1. Where do you come from? 2. What food must you absolutely try in your hometown (and where best to try it)?
Dec 19th, 2007, 12:29 PM
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crefloors, i don't think it tastes like champagne, more like river water, what i meant was that for champagne to be called champagne it needs to be made in the champagne region of france and a bottle of brown has to be made in Newcastle to be given the name of Newcastle Brown Ale, it can't be made in any subsiduary breweries elsewhere in the world.
personally i think it tastes vile!!!!!
personally i think it tastes vile!!!!!
Dec 19th, 2007, 12:37 PM
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Hi RM - I grew up in Herts (Letchworth), but I now live in North Carolina.
When I go back to England I make sure I eat Indian food, fish and chips, and a cream tea (clotted cream - yummmm). If I'm there long enough I add roast lamb and smoked salmon.
In N.C. the don't miss food is BBQ pork - but the kind made with vinegar! And on the coast, Calabash-style seafood.
When I go back to England I make sure I eat Indian food, fish and chips, and a cream tea (clotted cream - yummmm). If I'm there long enough I add roast lamb and smoked salmon.
In N.C. the don't miss food is BBQ pork - but the kind made with vinegar! And on the coast, Calabash-style seafood.
Dec 19th, 2007, 01:19 PM
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Virgin Islands. My favorite are pates but not the liver type. These are turnovers stuffed with minced beef or saltfish with lots of spices in them. Sort of a version of Cornish pasties. Good drink is Irish Moss but you have to know where to go to find it. Goatwater is popular as well as callalou (soup made from local greens) and fungi - that's very like polenta.
Of course at this time of year, if you're a drinker you have to sample the traditional homemade guavaberry liqueur & not to be missed at Christmas is black cake.
Of course at this time of year, if you're a drinker you have to sample the traditional homemade guavaberry liqueur & not to be missed at Christmas is black cake.
Dec 19th, 2007, 01:22 PM
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Oh, and if you come to St. Thomas you'll get the best pates at a little stand right by the entrance to the airport called Ashley's. Lots of taxi vans parked nearby which is the local tip-off for a good place to eat (the Caribbean version of the best place to eat is where the truckers eat.) 
Dec 19th, 2007, 02:10 PM
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1. Louisville, Kentucky
2. A Hot Brown, which is sliced turkey on toast with lots of Mornay cheese sauce poured over and fresh sliced tomato on the top. Originated at the Brown Hotel and still the best around, although it is ubiquitous.
2. A Hot Brown, which is sliced turkey on toast with lots of Mornay cheese sauce poured over and fresh sliced tomato on the top. Originated at the Brown Hotel and still the best around, although it is ubiquitous.
Dec 19th, 2007, 02:58 PM
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kerouac: You are from the MS coast? What town?
I am from Ocean Springs, Mississippi. If you visit the Mississippi gulf coast, you should try raw oysters, stuffed shrimp or crab, at McElroy's Harbor House restaurant. (Or Emeril's Gulf Coast Fish House.)
I currently live in Atlanta, and if you visit here, you should try fried chicken with pot likker, greens and cornbread at Mary Mac's Tea Room. I don't think you will find pot likker too many other places. (Either that or grits and biscuits at the Flying Biscuit.)
I am from Ocean Springs, Mississippi. If you visit the Mississippi gulf coast, you should try raw oysters, stuffed shrimp or crab, at McElroy's Harbor House restaurant. (Or Emeril's Gulf Coast Fish House.)
I currently live in Atlanta, and if you visit here, you should try fried chicken with pot likker, greens and cornbread at Mary Mac's Tea Room. I don't think you will find pot likker too many other places. (Either that or grits and biscuits at the Flying Biscuit.)
Dec 19th, 2007, 03:20 PM
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1. Far west suburban Philadelphia
2. The Philly cheesesteak is a standard (I like the pizza version with red gravy), but the best choice is a roast pork sandwich with broccoli rabe at a place like Tony Luke's in the city.
2. The Philly cheesesteak is a standard (I like the pizza version with red gravy), but the best choice is a roast pork sandwich with broccoli rabe at a place like Tony Luke's in the city.
Dec 19th, 2007, 03:25 PM
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Here in SAN FRANCISCO....
SOURDOUGH BREAD (Duh on the dough!) -- it's the quintessential favorite. You can get it just about everywhere. Look for old names like Boudin, Colombo, and Parisian. You just can't buy it anywhere else in the country. Bring it home, stick it in the over at 325 degrees for 15 minutes and add melted butter. Have it with water, wine, Coke it doesn't matter. Nirvana.
IRISH COFFEE -- Go to the Buena Vista (be local and just call it the "BV"
, 2765 Hyde @Beach near Fisherman's Wharf was the very first place Irish coffee was introduced into these United States in 1952. The BV is the Holy Grail for Irish coffee drinkers and the cocktail (a lump or two of sugar, Jameson's, Tullamore Dew, Bushmills Irish whiskey, and a little cloud of heavy whipping cream floating on top) is IT. Betcha can't quaff just one!!
