“Can I borrow your lighter?” You’ll hear if you stand outside for more than a minute. A distinct smell of cigarettes hangs in the air outside the place and never seems to leave. You probably can’t see the inside from the outside. Curtains covers 80% of the windows, or they are stuffed with signs from…
When we think bad food, we typically state that England has some of the worst food on offer in the culinary arena. While I disagree with that, there are a number of cuisines with little exposure to the ordinary palate. Some that can be seen as strange, sad, or downright pathetic. To the subjective eye,…
Why Chili’s? Bar and Grill really rolls off the tongue. When you switch the words, well, you get Chili’s Grill & Bar. That’s not the only thing that offends me about Chili’s. Let’s rewind. I remember as a kid going to Chili’s pretty often. It was in the rotation with other casual dining options of…
Apizza (“Ah-Beetz”) Magic happened in 1925, when Italian immigrant Frank Pepe opened Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana in New Haven, Connecticut. Frank immigrated to the Wooster Square neighborhood and was a factoryworker, left during World War I to fight in Italy, then came back to New Haven to work at a bakery. Frank began selling tomato…
It was 2008 and I was finally able to work, having just turned 16 years old. I was excited and ready, but there was one thing standing in my way: a recession. The recession devastated my area in the Northeast, as it did most places. I remember stores closed for good, and there was an…
The school cafeteria, lunch time. It is shocking in retrospect that they only fed us once during the school day. That is a long time to go without food. You could feed yourself at breakfast or get a lazily composed breakfast sandwich in the beginning of the school day if you got there before school…
