This week on Dining on a Dime, host Lucas Peterson goes to Pilsen, a primarily Mexican neighborhood on the lower west side of Chicago, to visit The Jibarito Stop, a food-truck-turned-restaurant that serves fantastic jibaritos. Using tostones, or fried plantains, in place of bread, the jibarito is crunchy, sweet, and in the running to become…

Across America, there’s a trend toward locally-sourced, fresh ingredients for one’s meals.  For agricultural communities like Whitewater, where many residents have large gardens, or enjoy fresh eggs, that’s not a trend as much as it is a way of life.  But other communities have seen a trend that encourages moving away from frozen meals, for…

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This week on Dining on a Dime, Lucas Peterson teams up with The Meat Show’s Nick Solaresto find the ideal meal for both their tastes: flavorful but inexpensive, and centered around beef. Their search leads them to the town of Massapequa on New York’s Long Island and a place called All American Hamburger Drive-In, an old-school burger…

Last week I embedded a Wisconsin Foodie episode with a local angle (Chef Tyler Sailsbery).  That episode was the second of the show’s new season.  Here’s the first episode, broadcast initially on 1.8.16, of a trip to the State Fair. In this episode, Kyle Cherek and Jessica Bell explore the fine culinary delicacies of the…

Wisconsin Foodie is a favorite program of mine. In the episode below, “Kyle [Cherek] visits the Michael Fields Agricultural Institute in East Troy, touring the grounds and sitting down to a white-linen dinner prepared by Tyler Sailsbery of the Black Sheep. This episode also profiles Dan O’Leary, who has been caring for the bees of…