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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 this installment of The Good Word, we’re chatting with Hawk Krall and Kris Chau of Drawing For Food.  These two professional illustrators take a pen in one hand and a fork in the other, cataloging eats both fast (Moe’s Hot Dogs) and fancy (lunch at Del Posto).

No matter how hungry you are, what is one restaurant dish you always have trouble finishing?

Kris Chau:

Hawk Krall: I can eat two cheesesteaks in one sitting.  I’ve eaten 10 hot dogs in a day in 3 different states. But  can never finish a bowl of Pho.

What’s the most beautiful thing you’ve ever eaten?

Kris Chau:

Hawk Krall: Really hard question. I’ve had painstakingly laid out restaurant dishes that look like miniature modern sculpture. Mind-numbingly authentic, beautiful meals at a 100-year -ld bouchon in Lyon, or a boarding house in Savannah. And some incredible-looking hoagies.

In the end I went with something that I actually made (not my recipe) and ate while working as a line cook.   Nothing wild, just a perfect combination of comfort food and fine dining … not too gimmicky, and most importantly it was freakin’ delicious. One of a few dishes, that every time I made it, reminded me why I wanted to cook. And damn it looked good going out of the kitchen. Who knows if it ever made it to the table without falling over.

What’s your favorite Philly breakfast/brunch item? (it can be a specific restaurant dish, or just a regional specialty!)

Kris Chau:

Hawk Krall: Creamed chipped beef on toast all the way. Getting harder and harder to find here, especially made well. I like the gravy on the thick side … a lot of times it’s sort of runny, gluey and gray. Best I’ve had is outside of the city in Pennsylvania Dutch Country. Someone needs to get on a mildly fancied-up brunch version … with good white gravy and some 2-inch-thick country bread.

What do you look like after you’ve eaten way, way too much?

Kris Chau:

Hawk Krall:

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