“If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.” –Abraham Lincoln COFFEE REBORN Growing up in the era where Maxwell House, Folgers and Taster’s Choice were considered coffee, it’s no wonder the world’s most ubiquitous drink became a milk-filled sugary concoction by mid-century with only a vague relation to the complex nuanced taste of real coffee. It was the space age – the age of Tang, freeze-dried, dehydrated everything. Something complicated made easy. Drink it black? Nearly impossible to do, and so nearly no one did. But along came three guys –...
Mystery Dinner With ...
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Even after nearly 30 years, the Classic City (Athens, Georgia) almost never ceases to amaze me in terms of how much it continues to offer, how it manages to remain fresh, how it continuously spawns new and different. Somehow, for a small town, it possesses the right formula to incubate a...
Bubby’s and Th...
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Food in NY, how can you go wrong? Well if you don’t have a memorable experience then maybe you did go wrong. We certainly had one at Bubby’s. I ate there twice on this visit, mainly because for that second time it was getting late and I wanted to go somewhere where I knew...