I love Scotch eggs, have even tried to make them myself several times.  They’re classic bar food in Great Britain.  But they’re a perfect breakfast food too.  I learn that at Helser’s on Alberta here in Portland, Oregon.  Alex Helser serves them with potato pancakes.  Mmm.  I’m getting ahead of myself.

It’s actually raining pretty hard [...]

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It’s Friday, March 5, and we’re in Allegany County (that’s how they spell it in south central New York state.)  We spend the day at a rural restaurant called Cartwright’s Maple Tree Inn.  Incredible.  At a relatively slow moment in mid-afternoon, Ryan Krumm tapes me doing a quick “stand-up” in the kitchen, and tonight before [...]

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If you find your way to our web site for BREAKFAST SPECIAL, and you mouse over the dish of bacon & eggs there, you can see the check slip that says “Taste A Place.”  There we are putting up small video “tastes” of the stories that we’ve shot.
Kevin Conrad is editing them.  We’re using Buddy [...]

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Who is up at dawn on Valentine’s Day?  We are.  Your trusty WQED breakfast crew.

We’ve come to Tybee Island, just east of the city of Savannah, Georgia, to tape a busy Sunday morning at The Breakfast Club, a legendary morning restaurant.  At 7 am, just as The Breakfast Club is ready to open, the sun [...]

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Saturday morning, the 13th of February 2010, we head out of Wytheville on I-77 and I-81, and soon follow the signs for Charlotte.  The sun is out.  The snow piles at the side of the road are diminishing.  Bob wonders where we will finally see no more snow.

In a bit of weather-weirdness, states across the [...]

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Friday morning.  February 12 2010.  We pack up the WQED van with suitcases and our camera equipment, sound gear, blank tapes, release forms, and three carrot-cake cupcakes made by Jackie at the Katerbean Coffee Shop in Regent Square.  Pittsburgh still hasn’t recovered from the recent snows, but we gotta go.

I think I have a good [...]

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[NOTE:  OK.  I'm out of order.   The sequence of events is off.   We made this  trip to Ohio before we went to Philadelphia, but because the blog publishes in reverse order anyway, its a confused timeline.   It doesn't matter.  It's breakfast that matters.]

So, we’re up really early on Friday morning, December 6, loading the van at [...]

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It’s Saturday morning, January 30.  We start to load up the van around 7:30 a.m. in front of the Marriott Courtyard.  It’s still frigid outside.  I’m driving; Bob’s co-piloting.  We follow the simple Mapquest directions to 1301 South 11th Street in South Philly, not 10 minutes from the hotel.

Carman’s Country Kitchen sits on the corner [...]

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It’s time for another BREAKFAST SPECIAL road trip.
Bob and Glenn and I get in the fully packed WQED van around 11 a.m. and head east out of Oakland for the City of Brotherly Love.  It’s a beautiful, clear, bitter cold day.  Glenn drives the first leg.  Bob in the passenger seat, me in the back [...]

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It’s already January 7, 2010. I’ve been way too lax about keeping up with this blog.  I will do better in the new year.
When last we saw our intrepid TV crew, they were eating ice cream at Tom’s Ice Cream Bowl in Zanesville en route to Columbus.  It was Thursday, December 3, 2009.
Truth is:  [...]

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