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A Sandwich a Day: Oyster Po'boy at Tupelo in Cambridge, MA
When Tupelo opened in 2009 to serve "comfort food with a Southern drawl," I was torn. On the one hand, I like to be comforted and I'm OK with most drawls. On the other hand, I'm convinced Van Morrison recorded "Tupelo Honey" just to distract us from how annoying "Brown-Eyed Girl" is.I might have stood in the middle of Inman Square staring at my hands forever if a kindly stranger hadn't said something about Tupelo's excellent oyster po'boys. I've never been to New Orleans and am no po'boy aficionado, but I'm game to try any noun preceded by "excellent oyster."A Sandwich a Day: Fried Oyster from Turf n' Surf Po' Boys in Austin
Turf n' Surf Po' Boys is a funky food cart in downtown Austin with a shipping container as a kitchen decorated with peace signs, a fishing net, and surf board. It's one of those places that makes you think, shoot, Austin, you truly are a special place. Most of the menu can come in either po' boy or taco form. Since this is not the Taco a Day column (!), we ordered the Fried Oyster Po' Boy.A Sandwich a Day: Fried Chicken Po-Boy from Khyber Pass Pub in Philadelphia
Po' boys in Philadelphia? I was skeptical too. The first good sign was the real-deal Leidenheimer bread shipped from New Orleans. No "thoughtful updating" or "Philly twists" here, just the classic po' boys assembled with care (although roast pork with greens on this bread would be amazing). Light, super flaky rolls dressed with mayo, mustard, lettuce, tomato and pickles. Then double layers of fried chicken liberally smothered in "debris gravy."New Orleans: The World's Longest Oyster Po'Boy
How long does it take to consume a 340 foot long oyster po'boy sandwich? About a minute and a half. That's what I learned last weekend during the 5th Annual Oysters Jubilee on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. Thirty of New Orleans' popular restaurants took part in creating what became the World's Longest Oyster Po'Boy Sandwich, an event that first began in 2007.Road Trip: Liuzza's New Orleans-Sicilian on the Block
After a long day of eating on the road, we pulled into New Orleans around dinnertime, looking forward to a relaxing sit-down meal and a chance to stretch our legs. We met up with local food writer Pableaux Johnson and headed over to a funky neighborhood joint called Liuzza's on the corner of Beinville and S. Telemachus in Mid-City. Serving New Orleans-style Italian cookery since the 1940s, Liuzza's has a chill-spot ambiance that invites you to kick back with a frosted schooner of Abita ale—just what we needed.Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 136: Can There Be a Po'Boy Diet?
We're headed all over the country for the book, but I feel compelled to tell you about our day in New Orleans on Tuesday, not because I'm looking for excuses, but just so you'll know what I am up against in my Serious Diet. We had a very specific eating agenda in New Orleans that day: to fully explore New Orleans' po'boy culture. Which means we ended up eating 23 sandwiches.Video: 2009 New Orleans Po-Boy Festival
As far as festivals go, the kind that celebrates fried food on bread is a pretty good one. This Sunday is the third annual New Orleans Po-Boy Festival. What exactly is a po-boy? Well, the definition isn't too concrete. You can put almost anything on a crunchy French loaf with sauce and call it a po' boy. Oysters, fried green tomatoes, shrimp, roast beef, ham and cheese, catfish, duck, barbecued meats. A bunch of New Orleans purveyors—including Acme Oyster House, Emeril's Restaurant, and Parkway Bakery & Tavern—will be stuffing miscellaneous foods (even French fries) into bread this weekend. And if you're somehow not that into po-boys, the festival will also feature another New Orleans sandwich icon: the muffuletta. Next...Po'Boy Preservation Festival This Weekend in New Orleans
It's good to know a po'boy preservation society exists. These dedicated folks organized the second annual Po'Boy Preservation Festival, happening this Sunday on five blocks of Oak Street in New Orleans. We were at last year's inaugural fest, and this year the same po'boy fanaticism is expected—panelists on the sandwich's history, a taste-test from local vendors, and even some love for the po'boy's Italian cousin, the muffuletta. Many theories exist as far as the naming genesis goes: a derivation of the French "pour boire" (literally means "to drink," but colloquially, a "peace offering.") Or they were the free sandwiches given to strikers (the poor boys) in a 1929 strike against a New Orleans streetcar company. Or just a Franglais...Will New Orleans Critic Brett Anderson Go Easy on the Big Easy Restaurants? Nope!
Photos from some of my recent trips to New Orleans. My friend Brett Anderson has just resumed reviewing restaurants in the New Orleans Times-Picayune for the first time since Katrina struck, according to the New York Times. He reviewed the classic New Orleans restaurant Mr. B's Bistro in his typically straightforward, clear-eyed fashion. Anderson lauded what he found delicious (barbecued shrimp) and fairly criticized what he found wanting (fried catfish). In other words he did what a good restaurant critic does. This is good news for Serious Eaters everywhere, who shouldn't need anymore reasons to visit the Big Easy to do some serious eatin'. When I last visited Brett in April he was already in reviewer mode, directing our...Hot Topics: Technique of the Week | The Food Lab
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