A Bite of Beautiful Biscuits
We’re back in Pittsburgh, and while we were away, clever editor Kevin Conrad has been busy reviewing footage and playing with our interviews and b-roll. He makes the tantalizing “tastes” of the...
View ArticleA cool Cuban café on a very old Florida street.
Sometimes I feel hopelessly behind in my blog. Up till now, I haven’t written a thing about our one fine day in St Augustine, Florida, with Manny and Janett Herrero. This was back on February 17,...
View ArticleGritty video?
I’ve already written a bit about our visit to Anson Mills in Columbia, South Carolina, but now we have some video back-up too. It’s a “taste” of carefully produced heirloom grits.
View ArticleHelser’s and those beautiful Scotch eggs.
On a Tuesday morning like this, I wish I were in Portland, probably at Helser’s on Alberta. Yes, I wrote about our beautiful breakfasts there, but now Kevin Conrad has created this video taste of the...
View ArticleBuckwheat pancakes all you can eat.
Oh, there’s less than a week left to get yourself up to Cartwright’s Maple Tree Inn near Angelica, New York. This is the unusual place that serves buckwheat pancakes three meals a day but only for 8 or...
View ArticleWe went. Worth it.
Everywhere we’ve gone to shoot stories for this upcoming BREAKFAST SPECIAL, I’ve tried to ask all the people we’ve interviewed if they have a “Best Breakfast” of their lives. “Was there one morning or...
View ArticleWow. I’m sort of a cartoon character!
A wonderful and funny surprise! I’m animated! I’m like a puppet! I like it! So I was a little wary at first, but recently we’ve been partnering with KINGS restaurants around Pittsburgh here to promote...
View ArticleToo much good stuff.
OK. I’ve been ignoring this blog too long. When you get involved in the final phases of putting a program together, there are too many things to take care of, and on-line communications may suffer....
View ArticleLots of breakfasts still to come.
We have many breakfast stories still to tell. We loved our many morning meals (and interviews) at all 17 of the spots that we visited. We edited and squeezed only 8 restaurants into the first show, so...
View ArticleProposing BREAKFAST SPECIAL 2!
Yes, we’re working on a PBS proposal for a sequel of sorts called BREAKFAST SPECIAL 2: REVENGE OF THE OMELETS. We’re hoping to get enough funding from our friends in Virginia (that’s where PBS has...
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