The Good Word is a new weekly Meal Ticket feature where we ask Philadelphia food people questions. We’re going to start by highlighting the city’s many excellent food writers and bloggers, with eventual plans to extend beyond the scribeosphere. The questions will be different every week unless we come across a really sweet one we want to reuse. Want to nominate a future Good Word candidate (yes, you can nominate yourself), or submit ideas for questions? E-mail drew.lazor@citypaper.net.

In the inaugural installment of The Good Word, we’re chatting with Arthur Etchells, founder and editor of Foobooz.com, the three-year-old site that PW critic Adam Erace has referred to as “the Moses of Philly food blogs.” The Good Word indeed.

So Art — what’s the worst thing about food blogging?

Worst thing about food blogging has to be the way food becomes this insatiable siren. There’s always something new to try. An old favorite you’ve neglected. And then you feel a bit guilty as you cook up some Trader Joe’s chicken dumplings. And you never should feel guilty about TJ’s dumplings.

What’s your favorite hangover cure in the city?

Hangover cure is the Reading Terminal Market, especially since it is now open on Sundays. People talk about getting something greasy and fried. But there’s something about a DiNic’s roast beef sandwich that makes me feel like a human again. I think it’s the sharp provolone. Opens my sinuses up. And if that doesn’t do it, keep eating, there’s tons of stuff around you.

What bar do you go to when you don’t want to run into anyone you know?

The Dolphin.

Name a Philly restaurant you wish was open 24 hours, and why.

As much as I’d like to pop in for some tapas at Amada come 3 a.m., I think I’d go with John’s Roast Pork. That way, the late-night cheesesteak run would actually taste good, and there would finally be a place to get a great roast pork sandwich after dark.

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