DUNGENESS CRAB -- I have to admit that Maryland Blue Crab edges ours out, but not by much! The touristy but still most enjoyable experience is to get crab at Fisherman's Wharf; they're fresh from the boats. Just always ask if it's real unfrozen in-season (right now actually) Dungeness Crab. Now get a DC sandwich on some sourdough bread and top it off with an Irish coffee and you'll be a bona fide San Franciscan! Or at least an extremely happy one!
CANNOLI -- There ARE some GREAT Italian restaurants and bakeries right in North Beach in San Francisco City and County, proper, HOWEVER, the best cannoli (sorry SF or Ferraro's in Little Italy, NY) this side of Sicily are definitely made at Romolo's Cannoli and Spumoni Factory on 37th St. in San Mateo, about 30 miles south down the Peninsula. The "factory" consists of a Sicilian husband and wife who hand make each and every cannoli. You must watch the season though because they go back to Sicily for 3 months from roughly July to September each year. This is the Real McCoy!!
IT'S IT -- Made ONLY in the San Francisco since 1928, this is the vanilla ice cream sandwiched between two oatmeal cookies and covered with dark chocolate. Don't be fooled by those fake rice commercials, having an It's-It is TRULY the San Francisco Treat!
I could go on, but why...? Time to put my mouth where my mouth is. I work only 4 blocks from Union Square and before I meet my better half to see "A Christmas Carol" at the A.C.T. tonight, I'm going to hit the Gold Dust Lounge (where they sell the MOST INEXPENSIVE Irish coffee in the Bay Area at $2.95 a drink).
SOURDOUGH BREAD (Duh on the dough!) -- it's the quintessential favorite. You can get it just about everywhere. Look for old names like Boudin, Colombo, and Parisian. You just can't buy it anywhere else in the country. Bring it home, stick it in the over at 325 degrees for 15 minutes and add melted butter. Have it with water, wine, Coke it doesn't matter. Nirvana.
IRISH COFFEE -- Go to the Buena Vista (be local and just call it the "BV"
, 2765 Hyde @Beach near Fisherman's Wharf was the very first place Irish coffee was introduced into these United States in 1952. The BV is the Holy Grail for Irish coffee drinkers and the cocktail (a lump or two of sugar, Jameson's, Tullamore Dew, Bushmills Irish whiskey, and a little cloud of heavy whipping cream floating on top) is IT. Betcha can't quaff just one!!DUNGENESS CRAB -- I have to admit that Maryland Blue Crab edges ours out, but not by much! The touristy but still most enjoyable experience is to get crab at Fisherman's Wharf; they're fresh from the boats. Just always ask if it's real unfrozen in-season (right now actually) Dungeness Crab. Now get a DC sandwich on some sourdough bread and top it off with an Irish coffee and you'll be a bona fide San Franciscan! Or at least an extremely happy one!
CANNOLI -- There ARE some GREAT Italian restaurants and bakeries right in North Beach in San Francisco City and County, proper, HOWEVER, the best cannoli (sorry SF or Ferraro's in Little Italy, NY) this side of Sicily are definitely made at Romolo's Cannoli and Spumoni Factory on 37th St. in San Mateo, about 30 miles south down the Peninsula. The "factory" consists of a Sicilian husband and wife who hand make each and every cannoli. You must watch the season though because they go back to Sicily for 3 months from roughly July to September each year. This is the Real McCoy!!
IT'S IT -- Made ONLY in the San Francisco since 1928, this is the vanilla ice cream sandwiched between two oatmeal cookies and covered with dark chocolate. Don't be fooled by those fake rice commercials, having an It's-It is TRULY the San Francisco Treat!
I could go on, but why...? Time to put my mouth where my mouth is. I work only 4 blocks from Union Square and before I meet my better half to see "A Christmas Carol" at the A.C.T. tonight, I'm going to hit the Gold Dust Lounge (where they sell the MOST INEXPENSIVE Irish coffee in the Bay Area at $2.95 a drink).
Dec 19th, 2007, 07:53 PM
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I live in Colorado, USA, and the Rocky Ford melons are the biggest, juiciest cantaloupes ever! I was born and raised in Indiana, USA. The annual autumn Covered Bridges festival serves up delicious navy beans, sassafras candy and persimmon ice cream.
Dec 19th, 2007, 08:00 PM
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Another Gulf Coast'er here. Hi Kerouac and Cheryllj! I'm in Pensacola, on the Florida panhandle.
We have great seafood here.
Other things to try?
*Grits
*Biscuits
*Fried Mullet
*Vegetable plates: black eyed peas, turnip greens, mac and cheese, fried okra, fresh tomatoes....
The best place in town to eat any of the above was at my Grandma's house. Thank goodness she passed along her cooking skills.
Johanna
We have great seafood here.
Other things to try?
*Grits
*Biscuits
*Fried Mullet
*Vegetable plates: black eyed peas, turnip greens, mac and cheese, fried okra, fresh tomatoes....
The best place in town to eat any of the above was at my Grandma's house. Thank goodness she passed along her cooking skills.
Johanna
