If you live in South Philly West of Broad, you know how it can be: Someone asks you where you live when you’re deciding whose place to go back to after making out at the bar, and you tell them South Philly. Your partner in PDA crime says “oh cool, where?” and you name a [...]
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Cheers To The Right Idea On The Wrong Side Of The Tracks
Aired May 5th, 2010 on Beer, Coffee, Props Is Due and Uncategorized.2 CommentsFor all those poor souls out there who are limited to frozen dinners and fast food on a daily basis, we have found the perfect blog for you: Food In Real Life. This blog has a brilliant concept: Take away the veil of food advertising and show the world what this kind of food really [...]
Taste Of The Nation ’10: Fighting the Good Fight
Aired February 17th, 2010 on But What About The Children?, Celebrity Chefs, Chefs, Events, Props Is Due and Uncategorized.0 CommentsWhile we enjoy fancy Korean tacos and alcohol-infused milkshakes as much as the next person, there comes a time when we need to look towards a greater need grumbling deep in the gutty-works of our home town. We’re talking actual hunger; as in, 24.5% of our residents living below the poverty line type of hunger. [...]
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Helpful Recipes! Provocative Farmers! Dawn Wells! It’s The Idaho Potato Commission’s Website!
Aired February 8th, 2010 on Phoodies and Props Is Due.1 CommentWe’re still riding high on Gordon Ramsay’s makeover of the Hot Potato Café; an unexpected side effect of the episode was that we also have a newfound sense of goodwill toward the Idaho Potato Commission, which donated three months’ worth of potatoes to ensure the success of the Café’s relaunch. Their donation was evidently just [...]
Pork Roll: A Delicious Conspiracy
Aired November 23rd, 2009 on Animal Rights, Phoodies and Props Is Due.6 CommentsOutside of this region, people have no idea what a pork roll is and we recently found ourselves wondering, too. A comment on an earlier post sparked an unhealthy interest in the breffast meat that needed to be investigated. Pork roll comes to us by way of our friendly neighbors to the East, New Jersey. [...]
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Philadelphia, You Really Love Your Servers
Aired October 27th, 2009 on Awards, Phoodies and Props Is Due.0 CommentsIt’s not often that we actually say this, but: Philadelphia restaurant goers, you make us proud. In a recent Zagat survey, it was discovered that on average, Philadelphians tip a whopping 19.6% when dining out. Which confirms a lot of things we’ve always thought about Philadelphians: A) We’re not really Americans. We’re better. B) Our [...]
While we weren’t looking, one of our local food celebrities just put Philly food writing on the map in a big way. Local Wine Beast Keith Wallace, Founder of The Wine School of Philadelphia, has been tapped by none other than The Daily Beast to be their go-to-guy for all things grapey. His first foray [...]
The Center City District has just released its latest annual report on Center City’s sidewalk cafés, which found (surprise, surprise!) that, yes, Center City has a lot of them, and people seem to enjoy them. The CCD began conducting these studies in 2001, six years after then-Mayor Ed Rendell authorized cafés to have outdoor sidewalk [...]
At least it wasn’t when I was there this past year.
