First, a shoutout to the folks who amble to the fairgrounds toting bottles of water, sandwiches and baggies of carrot sticks. Bless your forethought and discipline. Say kind things about the rest of us, whom you’ll surely outlive, when we’re gone. Along with your excellent cholesterol counts, by forgoing the indulgences of the fair you […]
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Lumpia
Lumpia has always brought a sort of nostalgic discomfort to me — more specifically, to my stomach. Lumpia is simply a fried egg roll filled with ground pork and vegetables. But after coming face-to-face with it at every family party and eating them a couple hundred times, lumpia made an inevitable departure from my diet. […]
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Fried Pie
What could be more American than apple pie? Easy. Deep fried apple pie. And you needn’t wait until summer for some carnie at the fair to snuff out a menthol and drop a wedge of frozen pie into bubbling grease. Aim higher. Slice of Humboldt Pie (3750 Harris St.) makes fried apple pies you can […]