Archive for June, 2009
Vegan Bus Rolls Into Philly For 4th Of July Extraveganza
Aired June 30th, 2009 on Animal Rights, BBQ, BYOB, Events and Vegetarian/Vegan.1 CommentSend Yourself To Fork, Etc. Summer School For Free
Aired June 29th, 2009 on Classes, Events and Free.0 CommentsThe good folks at Fork and its store-next-door, Fork, Etc. just sent us a whole slew of summer dinners and events they’ll be hosting over the next few months, but what caught our eye was this little series of either free or low-priced classes going on throughout the summer. Dig: Thursday Night at Fork, etc: [...]
After launching back in February, Daniel Delaney’s VendrTV has gone all 2.0 on us, adding the ability to comment through Facebook Connect, a soon-to-launch gift shop, and something called a “blog.” While it might take us a while to wrap our heads around that, what we can grasp immediately is that they have put up [...]
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Did you know that the Pennsylvania Hospital at 8th and Spruce holds its own weekly farmers’ market? Held every Wednesday from 11:30 am to 4 pm through October 7th, the market aims to give hospital workers and the surrounding community easy access to healthy, fresh produce (including a crowd-mesmerizing kohlrabi). We haven’t been yet…how does [...]
What to do when you’re dropping off a friend at 30th Street Station and you both want to get a bite to eat before the train leaves, but you don’t want to settle for Au Bon Pain, Auntie Anne’s, or the rest of the fast food options that the station has to offer? We faced [...]
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Illustrator, writer and apparently proud owner of an iron colon Hawk Krall considers the notorious Philly Combo over at SeriousEats. For the uninitiated, Mr. Krall has kindly drawn you a diagram for just what that is and how it works. Go there, look at it. Gulp.
Tastykake Face-Off: Tropical Fruit Flavored Snack Attack
Aired June 24th, 2009 on Junk Food and Tastykake Face-Off.4 CommentsWelcome to today’s Tastykake Face-Off, where Philadelphia’s hometown hero snack product goes up against the competition in a fight for top snack bragging rights. The winner will be carefully selected via analysis of several key criteria discussed below. Today, a mysterious stranger from the South has entered the ring: The Banana Flavor MoonPie. With no [...]
Summer’s here (or so we’ve been told), and it’s time to break out the lobster bibs and the bathing suits (though not at the same time, of course). Starting on Friday and continuing until Labor Day, London Grill will follow up its success with oysters with a menu full of value-priced summer lobster specials, including [...]
If being nominated for a James Beard Award goes a long way toward transitioning a Philadelphia chef from our chef-infatuation to chef-crush, then virtually-annual nominee and 2005 winner for Best Mid-Atlantic Chef, Marc Vetri, by now must be our chef-super-crush. Or something like that. If you’re ready to take your relationship with Mr. Vetri to [...]
