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Perhaps nowhere is America’s melting pot heritage more obvious than in our food. Visit Gullah Restaurant near Charleston for authentic low country cuisine. Head up to Maine to savor the freshest lobster possible. From breakfast to a midnight snack, we’ll help you enjoy a taste of America.
Trader Joe’s
You don’t have to be a nonconformist or a geek to like Trader Joe’s. But it probably helps. If you don’t have a Trader...
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Food Trucks
It may seem like food trucks are a recent phenomenon, but they’re not. They’ve just migrated from blue collar workplaces, like...
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Velveeta
The Kraft folks call it “liquid gold.” And just before the Super Bowl, we were told by the Cheese Powers-That-Be that we could...
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Philadelphia Cream Cheese
Is there anything that doesn’t taste better with some cream cheese added? It’s a rhetorical question – of course there...
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Cheerios
General Mills really stumbled onto something in 1941 when they made some oat cereal shaped like little “O’s. But they...
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“Joy of Cooking”
If ever a cookbook deserved to be a Great American Thing, this is the one. Sure, you could argue for Julia Child’s Mastering the Art...
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Schooners, Bloomington Illinois
I recently had the pleasure of speaking about Great American Things with Scott Laughlin of WJBC Radio in Bloomington, Illinois. During the...
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Sliders
I loved these before they got their own name. Used to be they were just small burgers, until some smart marketing person (maybe working for...
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Nabs
Now, I understand the traditional term “Nabs” for peanut butter crackers (and by association, other packaged crackers) is...
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Parker House Rolls
If you’d been a visitor to Boston in the second half of the nineteenth century, chances are you might have desired a room at the new...
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