Also known as poor man's gravy, a result of the few items needed to make it, Red-Eye gravy is a must try when eating breakfast in the South ..read more

Let’s play a game. Imagine you’re waiting in line for Sno-Caps and popcorn, anxiously checking your watch to make sure you don't miss the ..read more

Years ago, my lil nephew challenged me with, “I bet you don't know where the best cheesesteak is made, and it’s not in Philly ”. He was ..read more

In Binghamton, it's believed pizza was called hot Italian pie for the benefit of non-Italian diners who were otherwise unfamiliar with it ..read more

Cyril Callister was a sadist. Okay, I have no idea if that’s true or not and because I’m not entirely sure of the statute of limitations ..read more

I think the hair band Cinderella summed this foodigenous up best with their 80's monster ballad You Don’t Know What You Got (t'ill It's Gone). For decades every corner deli, coffee cart, bodega and quickie mart throughout NYC, North Jersey, Long Island and Fairfield County Ct have been selling Saran or wax paper wrapped, hard buttered rolls to go with a hot cup of coffee. And chances are, if you never left the area, it’s quite possible you would live your entire life assuming this affordable breakfast combo is common everywhere. It Isn't! I'm not implying "bread and butter" is a unique New Y ..read more

I’ve made the trip down I-95 South thru Connecticut dozens of times. Usually, it’s with the perfume of a half-eaten box of “abeetz” permeating from the back seat of my car. I’m sure I lamented a bad beat or two returning from one of the casinos. And then there was that one time I was stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic and got caught checking out my plump lips in the rearview mirror, engorged courtesy of Colony Grill’s hot oil sting. I gotta admit though, they did look pretty sexy. But no matter the reason, it seems like every time I’m in Connecticut, I catch a fleeting glimpse of an illuminate ..read more

This past December, Miele’s Restaurant unexpectedly closed its doors just shy of celebrating 70 years of serving old school Italian to Verona NJ locals. For some it was an unfortunate circumstance of today's economic climate. To others, it's more personal, like losing an aging relative that you shared generations of memories with. But for me it was a matter-of-fact reminder that the already endangered Shrimp Beeps lost another home.  For those of you that may not know what a Beep is, let me clear one thing up, Miele’s did not invent the lightly battered, butterflied jumbo shrimp sau ..read more

There’s something badass about this foodigenous, that's only found in the Northwestern suburbs of Philadelphia. Sure, at first glance the zep, an abbreviation for zeppelin, looks like a typical meat and cheese hoagie and in some sandwich shops it's used as a fugazi synonym, but a legit, authentic Norristown PA spawned zep is something very specific. There are rules to this ISH You can't get a ham, salami and cheese zep. You only get one meat on an "original zep", and it is salami; cooked salami to be exact which resembles bologna more than it does a traditional dry genoa salami. “Okay, I ..read more

I’ve had the pleasure of eating great pizza all my life. It's one of the privileges of living in the US Northeast: you know like paying high real-estate taxes and noshing on good bagels. It wasn't until I ventured outside the region though that I realized even our worst pizza is good, comparatively speaking. So, I wasn't entirely surprised to hear the opinionate backlash from my fellow Northeast Paisanos when I teased this frozen pizza story on Facebook. I would never eat that trash ! -Why not go down the street for the real stuff? -Your mutha eats frozen pizza! Burn Baby Burn Personally ..read more