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Weird Regional Foods
Meal Ticket video vixen Felicia D. spent some time at the venerable Jim's Steaks at Fourth and South to get some first-hand experience building a cheesesteak. Above, check out her spatula-wielding skills (not bad for a first-timer, according to veteran grillman Ali) and get schooled on some Jim's history by owner Abner Silver.
Wow nice job perk! Behind the counter at Jim's. Next time - Sat night rush.
Great job! Ali said it all, "You coulda done worser."
[...] ⢠Meal Ticket’s Felicia D. does it again, this time working the grill at Jim’s Steaks on South Street. There’s something about the clang of a metal spatula on a hot griddle… [Meal Ticket] [...]
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[...] Tuesday I got a chance to check out the new specials over at Oyster [...]
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| theworldwidegourmet.com |
A Meal Ticket reader just checked in with this query, which is making us pretty damn hungry, we gotta say:
I have an overwhelmingly uncomfortable craving for Yorkshire pudding. Where in this city can I find it, because I'm entirely too lazy to cook it myself?
If you're unfamiliar, Yorkshire pudding is an English side dish that traditionally accompanies roast meats (usually beef). It's made by combining the fat drippings from a roast with flour, butter, milk and about 8,000 eggs to form a crispy-on-the-outside, custardy-on-the-inside carb bomb that becomes all the more delicious when it's used as an edible sponge to sop up pools of salty brown gravy.
Our reader tells us he actually has a Yorkshire pudding pan at home (whatta bum!), but is hoping there's a restaurant out there that cooks up the specialty, either as a regular menu item or as a feature during a weekend feast (the pudding's typically associated with Sunday meals in the UK). Let us know in the comments if you've got any pan-dripping-soaked leads.
Not Philadelphia, but Stoney's Pub on Route 202 in Wilmington does roast beef with Yorkshire pudding on Saturdays - at least they did a year ago. If not, their fish and chips are "brilliant."
again, pretty far out; but, they serve an amazing roast and Yorkshire pudding at The Whip Tavern in Coatesville...by far the best I've seen in this area..
in town. i need it in this city!!!!!!!!!
closest thing I know of is the roast beef-stuffed Yorkshire Pudding at the Elephant and Castle (18th and Market)...
Don't think it's on the menu yet but the obvious candidate for killing this dish in town is Johnny Mac at Pub & Kitchen. I hope he is reading this.
The Pub In Cherry Hill has them free with the great old school steaks.
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| selleckwaterfallsandwich.tumblr.com |
Selleck Waterfall Sandwich is a Tumblr that features photos of Magnum P.I., accompanied by various sandwiches, Photoshopped into idyllic waterfall scenes.
The image above features our very own cheesesteak kicking it in a tropical locale with Mr. Baseball himself. You can tell it's a cheesesteak because it is wearing a Phillies hat.
Selleck Waterfall Sandwich is hands down the greatest Web site we have ever seen and it makes us question why we're even attempting to do this whole blog thing. Way to make us feel like Salieri, jerks.
Thought of y'all immediately first time I saw that tumblr. (Make you feel any better?)
[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Amy Strauss and Meal Ticket, Christine Fisher. Christine Fisher said: RT @mealticket: We will never, ever be able to come up with something as good as Selleck Waterfall Sandwich http://bit.ly/d1Go9S [...]
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| Courtesy of Green Rock Tavern |
Social comments and analytics for this post... This post was mentioned on Twitter by mealticket: Pierogie Week at the @greenrocktavern: http://is.gd/5RXXh...
loooooooooooove the Green Rock and its food
Dude, this starts on my birthday, you better get some pierogies set aside for me.
[...] Yates, whose Polish Goodness pierogi we’ve written about here on Meal Ticket, passes along word that Ida Mae’s Bruncherie (2302 E. Norris St.) is serving [...]
Last week, we told you all about the Vaudevillains Mummers brigade's "Philly Phood Phantasia" New Year's Day performance. Here's a clip of the troupe in action on Broad Street Jan. 1.
Apparently, one of the pizza slices in the clip is none other than Daily News gossip columnist Dan Gross. "I�ve known [co-captain] Hillary [Rea] and a few of the other Vaudevillains for a long time and loved their performances the last two years," Gross tells Meal Ticket. When Rea sent out a note welcoming new members to the troupe, Gross and his wife Holly � she was also a slice � jumped at the chance. "It was awesome," Gross adds. "Can't wait for next year."
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This was by far my favorite performance in the parade. So original.
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| Courtesy of Hillary Rea |
The Space 1026-associated Vaudevillains comic troupe made its Mummers Parade debut in 2008, and the group's chaotic but ultimately triumphant inception was chronicled by Ryan Creed in a Dec. '07 CP cover story.
Back then, they worked off the theme "Mummers in the Global Warming-Induced Perpetual Summer," and in the 2009 parade, they earned fifth place in the Comic Division for "Mummers in a Post-Apocalpytic Nuclear Winter." For the 2010 parade, the Vaudevillains are cutting their struts with a Food Inc.-style sensibility, fancily addressing big agribusiness with the theme "Philly Phood Phantasia."
