Pica Pica Maize Kitchen San Francisco, California It may come as a surprise that some of the most ingenious inventions or discoveries made over the years were not the by-product of countless man-hours slaving over a hot Bunsen burner, but rather the result of a happy accident; this list includes penicillin, x-rays, Silly Putty, and [...]
Meat Me In Harvard Square
Mr. Bartley’s Gourmet Burgers Cambridge, Massachusetts Up until a decade or two ago, Harvard Square was the kind of place where you could browse through record stores like Strawberries, and maybe pick up the latest Rolling Stone, Circus or Creem magazine at Out of Town News or Nini’s Corner (where the resident tabby cat would [...]
You Think I’m Psycho, Don’t You Mama?
Psycho Donuts Campbell, California It would be a forgivable mistake to dismiss Silicon Valley’s Psycho Donuts as a novelty store – the windows and glass doors on the otherwise normal-looking storefront in a tiny Campbell, California strip mall are plastered with vinyl decals depicting a white van full of grinning cracker-factory orderlies chasing a frightened [...]
Let The Paiché Bite Cha
Paiché Peruvian Izakaya Marina del Rey, California The fish approaches slowly, methodically – at three feet in length, the torpedo-like paiché (more commonly known as arapaima) is yet a juvenile, but his hinged jaw is capable of wreaking havoc on the waterway, the Steven Tyler of the pescatorian world. The armored paiché can breathe air, [...]
Proud As A Peacock
Peafowl Indian subcontinent Very few of the animal kingdom’s royalty flaunt their status in such resplendent pageantry as the peafowl – the male of the species is easily recognized promenading its flashy, iridescent, feathery finery in a mock display of pomp and circumstance. The female of the most common variety (the Indian, or blue peafowl) [...]
