Picks and Pans – Athens & Atlanta, GA

Athens is a cool little college town with a music scene recommended by the drummer of the rockin’ funk bank, Entropy, that we saw in Boone. Looks like it has some interesting art scene, but all the exhibitions were in transition while we were in town.

Atlanta is a funky city (Entropy is from Atlanta!), […]

Picks and Pans – Charlotte, NC

Charlotte is an interesting city with a rich history. Everyone outside Charlotte talks about it as a “banking city”, stemming from the HUGE banking explosion when North Carolina National Bank (now Bank of America) took advantage of a loophole in banking law that allowed non-bank entities to own banks across state lines. It does have […]

Picks and Pans – Baltimore/D.C.

PICKS: Birches

Tuesday night special: 2 burgers with a choice of 2 scrumptious toppings (e.g. gorgonzola carmelized onions and avocado) for $12, and that’s with fries!

Bertha’s

The mussels lived up to the hype. We all agreed that the tomato anchovy butter was the sauce of choice.

Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian […]

Picks and Pans – Philadelphia

PICKS: Mutter Museum

Wax models of syphilitic sores, conjoined twin skeletons, a section of human colon formerly filled with 40 pounds of feces and a whole lot more….basically all the medical oddities you might want to see in a day, or maybe in lifetime.

A Full Plate

Erica highly recommends the […]