Posts Tagged ‘Arizona’

Top 12 favorite Ice Cream Scoops

June 8th, 2022 by Michael Stern

WITH THE EXCEPTION of the hot dog bun, there has never been an edible invention as useful as the ice cream cone. Eat it all and leave nothing behind but a napkin. No need to sit down, and only one hand is required. We’ve hardly ever met a cone we didn’t like, but these are … Continue reading Top 12 favorite Ice Cream Scoops

Still Saucy After All These Years

August 19th, 2019 by Lorelai Dunn

By Jane and Michael Stern Originally Published 2008 Gourmet Magazine In 1901, there were fewer than 7,000 cars on America’s roads. Just 40 years later, Duncan Hines’s guidebook Adventures in Good Eating was pinpointing hundreds of gems worthy of a detour. Here are 11 that were already on the map at the time of Gourmet’s inception in 1941. … Continue reading Still Saucy After All These Years

Grazing Arizona

August 19th, 2019 by Lorelai Dunn

By Jane and Michael Stern Originally Published 2007 Gourmet Magazine Many years ago we came across an amazing hostelry south of Bisbee, Arizona, called Shady Dell, a cluster of eight mid century trailers, each meticulously restored and available as lodging for the night. At the entrance to Shady Dell was Dot’s Diner, a minuscule hash … Continue reading Grazing Arizona

Praising Arizona

August 8th, 2019 by Lorelai Dunn

By Jane and Michael Stern Originally Published 2002 Gourmet Magazine There used to be a roadside tourist attraction out West that had a sign warning visitors, “Prepare to Be Amazed.” That’s what we’d say to anyone coming to eat at Tucson’s Taqueria Pico de Gallo for the first time. Technically speaking, this small gem is not in … Continue reading Praising Arizona

Sentimental Journal

August 5th, 2019 by Lorelai Dunn

By Jane and Michael Stern Originally Published 1999 Gourmet Magazine Route 66 never had an official name like the Ozark Trail or the Merritt Parkway. Mapped out in 1926 as a federal highway that would run diagonally, rather than the typical north-south or east-west, it connected Chicago to the California sea, and as history was … Continue reading Sentimental Journal

Shady Dell Trailer Park

July 31st, 2019 by Lorelai Dunn

By Jane and Michael Stern Originally Published 1998 Gourmet Magazine The two-lane highway south of Bisbee, Arizona, cuts through reefs of hard copper rock and then curves around a traffic circle. If instead of pressing south toward Mexico you stay the leftward course and orbit back toward the old mining town, you might think you’ve … Continue reading Shady Dell Trailer Park

Gimme Shelter

July 29th, 2019 by Lorelai Dunn

By Jane and Michael Stern Originally Published 1997 Gourmet Magazine After a good day of boldly eating where no food writers have eaten before—truck stops, diners, smoke shacks, even the occasional scurrilous road-house that anchors its chairs to the floor so they can’t be thrown through windows—we have to fight the urge to seek out … Continue reading Gimme Shelter

Cafe Poca Cosa

July 22nd, 2019 by Lorelai Dunn

By Jane and Michael Stern Originally Published 1995 Gourmet Magazine Situated in an unprepossessing slab sided hotel called the Park Inn International in Tucson, Arizona, Café Poca Cosa is the finest Mexican restaurant in town and one of the best in the Southwest. To eat here is a dining-out experience reminiscent of the magical world … Continue reading Cafe Poca Cosa

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