With less than 30 minutes of airtime, Adam Richman’s “Man v. Food” Connecticut culinary adventure took him from Hartford to Newington to Meriden to Manchester. That didn’t allow for much time for him to do anything but chow down.
But the Travel Channel’s website, among other fun extras, has a video called“A Side Of City,” in which Adam strolls through Bushnell Park and quizzes locals about the park’s famed vintage carousel, the Wadsworth Atheneum, the State Capitoland the Bushnell theater. The two-minute clip doesn’t begin to touch upon Hartford’s rich history and culture, but it’s much more than what aired on the TV episode.
(Someone remind me that I posted this next time I make a New England’s Shooting Star joke.)
The 10-pound stuffed pizza at Randy's Wooster Street
Adam Richman of ‘Man v. Food’ is having himself some real Fun With Carbs on his Hartford episode tonight, taking on a stuffed-pizza challenge at Randy’s Wooster Street Pizza Shop in Manchester.
We are live-blogging this gut-busting episode tonight…read on!
Tune in to Travel Channel’s “Man v. Food” tonight at 10 p.m. to see host Adam Richman visit some of your favorite local haunts.
According to this Travel Channel itinerary, Adam visited Woody’s in Hartford, Doogie’s in Newington and Ted’s in Meriden before summoning the courage to take on a 10-pound stuffed pizza at Randy’s Wooster Street Pizza Shop in Manchester.
I could not get enough of the fantastic olive oil in Santorini. (And the feta, and the local white wine, but those are other stories.) We ate it with absolutely everything – bread, seafood, meatballs, salads, you name it. I don’t think I saw a single pat of butter in our ten days on the island. No wonder the Mediterranean diet is so heralded.
According to this article I just saw on The Food Channel, a group of young, Spanish chefs are equally as taken with the oil, enough to create inventive cuisine like olive oil sorbet, ‘semolina,’ olive oil butter and even an olive oil ‘gumdrop’ for dessert. Will 2010 be the year of Olive Oil?
Beyond olive oil’s trumpeted health benefits - yay monounsaturated fats - I just adore it. I collect it – I stock up on bottles with pretty labels when I visit Trader Joe’s, but those are reserved for dipping and drizzling. I recently found Filippio Berio on sale at Price Chopper for $3.99 – when it’s normally closer to $8/bottle. That’s my ‘everyday’ cooking oil. I’m sad to report that I only brought home one small bottle of Greek olive oil from Santorini, which I’ll be conserving as long as possible. I would have shipped home several more had I thought ahead…
Who out there loves olive oil as much as me? Do you wish restaurants would do away with pre-wrapped butter pats forever?
Our friends Kat and Ben are even wilder foodies than we are – they’ll spend their weekends scouring Whole Foods for exotic ingredients, traveling all the way to New York to visit a Bobby Flay restaurant or in Ben’s case, smoking a pork shoulder for 12 hours and topping it with homemade ancho-chipotle sauce. So when they recommended we try Lattitude in West Springfield, we sat up and listened.
Grocery shopping. I don't know if we've ever needed groceries more desperately in the years we've lived together. lolabout 30 minutes agofrom UberTwitter
Leeanne Griffin is a freelance writer and food enthusiast.