How great are coffee shops? Not only do they provide cups of coffee, but they provide a wonderful place in which to meet. When you need to meet with someone, but meeting at your home or office is just not practical, a coffee shop provides a great neutral venue. In years past, business leaders often met in smoke-filled social clubs or over three Martini lunches at restaurants, but with the passage of time, the coffee shop
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We hope to give you some “food for thought”! This list features good food and came from our staff, friends and readers. Just good meals: breakfast, brunch, lunch, dinner, or even a snack. We didn’t ask about the parking, the service or the price. We simply asked, “What’s your favorite meal, and where do you get it?” Whenever you can’t decide where you want to go
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Like most Pittsburghers, we at Popular Pittsburgh are a practical lot, interested in preparing delicious dishes with the least fuss and with ingredients that don’t require a loan from the bank. Thanksgiving is a well-known day for eating. To help you prepare for your feast, we’ve included recipes for some essential dishes. We’re giving you the easiest, tastiest, and most economical way to prepare them.
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Thanksgiving is a time for friends and family to gather around a table of magnificent food. There’s a lot of pressure to deliver a Norman Rockwell masterpiece and it’s not always easy to know how. Cooking the turkey may be one of the most confusing and overwhelming parts of the Thanksgiving meal. FEMA estimates that 60{0d5dd585d9b39b579093aa9482eb8a5d8629194f7aeab9d63fd29672a0772753} of fires on Thanksgiving Day are cooking fires. There
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The people who settled Western Pennsylvania were a resourceful lot, making use of everything at their disposal and wasting nothing. Those characteristics are still present in residents here today. The first settlers in this area faced a savage wilderness. They were isolated; they warred with the native peoples they were displacing; and their lives depended upon scratching out an existence from the untamed land. Most of
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In 2003, CBS News ran a segment on a California wine called Charles Shaw that was selling phenomenally well. The reason? Prior to the report, Charles Shaw’s Shiraz had beaten out 2,300 other wines to garner the gold medal at the Annual International Eastern Wine Competition. The wine was pretty tasty and cost a mere $1.99 a bottle. When CBS spotlighted the inexpensive wine, its
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In 1955, a butcher shop opened on East Street on Pittsburgh’s North Side. Sixty years later, that same shop can now be found nestled at the intersection of California and Termon Avenues in Brighton Heights. Tom Friday’s Market has been going strong for decades. The current owner, aptly named Tom Friday, is the third generation of butchers from his family. The store is founded on
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Everyone talks about the California wine country, but for oenophiles and those who just like a nip of the grape every now and then, you don’t have to travel all the way to the West Coast for a fun and an informative day of visiting wineries. Pennsylvania is the fifth largest producer of grapes in the country and is ranked seventh nationally in the number
Read the Full Article →It’s enhanced more hamburgers than Hamburger Helper. With French fries it has formed as perfect a union as peanut butter and chocolate, and it’s made the inedible edible. What is this marvelous, miraculous substance? Why, it’s none other than Heinz Ketchup, the taste loved ’round the world. Pittsburgh’s Henry J. Heinz Henry J. Heinz, the son of German immigrants Frederick and Margaretta (Schmit) Heinz, was
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Before making a visit to The Wooden Nickel in Monroeville, I looked at their menu and prices online. While the entrees looked to be top shelf, the cost was somewhat more than this frugal diner is accustomed to spending. “Is it a value?” I asked myself, as I often do. In order to find out, it’s off to The Wooden Nickel. Located at 4006 Berger
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