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March 16, 2008
Mac's Acadian Seafood Shack (Saline)
Here is my favorite restaurant - where we go to celebrate things (job, birthday, Tuesdays, you get the idea).
I think they would be safe to add recipes to their site - because the cook things so well, that you will always go back.
Had the steak salad the other day as a change - it was...great. But my favorite dish is the Cajun Spiced Pecan Whitefish - Man that is good!
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Lacroix at The Rittenhouse
Lacroix at The Rittenhouse, our all-new trademark Philadelphia restaurant, voted "Best New Restaurant throughout the United States" by Esquire Magazine (November 2003) and "Best New Restaurant in Philadelphia" by Philadelphia Magazine, serves succulent Progressive International cuisine. All food prepared at this award-winning restaurant in Philadelphia is overseen by acclaimed Executive Chef Matthew Levin.
NOTE: Also went to this restaurant at ALA in Philly - This was an amazing meal. I wish they would post some recipes.
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Matyson (Philadelphia)
Matyson (Philadelphia)
Casual sophistication just off Rittenhouse Square
37 S. 19th St., between Market and Chestnut
Went this is restaurant during ALA in Philadelphia - What a great meal. I am going to try to remember what I had and update this post. But if you find yourself in Philly - add this to your list.
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March 07, 2008
The 'True' Story of the Caper Fairy
NOTE: This was inspired about a discussion of olive-sized capers (Roland Wild Caperberries) that was given to me by the 'Caper Fairy.' It inspired this....
Its all coming back...in 18th Century Lithuania, kids would lose teeth and put them under their pillow for the Caper Fairy. The good children would get the Wild Caperberries and be able to make, for their parents, gigantic Salad Nicoise. This was a plan put into place by misguided parents who thought they could gain wonderful meals by hinging the acquisitions of some of the ingredients to a right of passage that all children go through. This complemented the tradition among Lithuanian children who do well in Middle School to get tuna steaks for each "A."
Sadly, the desired outcome was not in the cards for these Lithuanian parents. Students revolted by doing poorly in school (thus not 'earning' tuna). They also developed a clandestine dental education program to extract baby teeth at school so the parents never knew that the Caper Fairy had to visit. The two outcomes of this still leave an imprint on world culture and cuisine. The small group of parents who conceived this idea were banished and settled in Paris. This is why Salad Nicoise is considered a 'French' dish. Second, almost every dentist in the world can trace their lineage back to Lithuania.
It must be true - I found this on the Wikipedia.
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