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New Group and a Foodsville Foamy Face-Off

There's a new group in town: Beer Lovers of Foodsville.

To join: go to the "Groups" tab. Look under "New Groups." Find us, click on "Beer Lovers of Foodsville." On the right hand side, you'll see "About group." Underneath there is a link, "join group." Click and go back to your beer drinking. You've done it.

Once in:

You are invited to the

1st

Foodsville Foamy Face-Off

• Read the Mayor's IPA feed

• Buy, Taste, Compare, and Record Your Opinion

of the two top-reviewed IPAs from BeerAdvocate:

St...

updated Mar 28, 3 comments

Simply Scrapple

I was introduced to scrapple by my wife Disty when we first met in 1970. She was raised in Philadelphia, and her father, a member of the Fish House, a prestigious men's cooking club, was particularly partial to and accomplished at cooking and eating scrapple. Disty grew up with this breakfast meat, which her father, Stan, used to say "was made from the sweepings off the pig butcher's floor." Sounds very unappetizing, but for those of us who enjoy breakfast meats, there is not...

updated Jan 02, 7 comments

A Final Meal

On Tuesday night, my mother had the family over for Hanukkah dinner at her new apartment. My mom made beef, salad and latkes. As the six of us sat down to this sumptuous and nostalgic feast, I asked my nephew, Greg, what foods he would bring to a desert island. After Greg suggested hot dogs, my Mom, Greg, and I agreed they are one of the most forbidden pleasures. Disty (my wife) suggested her hot dog substitute would be scrapple, a Pennsylvania Dutch breakfast food that is fried and dangerous. S...

updated Dec 06, 2007, 0 comments

The Riverview Restaurant

I can often be seen in the morning at the Riverview in Billerica, MA, just over the border from Bedford. Set in a boxy standalone building separated from the Concord River by a huge asphalt parking lot, the Riverview is a marvel of architecture and naming. How could someone build a building so close, yet so far, from the historic Concord River and then name it "The Riverview"? To see the physical space of the Riverview, one could not imagine that this would be one of the best breakfast...

updated Oct 30, 2007, 4 comments

Artisinal Chocolate and the World

This week's (October 29, 2007) New Yorker magazine has an article entitled "Food of the Gods" by foodie Bill Buford about artisanal chocolates. A slide show of pictures from the article is here. Yesterday, on the NPR program On Point with Tom Ashbrook, Mr. Buford was interviewed and the world of artisanal chocolates was laid open for all to break apart and taste (at least on the radio).

For those who do not already know, artisanal chocolates are the kinds of dark chocolates that contain as much c...

updated Oct 28, 2007, 2 comments

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