Vaudevillains captain Tip Flannery, a friend of Meal Ticket, explains that the troupe's performance will address federal corn and soybean subsidies, aka the practice of the government financially rewarding American farmers for raising crops used to produce soybean oil or high-fructose corn syrup � "building blocks for fattening foods." Critics place at least partial blame for our country's obesity epidemic on this practice, which negatively affects consumers both health-wise and financially.
Yes, it's pretty heady stuff for a Mummers troupe to tackle, considering that most understand the backbone of the venerable Philadelphia tradition to be, well, fizzy beer-fueled buffoonery. But we're confident the Vaudevillains' performance will deliver the goods.
We're going to have to wait till this Friday to see just how it all plays out on Broad Street, but for now, here's a sneak peek at the Vaudevillains' Phood Phantasia costumes, as modeled by troupe co-captain Jay Roselius. (Thanks to co-captain Hillary Rea for the photos.) Above is the pizza costume that multiple 'villains will don (they'll come together to form a whole pie at some point in the performance). After the jump, a wearable pulled pork sandwich, and a lettuce/tomato costume that we're pretty sure will hoagie-fy something or someone.
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| Courtesy of Hillary Rea |
[...] sorry carcass Jan. 1, winners, winners, everywhere, don't get open-bar busted, a bellyful of bells• When food and Mummery collide: Vaudevillains NYB present Philly Phood Phantasia• New Year's Eve menu at Resurrection Ale House; New Year's Day birthday bash at Local [...]
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| TwitPic | Campo's Deli |
Campo's in Old City (214 Market St.) has put together quite the patriotic cheesesteak in honor of tomorrow's Army-Navy game at the Linc. The "Flying SUBmarine" ($8) is your choice of meat (chicken or steak), roasted tomatoes in blue cheese sauce, American cheese (USA! USA!) and crumbled blue corn tortilla freedom chips. It's too bad it's available this weekend only, as we wanted to eat this sandwich while blasting Van Halen's "Running with the Devil" on a hot pink boombox from inside a voting booth/riding in a tank wearing a sweet helmet and waving the stars and bars/gently petting an eagle on its majestic bald head.
[...] one thinks of Campo’s Deli (214 Market St.), “vegetarian-friendly” might not be the first descriptor that comes to mind. But now the Old City staple is adding a cheesesteak to its ever-growing vegetarian menu, featuring [...]
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| Courtesy of The Wrap Shack |
The Wrap Shack Kitchen & Bar (120 S. 18th St.), which recently renovated and landed itself a liquor license, has come up with a variation on the never-gets-old roast pork sandwich. All the insides are the same � six ounces of sliced-thin pig, sharp provolone, saut�ed spinach (not rabe), hot peppers or horseradish � but they're twisting it all up in a white, wheat, tomato or spinach wrap. (If this hurts your or your Uncle Sal's soul too much, you can also get it on a long roll, don't worry.) It's usually $7.95, but the Wrap Shack's offering the sammich for $5 today (and every Friday) from 6 to 8 p.m., along with $3 happy-hour pints of Lager or Coors Light.
A wrap, the adult contemporary version of a burrito, is truly the Kenny G of sandwiches. - Paraphrased from the class "is a burrito a sandwich?" thread on Unbreaded. I fucking hate wraps.
hahahaha! The Kenny G of sandwiches. I'm gonna use that one. This sandwich is way too soggy for a wrap, anyway.
Whoa, haters. Why does everyone on the internet have to be so snarky and rude?
I just wish Yanni were here. Kenny G would be a wrap, all right.
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| japanprobe.com |
Chef Ryo Igarashi and his wife Nicole are saying early 2010 for Maru Global Takoyaki, a Japanese street food-inspired BYO at 255 S. 10th (between Spruce and Locust). Takoyaki are basically tempura batter balls studded with meat or fish (most traditionally octopus) and garnished with bonito flakes or other flavor enhancers.
There are endless variations of the lil' fritters, which are cooked in specialty pans (see right) � Igarashi will do octo, shrimp, beef and chicken varieties, in addition to specialty takes like the Philly Cheesesteak (top sirloin, caramelized onions, cheddar b�chamel) and a pizza rendition with mozzarella. He'll also be cooking up non-takoyaki eats like rice bowls, yakisoba and fun fusion-type items like Japanese curry burritos (!).Prices will be affordable, ranging between $2.99 and $9.99; they'll be open for eat-in and takeout Monday to Wednesday from 11 to 9 and Thursday to Saturday from 11 to 11.
It'll be interesting to see how Igarashi's takoyaki stack up to those of his former boss, Jose Garces, who fell in love with the dish during overseas filming for The Next Iron Chef, and will add it to his menu at Chifa.
This is so exciting! A long-overdue addition to Philly's somewhat limited non-sushi Japanese scene.
This is what I think of when I read the word "Maru" http://laughingsquid.com/maru-the-cat-loves-to-attack-boxes/
[...] Maru Global Takoyaki is looking to open in January. Ryo Igarashi, a Jose Garces alum will be serving up tempura batter balls that coat meat, fish and most traditioanally, octopus. [Meal Ticket] [...]
this seems like such a niche market, but i'm excited about it! can't wait for the curry burritos!
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