Now that you’ve purchased your ticket to Philly Beer Week Opening Tap, you’ve still got some time to kill until the big day arrives. A good (and topically-relevant) use of some of that time would be for you to acquaint yourself with the newly-launched beta of BreweryFans.com, which combines craft beer and social networking in [...]
Archive for March, 2010
BreweryFans.com Aims To Connect Craft Beer Fans, Breweries, And Distributors
Aired March 15th, 2010 on Beer.0 CommentsCelebrating National Frozen Food Month
Aired March 15th, 2010 on Animal Rights and Phoodies.2 CommentsRemembered today as the forefather of frozen foods (and namesake of the Birds Eye brand), Clarence Birdseye developed efficient technology for quickly freezing and packing food, which allowed it to be stored for long periods while retaining its flavor. But before finding success in the marketplace, Birdseye’s first company, Birdseye Seafoods, Inc., went bankrupt due [...]
Philly Beer Week Opening Tap Tix On Sale Now
Aired March 15th, 2010 on Beer, Beer Week and Events.0 CommentsSince announcing last May that the sudsy annual tradition known as Philly Beer Week would be making the move from March to the warmer days of June (the 4th through the 13th, specifically) for 2010, we’ve been quietly brooding over the fact that we’d have to wait those few extra months to (over)indulge. Beer Weekend [...]
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Help Bring A Mexican Restaurant To Brewerytown
Aired March 15th, 2010 on Mexican and Object Of Desire.1 CommentHey, restaurateurs and potential restaurateurs: The Girard Coalition is trying to lure a Mexican restaurant to Brewerytown as part of its ongoing efforts to spur development along the West Girard Avenue corridor. They’re working in conjunction with both Brewerytown-based real estate developers MM Partners and the business-geared charity The Merchants Fund to find a restaurant [...]
Breathe easy, fruit and veg lovers: The Great Philadelphia Regional Produce Market Strike of 2010 is officially over after five days, without a drop of blood (orange) being shed. The members of the Teamsters Local 929 came to an agreement with the Market’s management that includes a health plan, pension plan, and pay raise. Perhaps [...]
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We Will Not Argue With The Lovely Goofiness Of This Spanish Commercial For Philadelphia Cream Cheese
Aired March 8th, 2010 on Phoodies.1 CommentWe just won’t.
The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board Is So Much Dumber And More Inept Than You Can Even Imagine
Aired March 8th, 2010 on Beer.3 CommentsHow else to explain raids on Resurrection Ale House, Local 44 and Memphis Taproom that occurred last Thursday? In simultaneous raids by state police that sought to flush out, prohibition style, “unregistered” beers, all three bars saw thousands’ worth of kegs and bottles confiscated. One problem: Many of them were in fact registered with the [...]
Reading Terminal Does Biggest Year Ever
Aired March 4th, 2010 on Locavore, Phoodies and Retail.5 CommentsIt’s such good news we almost can’t comprehend it: Philly’s Reading Terminal Market enjoyed 5.8 million visits in 2009, the highest total in the Market’s storied 118-year history, it was announced yesterday. And in a recession year (boy, was it ever), RTM vendors also did $21.4 million in business last year — an increase of [...]
Lidia Bastianich, World’s Most Beloved Living TV Chef, To Appear At Flower Show On Friday
Aired March 4th, 2010 on Celebrity Chefs and Events.0 CommentsIn a world of asshole celebrity chefs (we’re looking at you, Emeril, and you too, Bobby, and Rachael, quite frankly, you, my dear, are a poison on this world), Lidia Bastianich is a saint. An elegant, approachable, knowledgeable chef with skills to pay the bills, zero ego or pretense and a heart as good as [...]
Stephen Starr’s Beer Dinner Frenzy Is Unstoppable
Aired March 4th, 2010 on Beer and Stephen Starr.0 CommentsFresh of beer/dinner pairings at The Continental and Parc, the Starr Organization just announced a third beer dinner, this one at Barclay Prime with Brooklyn Brewery‘s Garrett Oliver. Sure, this one is the priciest, but it’s also the one that’s closest to our fat-clogged, dark-beer-loving hearts.
