Roadfood Digest

The title of this post describes the burnt ends sandwich, pictured above, that can be found at L C’s Bar-B-Q in Kansas City, Missouri.  Crispy, drippy, and luscious can also describe this impossibly overstuffed “sandwich” and you’d be hard-pressed to find burnt ends any better in Kansas City.  Jane and Michael Stern tell Lynne Rossetto Kasper that L C’s is ready to take its place alongside the other Kansas City greats in the pantheon of definitive KC barbecue.  Where do they tell her this?  Why, on The Splendid Table, Lynne’s savory weekend radio show, of course!  If you can’t tune in this weekend, you can listen online.

Check out the Roadfood.com reviews of L C’s here.

Here's a couple of WFMZ videos from the Allentown Fairgrounds Farmers Market in Pennsylvania.  In this first video, Stephanie Esposito talks to vendors and customers about the price-versus-quality considerations of shopping at the Farmers Market.  In the second video, Joscelyn Moes visits the market to learn more about succotash.  Succotash?  Yes, succotash: a mixture of corn and lima beans!

Those are chicken pies we photographed at the Allentown Fairground Farmers Market.  See our Roadfood.com review here.

The Portland, Oregon seafoodery and bar known as Halibut’s is the subject of discussion for Jane and Michael Stern’s visit this weekend with Lynne Rossetto Kasper, on her public radio show The Splendid Table.  Fish-frowner Jane actually likes the halibut-and-chips.  Michael is especially fond of the unusual salmon-and-chips, made with super-fresh Copper River salmon.  And, yes, the salmon is fried.  If you miss the show on radio, you can listen online.

Read Michael Stern’s review of Halibut’s on Roadfood.com.

Jane and Michael Stern answer some questions about Roadfooding for BudgetTravel.com.  Their best advice?  “Probably the biggest mistake is looking for something familiar. For us, the whole point of traveling is to experience the place we are, and that means eating the food people there eat, the way they eat it. That could range from Indian pudding in a Maine diner to carnitas tacos from a truck in South Tucson. In other words, be adventurous! Try new things! Meet new people!”

The photo shows fried chicken, macaroni and cheese, broccoli casserole, and fried green tomatoes at Mary Mac’s Tea Room in Atlanta, GA (Roadfood.com review), where they say they would begin a Southern culinary journey.

Today (Tuesday, August 12, 2008) at noon, EST, I will be fielding questions for Budget Travel's Online Trip Coach, the link for which is HERE. It lasts about an hour, and usually people log in looking for dining suggestions because they are about to take a trip somewhere. Please feel free to join in! (The picture above, by the way, is Wyoming 14 east of Cody.)

It's 1pm and the chat is over. For anyone interested, the transcript is posted HERE.

Jane and Michael Stern appear on this weekend's episode of Lynne Rossetto Kasper's radio feast known as The Splendid Table, where they praise the baked goods, from raisin pecan loaves to sticky, nutted morning buns (pictured above, from their Roadfood.com review), available at the pleasingly unadorably named Standard Baking Company in Portland, Maine.  If you can't catch the show on an actual radio, listen online.

Those are the words of Gary Greengrass, grandson of Barney Greengrass and owner of the century-old shop that bears his grandfather’s name.  As Barney Greengrass enters its second century of business in New York City, Alex Altman writes a story for Time magazine about what has kept this city landmark thriving for so long, and why it’s likely to thrive for many years to come.

The smoked sturgeon photo above is from Michael Stern’s Roadfood.com review of Barney Greengrass.

Many eateries make the claim that their cinnamon rolls are the best and biggest.  Jane and Michael Stern tell Lynne Rossetto Kasper, on this weekend's The Splendid Table, that the one served at Johnson's Corner, a truckstop in Loveland, CO, may well really be the best and biggest cinnamon roll in the land!  If you can't listen to the show on radio, you can hear it online.

See Michael Stern's Roadfood.com review of Johnson's Corner here.

This weekend on The Splendid Table, Jane and Michael Stern discuss, with host Lynne Rossetto Kasper, the incomparably luscious, smoky, fat-laced brisket to be found at Louie Mueller’s BBQ in Taylor, Texas.  You can hear the show on public radio; if that’s not possible, you can also listen online.

The photo above is from the Roadfood.com review of Louie Mueller’s.  Michael Stern says, “Just contemplate this beef. There is none better anywhere.”  We totally agree; Louie Mueller’s would make our all-time top-ten Roadfood list.

A Squeeze Inn burger comes dressed in a skirt, providing a crusty, crispy, chewy, cheesy chaw to nibble through as you channel your way to the one-third pound burger at the epicenter.  Jane and Michael Stern tell Lynne Rossetto Kasper all about it to open this weekend’s episode of The Splendid Table on public radio.  If you can’t catch the show this weekend you can hear it online.

That’s Erika & Jon’s photo of a Squeezeburger, from their Roadfood.com review.