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READ FULL REVIEW Meat-and-Three Zarzour’s Chattanooga, Tennessee Zarzour’s of Chattanooga, Tennessee, is a family-run lunch-only restaurant serving homey meat-and-3 meals, superb hamburgers, and millionaire pie for dessert. READ FULL REVIEW Bar-b-q Van’s Pig Stand Shawnee, Oklahoma One of the great Southwest BBQs and the pride of Oklahoma! Van’s ribs are superb, as is the pig sandwich: vividly-sauced pork bunned with zesty relish. READ FULL REVIEW Pizza Zuppardi’s Apizza West Haven, Connecticut New Haven, Connecticut pizza is great. Zuppardi’s of West Haven may be even better: the best white clam pizza on earth. House-made sausage, too. READ FULL REVIEW Sandwich Shop Cuban Sandwiches to Go Orlando, Florida A tiny eat-shack with only outdoor seating, Cuban Sandwiches To Go makes one of the best sandwiches in Orlando. READ FULL REVIEW GUIDES more guides Roadfood Favorites in Miami With ready access to fresh seafood, a thriving population of cooks from Latin America, and culinary culture that’s both tradition-minded and cutting-edge, Miami is a great place to eat. Among Roadfood favorites are exemplary Cuban food in the Little Havana part of town, smokin’ urban BBQ, Caribbean ice cream, and fabulous surprises up Fort Lauderdale way…. SEE FULL LIST Hash Tour of South Carolina 7 STOPS | 227 MILES | 4 hr 13 min Hash (on rice) is the star side-dish at barbecue parlors throughout South Carolina. A byproduct of whole-hog cookery, but frequently also made with beef, it can vary from soup-loose to stew-chunky. It delivers intense barbecue flavor, but beyond that dreamy duet of meat and smoke, it can vary from relish-sweet to savagely peppery. True Barbecue… VIEW TOUR Roadfood Favorites in Bend, Oregon For many visitors, Bend, Oregon is all about the outdoors: hiking, fishing, skiing, and biking at their best. If all that healthful activity and fresh mountain air engender robust appetite, the personable city offers a variety of good places to eat. Among the Roadfood favorites are bakeries, butcher shops, and food trucks, fantastic pizza, ridiculously large… SEE FULL LIST Local Authentic Eats from Las Vegas to Palm Springs 8 STOPS | 313 MILES | 5 hr 28 min Road Trip Overview This 5.5 hour road trip will take you over a total of 312 miles from the chaotic fast paced streets of Las Vegas to the relaxed town of Palm Springs just next to Joshua Tree National Park. With 3 fantastic restaurants in Las Vegas and another 5 in and around Palm… VIEW TOUR Eat Your Way Through Texas; Dallas, Austin and Hill Country 8 STOPS | 316 MILES | 5 hr 27 min Road Trip Overview With a total of 316 miles to cover on this food filled road trip, the predicted drive time is 5 ½ hours. Beginning 30 minutes outside Dallas, the second largest city in Texas, this road trip will take you through small towns and fields, as well as the city of Austin,… VIEW TOUR The Best Places for Pork Roll in New Jersey What’s Pork Roll? A New Jersey inamorata little known beyond state borders, pork roll, aka Taylor Ham, is pink like baloney but rugged-textured like salami. It contains enough sugar that when a slice is fried, it develops a caramelized crunch on its surface. It can be a plated breakfast meat (like ham) or the… SEE FULL LIST DISHES more dishes -- Frito Pie Casseroles layered with corn tortillas go back to Mesoamerica, but the Fritos pie (or, if you wish, Frito pie) cannot, by definition, predate 1932. That is when Fritos were patented by Elmer Doolin, who got the recipe from a streetcorner vendor and started selling them at his lunch counter in San Antonio. (Doolin subsequently invented the… READ MORE Snail Salad What Italians throughout New England call scungilli, Rhode Islanders know as snails. And while scungilli salad is fairly rare, snail salad is ubiquitous in the Ocean State. The creature in question is a sea snail, what south Floridians might recognize as conch –a very pretty mollusk in a spiral shell. It is boiled, its meat extracted… READ MORE Beef on Weck Beyond perfectly cooked and expertly sliced roast beef, the “weck” aspect of Buffalo’s favorite sandwich is essential. From the German word Kummel, meaning caraway seed, a kummelweck looks vaguely like an ordinary hard roll spangled with caraway seeds and coarse salt. But it is not ordinary. A correct weck is delicate, its freshness evanescent. Lightness is… READ MORE Lemon Icebox Pie When the climate is hot and a meal is spicy, no dessert is more refreshing than lemon icebox pie with its cool, sweet-tart equilibrium. It is popular throughout the South, but especially so in Memphis and down into cotton country. READ MORE Hot Lobster Roll Simplicity itself: hunks of warm, fresh-picked lobster bathed in butter and piled into a split-top bun that has been lightly grilled (in butter) on both sides. No mayo, no lettuce, no herbs or seasonings. Just sheer lobster-eating bliss. READ MORE White Clam Pizza White clam pizza was first served in New Haven in the mid 20th century. It is a simple pie, made with neither tomatoes nor mozzarella cheese – just freshly-opened clams, minced garlic, a dusting of sharp Pecarino cheese and a sprinkle of herbs. The elegant medley is really more a flatbread than a pizza, its crust… READ MORE FEATURES more videos -- Roadfood Adventures: Winter Park to Miami, Florida From Orlando and Winter Park down the east coast of Florida to Miami is a journey of never-ending adventure. Here you encounter brilliant sunshine, exotic wildlife, and bright urban energy, as well as an array of spectacular seafood, Latin-spiced specialties, and farm-fresh fruit. Must-eats include rock shrimp, El Cubanos, porky chicharones, and spectacular grilled cheese sandwiches…. VIEW VIDEO Roadfood Adventures: Selma to Montgomery, Alabama Sweet Home Alabama! … from Selma – Queen City of the Blackbelt – to Montgomery — the Heart of Dixie — is an inspiring journey through the Deep South. Selma is all about the birth of the 20th century Civil Rights movement as well as home to some of the best BBQ in the nation. Montgomery,… VIEW VIDEO Roadfood Adventures: San Luis Obisbo to Ventura, California Memorable food stops with meals that are California’s alone … sophisticated wineries and wine-tasting rooms: these are the pleasures of an oceanside drive through SLO CAL, named for its easy-going pace, part of California that retains Golden State allure. Much of it is still wide-open country, with a legacy of cattle ranches as well as restaurants… VIEW VIDEO Roadfood Adventures: Beulah to Moran Township, Michigan The northern part of Michigan is known to Michiganders and Midwestern vacationers as “Up North.” It’s a natural wonderland, surrounded by Great Lakes coastline, covered with forests and farms, and dotted with convivial taverns, town cafes, and remote restaurants with ambitious chefs as well as downhome diners and old-time drive-ins. It’s cherry and apple orchard country,… VIEW VIDEO Jane’s Diary: Quest for the Macrame Owl A few days ago I walked past a gift boutique in my home town and came to an abrupt halt. In the window display among the cute pink and green Lily Pulitzer shifts and novelty gifts for the golf nut in your life were two macram...