Category: Reviews
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Plonk & Pleasure: a manifesto
Well, baby, it’s been a year. Happy Birthday, blog. I haven’t even come close to reaching the goals that I set for myself when I started this venture. By the one year mark, I was really hoping to have at least 1,000 Instagram followers, some sort of income associated with my writing, and a local…
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Monday Night Tasting Dinner at Junk Ditch: Mondays have never tasted so good…
Sometimes I feel like the world is my oyster–and it’s rotten. My life hasn’t been all peaches and cream. I’ve had many moments that were starved of joy. Haven’t we all? I suppose that’s why when life is truly delicious, with whipped cream and a cherry on top, I try so desperately to savor the…
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Twist Food Truck: the plot twist in the local food truck scene that nobody saw coming…
I haven’t lived in Fort Wayne for very long by my own standards. I’m just coming up on two years and I still get very lost in this weird, wild city. But, I’ve been here long enough to know that 1) we love our food trucks and 2) we love a good smashburger. I thought…
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For Love of Pizza: I will never know a greater love…
I attended my second pizza night at Hawkins Family Farm and, although it almost felt like I was going against the wishes of the universe by attending, I had a beautiful evening. I invited a friend but she wasn’t able to make it, so I ventured on. Alone. A large section of the road heading…
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Great Breakxpectations: an anarchist guide to a happy breakfast…
You know what I hate? Breakfast foods. Hear me out—y’all know I’m a slut for some pancakes, I think French toast is a love language, and I’m a simp for sausage. So, when I say “I hate breakfast foods,” it’s definitely not that I hate the foods. What I hate is the concept of certain…
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Pizza Night at Hawkins Farm: Chef Rio is a pizza mastermind…
Anyone who’s read any of my blog or done even a cursory stumble around my Instagram can probably suss out: I’m a big fan of pizza. Genuinely, there’s no amount of money I wouldn’t spend, no distance I wouldn’t travel, no obstacle I wouldn’t overcome for the sake of pizza. (It’s easy to say when…
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Junk Ditch Huntington Tap: prioritize brunch…
Pre-pandemic, I was the queen of brunch. On any given weekend, I could walk outside of my apartment and there were at least five different brunch spots that I could choose from within walking distance of my humble abode–with endless possibilities if I was only willing to hop in the car. During my Brunch Queen…
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Junk Ditch Brewing: a good time a long time in the making…
Tonight was a big night for me. You see, years ago before I ever moved here, I visited Fort Wayne and had dinner at Tolon. On this occasion, my rockstar server chatted me up and ended up recommending that I check out Junk Ditch. I didn’t back then, because I was only in town for…
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Apocalypse Burgers: if the world is ending, at least we have good burgers…
Is it just me or have you ever dined somewhere and enjoyed it so thoroughly that you soon fell down a rabbit hole Googling what other food-centric endeavors the proprietors of the restaurant might be up to? This exact thing happened to me after dining at Petite Chou in Indianapolis. If you’ve been following my…
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Spotted Lanternfly Honey: an invasive species has never tasted so sweet
I don’t think it’s particularly divisive of me to say that invasive species aren’t really a good thing. Take the Spotted Lanternfly: after hitching a ride on a delivery of stone, it made its way from its native China to Pennsylvania where it proceeded to cause nearly $43 million in damages. Having previously lived in…
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