[Sca-cooks] Alton Brown News

Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius adamantius.magister at verizon.net
Wed Feb 16 14:01:03 PST 2005


Also sprach Terry Decker:
>How do you do coast to coast on a highway that only ran from Chicago 
>to Los Angeles?
>
>On the otherhand, I too get a kick out of travelling old highways. 
>These days I usually explore Route 66 and the Santa Fe Trail. 
>Unfortunately, the road food on Route 66 isn't much like it was in 
>the 50's.  Too much kitsch in the cooking.
>
>Bear

Don't you mean "cookin'"? ;-)

I vaguely recall Calvin Trillin writing pretty extensively about 
truckstop cookery, maybe in the late seventies, early eighties, and 
probably published in the Atlantic Monthly.

Adamantius
-- 




"S'ils n'ont pas de pain, vous fait-on dire, qu'ils  mangent de la 
brioche!" / "If there's no bread to be had, one has to say, let them 
eat cake!"
	-- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques 
Rousseau, "Confessions", 1782

"Why don't they get new jobs if they're unhappy -- or go on Prozac?"
	-- Susan Sheybani, assistant to Bush campaign spokesman Terry 
Holt, 07/29/04




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