Posted November 13, 2013in Food Dude
Food courts have played an important role as entry level positions for American entrepreneurship. The historic indoor markets of Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston, New York City and Detroit have all launched [...]
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Posted November 06, 2013in Food Dude
At the turn of this decade, lunch was the new dinner. Flarah’s had just moved its lunch business into a larger spot in Beaverdale and opened the first of two [...]
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Posted October 30, 2013in Food Dude
Not long ago eating at museums, colleges and public buildings meant vending machines or boring cafeterias featuring bad coffee and stale pastries. No one did more to transform the local [...]
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Posted October 23, 2013in Food Dude
Bread might be the staff of life, but noodles are its bliss. Their brilliant simple paste of unleavened flour and water has been improving the quality of dinner for at [...]
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Posted October 16, 2013in Food Dude
The idea of visiting several restaurants with a group of people has served me well as a tourist. That’s probably why the great culinary cities have many such tours. Mandi [...]
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Posted October 09, 2013in Food Dude
The great story of Iowa in the 20th century was that of people migrating from the state’s small towns and rural areas to a few cities and suburbs. Small towns [...]
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Posted October 02, 2013in Food Dude
In romantic lore, food is the universal language that brings people together to appreciate their similarities and understand their differences. In history that doesn’t work so well. As often as [...]
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Posted September 25, 2013in Food Dude
Local science businesses are frequently cited when civic leaders tout the cosmopolitan makeup of central Iowa. Our restaurant industry rarely gets credit for such things despite its extraordinary record for [...]
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Posted September 18, 2013in Food Dude
A hundred years ago, our civic leaders were debating a ban on food cart vendors in Des Moines. Arguments sounded much like those against food trucks today: They were eyesores [...]
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Posted September 11, 2013in Food Dude
Twenty three years ago, civic leaders asked Mario Gandelsonas to visualize future development of the city. That architectural theorist, a devout French Post Structuralist, made drawings of Des Moines inspired [...]
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