• Chicken Family Style at Hollyhock Hill in Indianapolis

    We’ve experienced or heard tales of family style fried chicken served at a number of great places over the years. The Monte Ne Inn, in Arkansas. Chicken Annie’s in Kansas. Zehnders in Michigan. Slogar in…

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  • Prelude Breakfast Bar

      We’ve mentioned before that the Bentonville/Roger’s area of Arkansas has become a hotbed of new restaurant concepts. Whether it’s the proximity to Walmart’s global headquarters, the almost-Southern feel of the town, or the ties…

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  • The Best Pizza in Italy? Try Napoli.

    Travel is back in full, and some destinations are of particular interest… Travel is back in full, and some destinations are of particular interest this year. One of those is Italy, thanks to 2025 being…

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  • Destination: The Gingered Peach

    If you ever wanted to own a bakery, The Gingered Peach is likely the place you dreamed of opening. It’s cute in a professional, someone-has-given-thought-to-this kind of way. But the star of the show is…

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  • Cookbook Review: Dishing Up Virginia

    When in Virginia, do as the Virginians do, right? When it comes to food, that means taking home a Virginia cookbook so you can replicate some of the best recipes at home, wherever that may…

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  • Comfort Food & Serenity Farm

    Sometimes you just need the comforts of home, even when you aren’t anywhere near home. That’s when local places such as Serenity Farms come into play. We found this mostly-bakery shop along one of those…

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  • How Pizza Has Changed

    Pizza used to be regional. If you were in New York, you just got New York pizza. If you were anywhere else in the country, there was a different style. New Jersey pizza can be…

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  • Blue Mountain Brewery – Destination: Virginia

      A tasting at Blue Mountain Brewery in Nelson County, Virginia, is about more than the beer. It’s about comfort, relaxing, ensuring you have the right fit for your dining and drinking pleasure. It’s more…

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  • Destination: 14 Mill Market

    14 Mill Market is a new food hall opened in a small town–but making a big impact. It’s a place for morning meetings and evening kickback-and-relax time. You have multiple choices for food and drink,…

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  • Route 11 Chips – Destination: Shenandoah Valley, Virginia

    Can we change up the old adage to say, “Get your chips on. . .Route 11”? OK, so it may not evoke the same memories as the old Route 66 song, but the statement is…

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  • Pippin Hill Winery

    Destination: Shenandoah Valley, Virginia

    Economic development is on every community’s agenda right now. The impacts of the Covid lockdown on the food industry were massive, and many are just starting to peek out from the past and check the…

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  • Fin's Ale House Crab Cakes

    Destination: Rehoboth Beach, DE – Fin's Ale House

    Ask around for a good restaurant in Lewes, Delaware, and the name Fin’s Ale House & Raw Bar is almost sure to come up. When it does, run, don’t walk. It doesn’t matter if you…

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  • Of Picnics & Turnpike Food

    A story for summer road trippers… We recently made a trip down the Pennsylvania Turnpike, something we’d managed to avoid for years. It seems the turnpike is always under construction, and the tolls get higher.…

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  • Jefferson's Pickle Burger in Joplin, Missouri.

    Destination: Joplin, Missouri

    Joplin, Missouri is known for a few things, including a few notable restaurants. Historically, it is probably best known as the place where Bonnie and Clyde holed up in a residential garage, leading to a…

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  • Food Worth Waiting For

    It seems as though any time a restaurant is new, lines form to get a taste of the latest and greatest. Those lines make people unhappy, and their expectations go up. Servers become harried because…

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  • B. Dylan Hollis Videos

    Food TikTokers You Should Know: The Crazy Comedian Vintage Recipe Tester

    It’s not unusual to find people on TikTok or Instagram putting old recipes to the test — often with great trepidation. It is unusual to find someone who combines the zinging one-liners of Rodney Dangerfield with…

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  • Just a short distance from Kansas City�s upscale Country Club Plaza, replete with fancy restaurants and caf�s, you can drop yourself smack dab into a renowned dive, called Westport Flea Market Bar and Grill.

    Visit Kansas City: Westport Flea Market Bar & Grill

    Just a short distance from Kansas City’s upscale Country Club Plaza, replete with fancy restaurants and cafés, you can drop yourself smack dab into a renowned dive, called Westport Flea Market Bar and Grill. It’s…

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  • The Big Biscuit is one of those specialty restaurants (with several locations, mostly in the Kansas City area) that hang their hat on one thing, which in this case is a decent sized biscuit. They called them "award-winning biscuits." While I'm not sure who hands out that kind of award, it's fine - I'd give them one for their biscuits, which were fluffy and delicious.

    Dining Out: The Big Biscuit in Kansas City

    You know how, when you are traveling, you wish you could just stop a few locals on the street and ask them where to eat? Problem is, in today’s economy, half of them won’t be…

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  • Upon first tasting the Hot Southern Honey, using my finger, the ultimate honey dipper, I was surprised at how the taste progressed. It starts sweet and rich like an all-natural honey should, but the flavor changes as it hits your palate, finishing with the perfect amount of heat. The company's slogan is, "Where Sweet Meets Heat!" and it's fitting. The honey couldn't be described as spicy, it isn't a spicy flavor, but rather a gradual and subtle heated finish of chili infusion.

    AR's Hot Southern Honey: Food Channel Finds

    Food Channel Finds is our way of bringing information and opinion on some of the latest products to hit the market! These might be interesting food items seen as we walk a trade show, on…

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  • Stock the Crock by Phyllis Good

    Stock the Crock: Cookbook Review

    The ‘Crock Pot’ has a long history, first dating back to the inventor Irving Naxon who applied for a food heating device patent in 1936 to create what he called the Naxon Beanery. The heating device…

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  • Scrambling For Breakfast: Publisher's Corner

    Always one to jump on the latest food items out there—including fast food—I recently checked out the latest breakfast offering from Chick-Fil-A: the Hash Brown Scramble. To Bowl Or Not To Bowl It was advertised…

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  • Take your choice of beer

    Billy Goat Tavern and the World Series

    The Chicago Cubs (along with the Cleveland Indians) are in the 2016 World Series, so it’s time to confess our love of the Billy Goat Tavern. After all, it’s closely tied to the Cubs’ record…

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  • Did vintage Halloween decorating change the way we think?

    The Death of Halloween

    Halloween might be my favorite time of year—considering I have a pumpkin patch whose single purpose is to supply me with ample jack-o-lanterns, it’s pretty much a given. Halloween has always been the time of…

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  • Bruschetta with Olive Cream Cheese

    Food Channel Finds: New Flavors from Philadelphia Cream Cheese

    We’ve started a new Food Channel Finds podcast, focusing on some of the interesting and new food items or locations we find in our travels. It’s our goal to bring these products to your attention…

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  • The Twisted Olive

    When a food lover takes only one photo during a lengthy meal at the restaurant, you know that person was more immersed in the food experience than anything else. The flavor of the food, the…

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