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Chicken dinner is all America's homespun meal, but it is dished out differently everywhere you go. Rhode Island likes its birds presented family-style, with pasta shells in red...
Even before New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin declared Arthur Bryant’s BBQ the best restaurant in the world, Kansas City, Missouri, was known as one of the great BBQ cities of America. Developed by pitmasters who came from both Texas and the Deep South, its smoke-pit cuisine includes butter-tender beef brisket as well as meat-laden spare ribs; and sauce in this town is always a big, thick tomato-based deal, ranging from sorghum sweet to incendiary. Kansas City also is the first place to offer the now-popular BBQ delicacy, burnt ends, which is known on some local menus by its older name, brownies. Beyond BBQ, Kansas City is the home of what may be the best fried chicken dinner anywhere, at Stroud’s, as well as some of the heartland’s plushest steaks, at Jess & Jim’s, whose building is lorded over by a huge fiberglass Angus cow.
Chicken dinner is all America's homespun meal, but it is dished out differently everywhere you go. Rhode Island likes its birds presented family-style, with pasta shells in red...
Unique Regional Dishes After 40 years and 5 million miles spent on the road looking for America's best regional food, we've assembled a list of the quintessential, must-eat food in...
Road Trip Overview Beginning in Kansas City, Missouri and heading along Interstate-70 toward the heart of Kansas, this 284 mile long road trip will take participants to a variety of...
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The Real Thing Barbecue's newfound nationwide popularity has put burnt ends on menus across the country, but in all too many cases, the burnt ends are bogus. The best burnt...
Even before Calvin Trillin declared Arthur Bryant's to be "possibly the single best restaurant in the world" in a 1974 Playboy magazine article, Kansas City was famous for barbecue....
Many restaurants serve steak, but some places are dedicated to it. Although no great steak house is cheap, some of the best are extremely informal (like Doe's Eat Place...
Fried chicken is popular all across America and so different everywhere that it is not possible to say what city, state, or region does it best. While the process...