Stephanie March

Dateline: Philadelphia I’m here in the City of Brotherly Love for a few days and I have to say this is clearly a food town. Maybe not a food town like San Fran or New York where it’s almost a tourist trade, but more like a food town full of serious eaters. I’m not going … Read more

think outside of the fruit basket… I have not been a great friend of late. A couple of The Girls could use a little propping up, a little snarky laughter over lunch, maybe a day of beauty laced with The Macallan 12. But I don’t have time and we can’t seem to synch our schedules, … Read more

a plate from the Titanic? So…. I just hooked up with an old friend who happens to be engaged to a guy named Matt who happens to own the kick-ass Bulldog restaurant/bar in Uptown. They are scrub-scrub-scrubbing the place formerly known as Boom/Oddfellows in Nordeast to make room for the next Bulldog. This might irk … Read more

I think the gang at Lund’s has the right idea with their Food-E program. Having knowledgable food people in the store, existing only to answer questions and help customers is a great idea. But. I never see them when I need them. Or they’re in the front of the store and I don’t have anything … Read more

Lenny Russo was made for this. On October 3rd, check out a special dinner at Cue that challenges you to Eat Locally. The Bon Appetit Management Company, which runs the hospitality show at the Guthrie, has challenged Russo to come up with an entire meal made from ingredients within a 150 mile radius of the … Read more

What was once a kicky, quirky food magazine is now a kicky, quirky website. Chow was bought by the guys at CNet, about the same time they decided to re-work my favorite Chowhounds site. Now the two sites are working together to bring fun and un-stuffy food articles to eaters. With pieces on how to … Read more

The barn at Deer Lake Orchards. Suddenly, the weekends belong to the apple orchards. They’ve figured out it’s quite a business, luring familys with hot cider, mini-donuts, jumping goats and corn mazes. My cynical side bemoans the crowds and trampled fields and toddlers with farm cats in a love-strangle. But I am renewed when, during … Read more

Dear Crappy Restaurants, I know you probably don’t care, but just in case you are having a moment of self-reflection, please go out and buy the current copy of FastCompany magazine. The cover features the ragerific comedian Lewis Black, whom you should recognize as your typical customer: frustrated, agitated, walking away and screaming his story … Read more

here puppy, puppy I’m surprisingly OK with the upscaling/gourmandizing/Starbucking of the hot dog. Because once we get through lauding the foie dog, the salmon dog, the wasabi coated tuna dog, the kobe dog, the tofu dog or whatever they decide to come up with, there will be a backlash. All of a sudden classic hot … Read more