The tasty Seitan Shawarma from Pittsburgh’s B52 Cafe For all the hype meat substitute like the Impossible Burger and Beyond Meat have received in the past few years, perhaps the most original of O.G. meat-substitutes, seitan, has been creeping into more menus as well. Essentially wheat gluten, this has been used in Asian countries in cooking for centuries, though the word itself dates back only … Continue reading Could it be…Seitan?
An original and somewhat worse-for-wear mileage marker located outside the National Road and Zane Grey Museum in Norwich, OH The long road trip test isn’t always recommended for potential relationship testing, but it will almost always give you a definitive answer about viability of a partnership after a single experience. Our first road trip together covered at least 500 miles over a several day period. … Continue reading From Zane’s Trace to Outer Space: A Journey into Muskingum County
As mentioned in a previous blog post in the Autumn 2018, I have veered toward notable experiences with the area’s food trucks instead of comprehensiveness due to the sheer number of food trucks that roam Central Ohio these days. With that said, two of the three trucks featured here are well-established veterans of the scene which my spouse and I have had the chance to … Continue reading It’s Easy To Trace The Trucks of My Cheers (Summer 2019)
While I was alive at the time, I proved too young to have any real memories of the first moon landing in July, 1969, when Neil Armstrong first planted his foot on Earth’s nearest celestial neighbor on NASA’s famed Apollo 11 mission. My first space-oriented memories are shunted a little later down the road, with the last moon landings in 1972, followed by the Skylab … Continue reading To The Moon and Back
Maybe it’s just me, but my experiences with the old school, traditional Mexican Taco Truck can be summed up thus: I’ve never had a bad meal with a long-established traditional taco truck Even an average meal at a taco truck rates as a satisfying meal As time has marched forward since my move to Ohio, I’ve collected a lot of photos and notes on a … Continue reading Taking it To The Street (Taco)
The final print edition of Columbus Alive, which recently announced its online-only status like an increasing number of publications around the country The July 3rd edition of Columbus Alive marked a significant and increasingly unsurprising development in the publication’s history. The newsprint version of this weekly, which has history dating at least to the 1990s and most likely into the 1980s (see below), will go … Continue reading A Skillet and a Paper, No More
Our travels through Pennsylvania were covered extensively through the last three posts, but I’ve always ended our series with some places that didn’t conveniently fit the flow of my write ups, but are definitely worth a mention in some manner. Because of the flow of those posts, I wanted to include more detailed contact information for the places we’ve visited during our travels, like I … Continue reading I Got Six: Pennsylvania Travels Wrap-Up
City Center Philadelphia around lunch time, with a Halal Pakistani-owned Halal food carts on the left Granted, I have not visited all the big metro cities on the East Coast yet. But in terms of feel and bustling energy that only a big city has, Philadelphia feels the most like San Francisco to me, with a little more age and space added in, not to … Continue reading Give Me Broccoli Rabe, or Give Me Death: 48 Hours in Philly
As Abe Lincoln famously said, “Go Explore, Young Man” Leaving Pittsburgh and traveling eastward through Pennsylvania, we firmly had several National Parks in our sights as our main destinations. When it comes to the United States, the amount of and virtual age of this history tends to grow as you trek toward the Atlantic Ocean. On this trip, we ended up spanning the historical timeline, … Continue reading Stuck in the Middle With You: Keystone State Travels
The Point State Park Fountain, located at the confluence of rivers that gave Pittsburgh’s former Three Rivers Stadium its name. Heinz Field, current home of the NFL’s Steelers, lies across the Allegheny River in the background Pittsburgh, like many Midwest cities, finds itself in the long-term quest of reinventing itself A city traditionally known for its bustling steel industry and a blue-collar reputation, Pittsburgh has … Continue reading Three Days in the Land of Three Rivers
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