Category Archives: food & dining
Dining diversity in Journal Square
Here’s one reason I enjoy working in Jersey City’s Journal Square: One of the best meals is from the dumpy-looking pizza joint, “Three Guys from Italy,” which is run by Latinos. Next door is a burrito joint touting authentic Mexican grub, which is run by… a couple of Chinese women.
Food porn
Buttermilk fried chicken from Chef E’s, with fried green tomatoes, spicy cabbage and mashed sweet potatoes. Ain’t it great when a dining experience is positively orgasmic? I for one, live for those meals. The first meal with the AAJA Link student staff at the AAJA convention in Minneapolis was one of those great foodfests.
Comfort food
Sometimes, you just gotta have comfort food — you know, meat loaf, mac and cheese, a nice chicken fried steak. Real mashed potatoes, not the just-add-water kind. And when it comes to comfort food, you can’t beat a great diner. So I welcomed my lunch date today at the Rocky Mountain Diner, even though it’s […]
Roll Your Own
I never got the attraction of cigarette smokers who roll their own smokes. Looks like a pain in the butt to me — har, I made a punny! But then, I never got the attraction of cigarette smoking anyway. But these days I’m into “rolling my own” when it comes to tea… green tea, that […]
