The TESCO streetcar in Tampa is clearly a tourist-driven mode of transit, but that’s a good thing–having a free, easy-to-understand way to get around a city, even if it’s just part of it, is something that is helpful for tourists who are unfamiliar with a city and want to get to know it better. The…
The TMFP gift guide for 2022, including everything from caviar to swimming headphones to cookbooks.
Last year in her excellent gift guide, Helen Rosner urged her readers to consider giving someone the gift of caviar and lightly-salted Lay’s potato chips as a wonderful indulgence. While I can certainly get on board with the caviar and chips suggestion, as someone who grew up right by the Pretzel Belt I cannot endorse…
Eggs mayo with persillade from À Table.
It’s Thanksgiving week, and hopefully you are all set with your menu for your meal…but in case you’re not, may I present this wonderful recipe from Rebekah Peppler’s À Table as an option: eggs mayo with persillade. If you love deviled eggs but wouldn’t mind a slightly less labor-intensive dish to serve as an appetizer,…
Images (not) from New York, downtown Tampa edition.
When M had to spend most of a week in Tampa back in August, I decided to tag along because airfares were reasonable–it helps to live near a Southwest hub–and my only prior experience of Tampa was when I spent the day at Busch Gardens when I was fifteen on a school trip. I was…
Uitsmijter: the ham, egg, and cheese sandwich for any time of day.
The bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich may be king in places like New York for good reason, but I’d like to take a second to sing the praises of the Dutch version of this sandwich: the uitsmijter. An open-faced sandwich of ham, egg, and melted cheese, it’s a simpler version of a French croque madame…
A twist on the classic tomato pie pizza to usher in Pizza Season.
This October here in Baltimore has been a little cooler than it has been in recent years, so we brought out the Baking Steel on a recent Friday to start pizza season now rather than wait even a few weeks for it to get really cold and gloomy. For this time around, I kept it…
Trenette alla carrettiera with roasted garlic inspired by Made in Sicily.
This pasta dish is kind of a North-meets-South Italy mashup, as the trenette pasta shape originated in Genoa and Liguria, while the pasta sauce is one that is distinctly Sicilian. I went with the trenette for this particular dish because it’s been one of my favorite types to make recently; I received a trenette cutter…
Chicken liver spread with pancetta on toast, or: a return to sabor de soledad.
Since I’ve been able to join M on a lot of trips recently, it’s been a minute since I’ve had the kitchen to myself for a few days while he’s on the road. Recently he had to go to Atlanta for a show, and as we had both been to Mexico the week before, I…
Images (not) from New York, injured in South Florida edition.
Back in the middle of July, I was in the midst of doing deadlifts when I felt one of my trigger points go, and immediately I knew I would be in trouble. There’s a tiny muscle in your glutes called the piriformis, and it controls stabilization and more importantly, it’s right up by the sciatic…
The Hemingway on the Beach from Perch Los Angeles, but at home.
Much like the Last Train to Priorat at Boqueria was a sign that I should probably get a bottle of Luxardo maraschino liqueur, my first sip of Perch’s Hemingway on the Beach was the deciding factor to finally pull the trigger because I knew I wanted to make them both at home, and well, I…
The Manhattan [food] Project 