Category: Journalism
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Eat Standing Up: Mexico City
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(Originally appeared in Heavy Table’s The Tap Newsletter, subscribe here.) Sit down restaurants are nice. I have nothing against sit down restaurants. But when checking out a new city, you don’t always want a time-consuming dining “experience” at every meal. Street food is freedom. Get served on the sidewalk. Eat…
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Hot Five: The Palm Springs Edition
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(Originally appeared in Heavy Table’s The Tap Newsletter, subscribe here.) Black Manhattan from Paul Bar/Food $16 You find yourself huddled with 30 or so strangers under the awning of an aging strip mall between a massage parlor and a vape shop staring at a locked door beneath a generic sign…
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Swede Hollow Cafe in St. Paul, MN
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A large brass bell hangs from a leather strap at the top of the front door. Tacked behind it with clear packing tape is a pocket pack of tissue. It’s a ridiculously simple contraption. When you open the door the bell swings and smacks the tissue, ringing out a muffled ding and…