, 2024 by Colman Andrews
The earliest Chinese restaurants in America, dating from the mid-19th-century Gold Rush Era in the San Francisco Bay Area, were […]
The diner is a uniquely American eating place, once especially common along the Eastern Seaboard, up into New England. Today […]
Published: May 14, 2024 by Colman Andrews
Mexican food is extremely popular in the United States. Various surveys of “foreign” cuisines generally name it as our second […]
Venerable Texas-born newsman Dan Rather once observed that he didn’t understand all the controversy about barbecue styles. “Barbecue is beef, […]
Published: May 9, 2024 by Colman Andrews
Compiling an accurate, verifiable list of America’s oldest restaurants is almost impossible. The problem is twofold: how to define “restaurant” […]
Published: May 3, 2024 by Colman Andrews
When it comes to cooking food with live fire, there are two kinds of barbecue: One is anything you can […]
Published: May 2, 2024 by Colman Andrews
The world is full of wonders, and our own nation is home to many of them — both crafted or […]
Published: April 29, 2024 by Colman Andrews
In her 1961 pop hit “Sad Movies (Make Me Cry),” Sue Thompson sang about weeping in a movie theater. Actually, […]
Updated: May 21, 2024 by Colman Andrews
The steakhouse (or steak house — also sometimes called a chophouse, or chop house) is America’s quintessential restaurant type. There […]
Published: April 18, 2024 by Colman Andrews
The oldest chain operation in the world, still going strong (as anyone who’s ever been in an airport can attest), […]
Published: April 17, 2024 by Colman Andrews
The American Civil War, which tore our country asunder from 1861 through 1865, was the deadliest conflict in our history. […]
Published: April 9, 2024 by Colman Andrews
Care for a burger and a beer, or nachos, ribs, chili, wings, etc., alongside whatever libation you happen to enjoy? […]
Published: March 22, 2024 by Colman Andrews
How do restaurants get their names? All kinds of ways. Choosing what to call an eating place can be a […]
Published: March 17, 2024 by Colman Andrews
Spring has sprung, at least according to one definition of the season. March 1 marked the start of meteorological spring, […]
Updated: March 20, 2024 by Colman Andrews
The milkshake got its name because, back before electric milkshake-makers or blenders were invented, it was made the same way […]
Published: March 10, 2024 by Colman Andrews
People have been writing about food for almost 4,000 years, about as long as there’s been a written language (cuneiform, […]
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Updated: October 15, 2024 by Colman Andrews
Bars — in the sense of places where the public could go to drink — have been around for many […]
Published: February 26, 2024 by Colman Andrews
“[W]hen a man makes lunch his first meal of the day it becomes ‘brunch’,” according to an article appearing in […]
Published: January 18, 2024 by Colman Andrews
Almost nine-tenths of the processed foods and drinks we consume, including those produced and sold by giant companies like PepsiCo, […]
