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No, you don't get it. Anything you can get in NY, you can get somewhere else. Either NO, Dallas, Houston, Miami or Atlanta. NY just has more restaurants and more pretentious critics that think the world starts and ends in NY. It doesn't.
Yankee food is bland, tasteless. I've been there, done that.
Stopping at Golden Corral in Toledo doesn't count.
If you are going to buy good seafood, buy it from the source. I would not buy bluefin tuna in grocery store in Alaska any more than you should buy king crab or wild salmon in Florida.
What do you think Lombardi's is, Krogers?
Um, where do you think I get pompano, redfish, grouper, oysters, shrimp and such from?
Lombardi's IS the source for things of that nature.
They fly the non-native critters in, so they are the source for that as well.
Elitist newspaper doesn't, in fact, call southern food undignified.
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Ahhhh ovcatto, I never said it was from the NY Times article did I?
Go back and click on the link I posted in the OP
I did. The I clicked on the link going to an NYT column heaping praise on traditional Southern food. Neither the blogger nor you appear to have read (or at least understood) the NYT piece.
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You people have a way with twisting words around don't you?
Nah. Twisting words around would be a headline like "Elitist newspaper calls southern food "undignified"", particularly when the one single word you placed in quotation marks ("undignified") doesn't even appear in the article.
Falsely attributing quotes is considered lying in quite a few places.
But everything in NYC can be found elsewhere too...
That's pretty much the point to me. Almost everything out there can be had almost anywhere. Certain foods are going to be better in certain places -- Cajun down south, Kosher deli and bagels in NYC, Chicago deep dish in Chicago, New England Clam chowdah in New England. Chefs elsewhere will do a darn fine job (provided they are good at what they do) but they will be limited by the availability of fresh regional ingredients.
It's all good people!
That stated, would someone please send me a Red's Eats lobstah roll, please?
I spent some time in southern Utah this summer. One place that looked horrid, and I couldn't imagine setting foot into, had a very unappealing moniker:
The Chuck-O-Rama CHUCK-A-RAMA : HOME
Yes, I get the play on 'Chuck Wagon' western cuteness, but really, all this easterner could think of was Up Chucking.
When you read reviews on urbanspoon.com or trip advisor and others, the cleanliness factor is also an issue...not so cute....and if managers at these "buffets" are making 18k a year its safe to assume the conditions are less than ideal....ugh, its not an elitist thing to refuse to go to 11.00 buffets and get Hepatitis B or typhoid.lol
Out of curiosity, did any of you actually read the NYT article? Because I did, and it's actually quite complimentary of Southern cuisine, and talks about the food-to-table movement, and the Southern revival.
We've got good options in Maryland. A little bit of everything. Fancy cuisine (the restaurant "Volt" by Bryan Voltaggio comes to mind), small truckstop food joints, some good BBQ (although we're a bit too northern for the best), lots of ethnic cuisines especially near DC. And far less of the snobbiness about it compared to the far North.
And yes, we even have Applebees and the like. As I said, a little bit of everything. But the best is definitely the crabs... mmm.
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Elitist newspaper doesn't, in fact, call southern food undignified.
