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The files Kurlansky unearthed - some written by Eudora Welty and Zora Neale Hurston - reveal a weirder, more varied country. "Food is just part of the regional culture that's getting neutralized," says Kurlansky. "When I was growing up, I could tell what part of Connecticut someone was from just from...
Though Kurlansky has tried some of the recipes in his book - the still regionally popular Indiana persimmon pudding is a favorite - he admits that some of these old dishes aren't great. "For my taste, there's too much ketchup and canned food in these recipes," he says. "But I...
The Sterns, a married couple, have been hitting dives since the first edition of their classic, Roadfood, was published in 1977, do not agree with Kurlansky's contention that local cuisine is dying. "We're getting more homogenized. There is a lot of crap out there, but it is not...
Many hockey insiders are frustrated. "Quite frankly, I don't believe people know what Versus is, and I still don't know what they do," says Chicago Blackhawks chairman Rocky Wirtz, whose team will face the winner of the Detroit-Anaheim series in the Western Conference finals (broadcast on Versus...
"Nothing went wrong and there was nothing specific," Gates said of asking General David McKiernan, the outgoing commander, to step down just 11 months into a two-year post. "The focus here is simply on getting fresh thinking, fresh eyes on the problem." But McChrystal's role in the friendly...