http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/rick_nichols RSS Feed for Inq Col Rick Nichols en-us Fri, 25 May 2012 01:11:45 GMT 2012-05-25T01:11:45Z en-us http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/rick_nichols/20120524_Rick_Nichols___The_resurrection_of_Bartram_rsquo_s_Bitters.html Had you stumbled upon the well-scrubbed crowd in the tented courtyard at historic Bartram’s Garden one evening last week, you could not be faulted for thinking you’d discovered a country wedding reception under way beside the old medicinal herb beds. The scene offered requisite trays of passed hors d’oeuvres (a pale sliver of pork over white bean puree seemed popular), and punch bowls scented with strawberry and lemon, and busy cocktail stations. Fri, 25 May 2012 01:11:45 GMT http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/rick_nichols/20120524_Rick_Nichols___The_resurrection_of_Bartram_rsquo_s_Bitters.html 2012-05-25T01:11:45Z http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/rick_nichols/20120308_Rick_Nichols__Fruit_of_the_duck__N_J__farmer_extols_the_egg_s_riches.html The roadside sign propped at the foot of the driveway up to Gull Cottage is hand-lettered and resolutely plainspoken: "Duck Eggs," it offers, and below that, as an obligatory postscript, "Chicken Eggs." Sun, 11 Mar 2012 02:50:46 GMT http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/rick_nichols/20120308_Rick_Nichols__Fruit_of_the_duck__N_J__farmer_extols_the_egg_s_riches.html 2012-03-11T02:50:46Z http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/rick_nichols/20111117_Rick_Nichols__Sweet_news__Shane_s_candy_store_finally_looks_ready_to_reopen.html An entire Christmas season has gone by. And a Valentine's Day. And, no less dismaying, an Easter since the Berley brothers began their clean-out and stubborn, nearing-the-finish-line reclamation of Shane Candies, the faded Old City stalwart. Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:00:00 GMT http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/rick_nichols/20111117_Rick_Nichols__Sweet_news__Shane_s_candy_store_finally_looks_ready_to_reopen.html 2011-11-23T14:00:00Z http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/rick_nichols/20110915_Rick_Nichols__The_fight_for_pure_food__Easy-to-swallow_government_regulation.html WASHINGTON - Visitors patrolling the aisles of the National Archives' best-attended show in years last week may have felt curiously at home, though the images on display - warnings about toxic candy, putrid tins of Chicago-packed meats, and ketchup bottles blowing their tops - were hardly soothing. Thu, 15 Sep 2011 10:34:12 GMT http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/rick_nichols/20110915_Rick_Nichols__The_fight_for_pure_food__Easy-to-swallow_government_regulation.html 2011-09-15T10:34:12Z http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/rick_nichols/20110828_Words_that_many_found_tough_to_swallow.html Cheesesteak virgins find out the hard way when they order wrong at the take-out windows of South Philly. The protocol is to order "Whiz wit," meaning, of course, Cheez Whiz with onions. Fri, 02 Sep 2011 14:56:30 GMT http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/rick_nichols/20110828_Words_that_many_found_tough_to_swallow.html 2011-09-02T14:56:30Z http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/rick_nichols/20110102_A_calendar_for_the_ages.html We have grown accustomed to - no, make that attached to - the calendar on the wall of our kitchen that reproduces the vintage drawings from something called Album Benary, an archive so foreign to us that we have long assumed (wrongly) it was of Italian extraction. Thu, 19 May 2011 21:23:15 GMT http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/rick_nichols/20110102_A_calendar_for_the_ages.html 2011-05-19T21:23:15Z http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/rick_nichols/20080501_On_the_Side__Ripening_too_early_for_ancient_rhythms.html We find ourselves on the cusp of an ambivalent May, the first, fragile blush of spring already fading - a special breed of Jersey broccoli rabe, so tender it can be eaten raw, finished; good-bye, too, to the feathery, early dandelion greens (saluted with their own annual banquet in Vineland), gone. Thu, 19 May 2011 21:20:52 GMT http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/rick_nichols/20080501_On_the_Side__Ripening_too_early_for_ancient_rhythms.html 2011-05-19T21:20:52Z http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/rick_nichols/20070419_On_the_Side___The_steak_kings_take_a_bow.html At the Bridge Cinema, 40th and Walnut, the royalty of cheesesteakery was on hand Saturday morning for what was billed as "the exclusive world film premiere" of This Is My Cheesesteak, hot from the editing monitor in Ben Daniels' dorm room at Syracuse University. Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:54:12 GMT http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/rick_nichols/20070419_On_the_Side___The_steak_kings_take_a_bow.html 2009-07-28T15:54:12Z http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/rick_nichols/20090728_Hoagies_the_way_theyre_supposed_to_be.html I have come to pay homage at the unadvertised shrines of true hoagie art deep in South Philly's rowhouse warren, far from the Wawas and Subways and their bubblegum bread. Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:04:17 GMT http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/rick_nichols/20090728_Hoagies_the_way_theyre_supposed_to_be.html 2009-07-28T19:04:17Z http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/rick_nichols/20090728_Wheres_the_beef__Still_at_Nicks.html Inquirer Food Columnist Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:49:58 GMT http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/rick_nichols/20090728_Wheres_the_beef__Still_at_Nicks.html 2009-07-28T18:49:58Z