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Yummy! Good Morning America just gave me a good reason to travel across America – food!!!! Here’s what they found during their trek in search of the best restaurants:
[At Primanti Brothers in Pittsburgh] start with big bread, some grilled meat of your choice, cheese, a fried egg, fries and slaw — not on the side, but right on the sandwich. It’s a Pittsburgh staple that has been filling up truckers and 2 a.m. revelers since the 1930s.
Then, as if from a different world, there’s Barton G on Miami Beach. The fresh grouper comes with a dancing toy fish, the drinks with rose petals.
In Seattle, their dish is the salmon that was swimming just hours before. “Look for how pink it is, or something about how fresh it is, or how to roll it up,” one Seattle chef said.
The view is like no place else — and then there are the crab legs, oysters and a cobbler made from wild mountain blackberries that grow only in the Cascades.
We got so many great suggestions on our journey — our friends in Sacramento even sent their chopper up to show us the way to their favorite joint, The Squeeze In. It’s a tiny place so popular that it’s hard to get a seat at the counter at 10 a.m. It’s tradition to watch “The Price Is Right” and order the Squeezeburger with cheese — so much fried cheese it circles the burger like the rings of Saturn.
At all our stops, we discover it’s not just the food, it’s the soul of the place and the people that give it that soul — people like Victoria Chavez. She’s 72 years-old and still makes tortillas by hand at Los Dos Molinos in Phoenix.
From Southwest spice to southern charm, we visited Atlanta’s “Watershed,” where chef Scott Peacock cooks only with ingredients grown and raised nearby. Tuesday is fried chicken night.
Peacock spills some of his secrets, starting with Georgia chicken, raised nearby.
“After a day in the salt bath, we put it in then we put it in a buttermilk bath, helps it complexion, then we just use some soft white flour. None of this is hard, it’s just attention to details — that’s all good cooking is about.”
Emily Saliers of ‘The Indigo Girls’ is also one of the owners of “Watershed.”
“Food nourishes your soul, not just your body — same with music,” Saliers said. “It’s not like you eat this hummus and break into song, but almost.”
You can read more of Peacock’s recipes in his book, The Gift of Southern Cooking.
Delicious!!!! I wish I could try it all!