From inventive state fair dishes and retro glamping retreats, to seafood fests and epic road trips that tour our nation's kitschiest treasures, here's how to make the most of the sunny season (like it's your patriotic duty).
When I asked her why, she just laughed: "You kids wouldn't have touched that stuff!" True enough, and so for us -- this being suburban New York in the mid-60's -- she cooked a veritable world's fair of dishes: spaghetti and meatballs; beef Wellington; Chinese pepper steak; boeuf bourguignon.
But to be fair, you dished it out first.
After its appearance at the World's Fair, the olive dish became one of Steuben's most popular items.
Fair enough, the dish is addictive: fatty, salty, and crunchy with a sweet kick of chili-lime vinaigrette, garnished with leaves of baby celery and mint.
There are a fair number of dishes like these at Esca.
Characteristically, Drummond used a launch party for his memoirs at the Edinburgh festival book fair in 2000 to dish out headline-gathering insults.
It's appealingly old-fashioned, with typical Italianate dishes and fair prices and without tablecloths and pretension.
In addition to burgers ($5 on a hard roll, with lettuce, tomato, chips and a pickle), Salsa features a fair selection of familiar dishes like nachos ($7.50 to $10.50), quesadillas ($7.75 to $10), burritos ($8.50 or $9.75) and fajitas ($11).
They've written letters, signed petitions and defiantly consumed more than their fair share of deep-dish drinks in this temple of tropical kitsch at the top of Nob Hill, the white-glove neighborhood that is home to some of the city's grandest hotels and most exclusive clubs.
