Essay #8: General Tso’s Chicken
America Tried to Keep Them Out. Then America Kept Ordering.
250 Dishes That Made America
Founder & CEO of Goldbelly. For twenty-five years, food has been my way of reading America: what people miss, argue over, send when words aren’t enough, and refuse to lose. 250 Dishes That Made America writes the American food record, one dish at a time.
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Essay #7: GUMBO - America didn’t melt. It stirred.
On Holy Thursday at Dooky Chase’s, the line starts forming on Orleans Avenue before the kitchen is ready for it.
Essay #6: Lobster Roll - From Punishment to Pilgrimage
300 years ago lobster was punishment. Now it's a pilgrimage.
Essay #5: Bagels
Do not toast it.
Essay #4: Nachos
Nacho invented Nachos. That is all he kept.
THE 250 DISHES THAT MADE AMERICA
A year-long national project to write the American food record. One dish, one story at a time. Commissioned on the occasion of the 250th Anniversary of the United States.
ABOUT THE PROJECT
Creating the Official American Food Canon
ESSAY #3: Biscuits
The secret was always the woman nobody wrote down
ESSAY #2: Hot Dog
A German sausage, a Jewish story, an American argument.
ESSAY #1: Fried Chicken
Fifteen cents for a leg. A nickel for a wing.