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Amy’s Ice Creams

in American, Austin, TX, Dessert, United States, The Milky Way 2 comments

Austin, TX (The Joy of Food) — To visit Amy’s Ice Creams is to buy ice cream from Cirque du Soleil, a place famous for their high-flying ice cream acrobatics, where team members (‘ice cream heroes’) are trained (yes, paid) to do things like hurl balls of ice cream into […]

Roscoe’s House of Chicken and Waffles

in American, Comfort, Greasy Stuff, Meaty Goodness, United States, Los Angeles, CA 2 comments

Los Angeles, CA (The Joy of Food) — I’ve been visiting Roscoe’s since I was in college, when the door guy at the original Hollywood location would refer to me as “the girl who can’t parallel park” to the other guests. Like everyone else, I went there to see what […]

Fireman Derek's Bake Shop - key lime pie

Fireman Derek’s Bake Shop & Cafe

in American, Dessert, United States, The Milky Way, Miami, FL 0 comments

Miami, FL (The Joy of Food) — There is pie. And then there is Key lime pie. The Key lime is a special little fruit, substantial, acidic, and strongly fragrant, more in its aftertaste than in its first full-frontal hit. You could, I think, eat a whole lot of Key […]

Krystal

in Atlanta, GA, American, Greasy Stuff, United States 0 comments

Atlanta, GA (The Joy of Food) — Hell is real guys and it’s called Krystal, White Castle’s equally offensive southern brethren. Part of the menu here is called ‘Sackfuls’ which sound like something that should convert into an emergency pair of underpants. Sackfuls are actually dangerous pre-portioned packs of gut […]

Bagelsaurus

in American, Breakfast and Pastry, Carbapalooza, Cambridge, MA, United States, The Milky Way 1 comment

Boston, MA (The Joy of Food) — With a name like Bagelsaurus, I was really worried this was going to suck. No good, I thought, could come from a place whose logo sports a bagel-clad dinosaur. But the joke was on me. Everybody searches for that perfect bagel, and in […]

Azucar - Abuela Maria: guava, cream cheese, Maria crackers

Azucar Ice Cream

in American, Dessert, United States, The Milky Way, Miami, FL 0 comments

Miami, FL (The Joy of Food) — Azucar Ice Cream Company is the brainchild of Suzy Batlle, a long-time banker who left the corporate world to open her own ice cream shop and make things like Burn in Hell, Fidel ice cream, one of many off-the-beaten path flavors found at […]

The Balboa South

in American, Greasy Stuff, United States, San Diego, CA 0 comments

San Diego, CA (The Joy of Food) — Picture it. COVID 2020. After months of quasi-convalescence at my own version of Shady Pines during the apocalypse, here I sat in a cordoned-off parking lane over hot asphalt with cars whizzing by ten inches from my arm. I was only half-focused […]

Franklin Barbecue

in American, Austin, TX, Carbapalooza, Comfort, Greasy Stuff, United States, Meaty Goodness 1 comment

Austin, TX (The Joy of Food) — For many, Franklin is barbecue mecca, the promised land where you’ll find a magical pot of brisket, pork ribs, and other delicious delights at the end of a double rainbow. For a long time, Franklin has been considered the best, since 2009 really […]

White Castle

in American, Chicago, IL, Greasy Stuff, United States 0 comments

Chicago, IL (The Joy of Food) — White Castle is Dante’s tenth circle of hell. Once upon a time, I lived in Chicago and crossed the threshold of a White Castle a time or two in my ill-advised youth. The faint sewer odor of the steamed semi-translucent ‘patty’ served between […]