Dear Good Taste: Just started checking out the menus to Brandywine Valley Restaurant Week. What looks good you? Lots. I’m a fan of Brandywine Valley Restaurant Week , and not just for the two-course…
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Eat. Drink. Opera. Eat. Drink. Opera. Eat. Drink. Bed. That’s how you make a weekend disappear during the annual OperaDelaware Festival . Over the first weekend of this year’s Puccinifest (featuring Il…
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On my first visit to Wilmington, my future employers wined me and dined me in what was then Restaurant 821 on Market Street. As a starry-eyed 28-year-old with an appetite for food that I couldn’t…
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It’s hard to write about the BYOB scene in the Brandywine Valley because it’s constantly evolving – great for diners, tough on bloggers. I came here today to tell you about a really good cassoulet I…
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Well, this has been a year, hasn’t it? I look back on my eating habits in 2017 and find that I gravitated toward comfort foods in old familiar haunts – perhaps not the best thing to admit when you’re…
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Between the years 1996 and 2014, the number of Asian students at the University of Delaware nearly doubled to become about 5% of the total student population. [1] Is that what’s driving an incredible…
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In Delaware, we celebrate Thanksgiving every day of the year by putting fresh roasted turkey and stuffing and cranberry sauce on a roll and eating it for lunch and then again for dinner because what…
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Back in my corporate travel days, when I would regularly find myself jetting off to exotic lands like Cincinnati and Indianapolis and Rochester, New York (the Flower City!), I had to make it a rule to…
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The challenge came down from the staff at #VisitWilm: How many Brandywine Valley Restaurant Week menus could I sample in one night? I want to start here: This is not a recommended way to enjoy…
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So I won’t lie – this gig, it’s got perks. And one perk is getting the early scoop on things to eat around town before they get all popular and crowded. Working on a story for the upcoming 2017-18…
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