Category: food

Ending food safety inspections is a terrible idea

Ugh the gross negligence to public safety…it’s only a matter of time before this decision leads to something going horribly wrong.

— Z Nerdy Girlie (@butterflyforest.bsky.social) 2025-04-18T18:09:55.222Z

Public health and other experts are criticizing the Food and Drug Administration for how it handled a widespread E. coli outbreak linked to romaine lettuce.

— People Magazine (@people.com) 2025-04-18T11:00:54.831Z

People are going to die from contaminated food

— David Leavitt 🔜 #PaxEast (@davidleavitt.bsky.social) 2025-04-17T22:57:23.002Z

This is really bad, signed a historian of food safety

— Christopher Deutsch (@drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social) 2025-04-17T22:56:27.868Z

Articles and video on New Haven pizza

There are several famous pizza restaurants in New Haven. CT. This Washington Post article on Pepe’s reminded me of the film Pizza: A Love Story which is about several New Haven pizza places. I supported it on Kickstarter.

At Frank Pepe’s, a century of coal, clams and thin-crust pizza

The people have spoken. Congrats to Modern Apizza in New Haven for winning the Connecticut Pizza Capital Trail Contest!I'm so grateful to the State of Connecticut who organized this contest to showcase the amazing pizza Connecticut’s has! More here: bit.ly/4m6KxN4

— Rosa DeLauro (@delauro.house.gov) 2025-05-04T18:04:22.522Z

The two Gunning’s crab houses

The Instagram post below reminded me of the two Gunning’s restaurants, both long gone. There was the one in Brooklyn (the southern part of Baltimore). It wasn’t fancy but the crabs were great, Then there was the suburban one that, as a friend said, had the personality of an airport lounge. The food was good, though.

https://www.tumblr.com/retrobaltimore/88504232204/which-gunnings-was-the-real-gunnings

Corned Beef Row photos from the 1940s and 1970s

Baltimore’s Corned Beef Row (1000 block of East Lombard St.) is in the area where Jewish settlers originally moved. There are still a couple of delis left – Attman’s and Weiss’s. I had heard the area called Jewtown so I guess they cleaned up the pejorative aspect of the name by renaming it Corned Beef Row.

I remember walking along Lombard St. in the 1970s and peering into a storefront where they had live chickens.

There are now two delis left on Lombard St. – Attman’s and Weiss’s. Attman’s looks like it did in the 1970s when I moved here. Look at the photos of old politicians in the inside pictures on Yelp.

At Attman’s, you go through a cafeteria-style line to order. You can eat in a small dining room.

Attman’s has a new location at Harbor Point. It’s very modern with a bar and waiters. It’s more expensive but the food is still excellent.

The other deli is the Weiss Deli Weiss’s has all the atmosphere of your high school cafeteria. See the Yelp photos. Unlike Attman’s, they are not on any delivery services as far as I can tell. The menu is much smaller but the food is good.

Lombard Street Before It Was Corned Beef Row