By Jane and Michael Stern Originally Published 1998 Gourmet Magazine Last autumn during Virginia’s apple harvest, Mrs. Rowe of Staunton was a very busy individual. She and her son, Mike, went to a nearby orchard and trucked home ten bushels of York apples. For weeks, Mrs. Rowe peeled those apples every morning—by hand, of course, … Continue reading Staunton Virginia
Staunton Virginia
July 31st, 2019 by Lorelai Dunn
Pizza
July 22nd, 2019 by Lorelai Dunn
By Jane and Michael Stern Originally Published 1995 Gourmet Magazine What Kentucky is to bourbon and Havana is to cigars, Connecticut is to pizza—the capital, where the benchmark is set and excellence assumed. Nowhere else on earth are there so many good places to eat pizza; why, it’s practically impossible to find a bad one … Continue reading Pizza
O’Rourke’s Diner
July 17th, 2019 by Lorelai Dunn
By Jane and Michael Stern Originally Published in 1994 Gourmet Magazine Clad in shining steel and accoutered in neon and Naugahyde, diners are cheap thrills, American style. Although most are in the urban east, where the handsomest among them were manufactured in the thirties, forties, and fifties, they fit in anywhere you find them, on … Continue reading O’Rourke’s Diner