Staff Blog
SNACK TIME: does Whiz wit still apply?, swallowing his guilt, dropping know-how on the NY Times, more and less at Swift Half, 13th and Sansom pops off
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Every Wednesday, Meal Ticket pokes around the food blog world to see what’s simmering.
–Unbreaded scores big. FriedWontons4U blogger Shao shared her recipe for lobster cheesesteak with the sandwich fiends, who posted it up for the betterment of cheesesteak high-society.
–Phoodie.info picks over Ralph Cipriano’s Philly Mag piece on woebegone ex-senator Vince Fumo’s new culinary chops. Cipriano namechecks the politico’s Viking range, documenting Fumo’s penchant for mid-rare T-bone steaks and calling a certain South Philly staple sauce “gravy”.
– Stephen Starr’s been on a pizza-finding mission for the past few weeks, along with Inky food writer Rick Nichols, and the NY Times took notice, according to The Illadelph. The mega-restaurateur dropped some know-how on the Times, in case they didn’t know opening a pizza parlor is a shade easier than a 400-seat Asian-fusion palace.
– The Swift Half at the Piazza at Schmidt’s opened with a limited menu; now they have expanded things significantly, along with dropping almost all the prices, says Foobooz. Click over to check out the new offerings.
–Michael Klein, The Insider, has the deets on mulitiple projects happening at 13th and Sansom. The shuttered check-cashing shop will become Za Vino, while next door Marcie Turney and Valerie Safran are planning a Medi concept. The owners of Time and Vintage scheme away on Bar, set for around the corner, and a new orange liquor-license app has appeared at 122 S. 13th St. It’s Saturation Station!
