August 29, 2007

What I ate during my summer vacation

Last weekend I went to Boston with the sole intent of revisiting some of my favorite late adolescent haunts - ice cream joints, farm stands, lobster shacks, candy stores and a restaurant or two. I didn't have as much time as I would have liked to accomplish all my culinary missions, but those I did complete I photographed and posted below. Its hard to fit everything in to two days!

The next five entries all document some part of my weekend, though not necessarily in chronological order. I left a number of meals out - sometimes an ear of corn is just an ear of corn. And sometimes its huitalacoche*.

*corn smut...the Mexican "truffle"

Aug 29, 2007 6:38:20 PM | Stuff I Like

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