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The Revolution Starts Now – Tacos at Chicago’s Taqueria Chingon
These are not your father’s tacos. These are the tacos of revolution, the very apotheosis of a culinary uprising that seeks to ennoble and elevate the more traditional stalwarts of modern gastronomy through the ardent application of enhanced sourcing and technique, ultimately endeavoring to devise a new gustatory form wholly finer in function and flavor than…
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Don’t Look Back In Anger – Three Meals in London
London might well be the best food city in the world right now. Don’t believe me? Visit any of its high temples of gastronomy—St. John, or Trivet, or Bouchon Racine—and you’ll immediately see why its culinarians are revered as the vanguard of modern cuisine, and why its kitchens are rightly celebrated as bastions of culinary ingenuity and…
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For What Ails You – Nashville Hot Chicken at Chicago’s Fry the Coop
Every displaced Southerner I know has her own panacea for homesickness. For some, it’s a spoonful of Duke’s mayonnaise, eaten in secret, and often at midnight, by the light of an open refrigerator door. For others, it’s a cat’s head biscuit, slathered in bacon grease, and soaked in Crystal hot sauce, that allays all longing for home. But…
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Fire Walk With Me – San Francisco’s Chong Qing Xiao Mian
One meal. That’s all this layover in San Francisco will afford me: time enough to savor the gustatory essence of what many believe to be America’s greatest food city, summated in a single dish (if I’m lucky), and devoured in a single sitting. For that meal I choose Chinatown, a neighborhood of such auditory and olfactory exotica that…
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Welcome to Propaganda by Proletariateats
This blog is about food. Not the food of privilege. Not haute cuisine. This blog concerns itself with street food in its many permutations and sundry forms. The people’s food. The food that feeds the working classes of this sometimes-great nation. This blog also celebrates those culinarians—the street vendors, the food truck operators, the journeyman cooks—who…
Propaganda by Proletariateats
A Culinary Blogifesto
Propaganda by Proletariateats 