2008 March | Zingerman's Roadhouse

Zingerman’s Spicy Coffee Spice Rub

If you don’t know the story of how this whole thing started, Alex developed the Spicy Coffee Spice Rub a few years ago; it came out of a discussion with writer Francine Maroukian, who’d asked him to create a spice rub for Thanksgiving turkey that used coffee. What he came up with for her is this mix of ground Roadhouse Joe coffee, blended with a good dose of Urfa red pepper from Turkey, Portuguese sea salt, Telicherry black pepper from India and some ground cloves. The mix came out unlike any other spice blend I’ve experienced. It got a great write up a few years back in Esquire and it continues to make for really good eating today.

Dogs Love Bacon

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Maize ‘n’ Blue Hush Puppies with Bacon Fat at the Roadhouse

“Dig daddy, its a natural fact,
It’s sweepin’ the South, that thing they call the Bacon Fat!”

Andre Williams

I hate to admit it, but you know how certain really stupid commercials sometimes stick in your head to the point where, like ten years later, you still have them embedded in your brain and there’s just no getting them out? Maybe it’s just …

Maryland Crab Cakes at the Roadhouse

Crab cakes have been on my mind a lot of late—I’ve become ever more aware of just how many Roadhouse regulars tell me these are their favorite thing on the menu. Also because I’ve been writing about African American foodways and these have come up as one little asterisk of an item in that context. And lastly because I seem to been talking to a lot of Baltimoreans lately, most of whom I’ve mentioned below. One of them is Bonny …

Sorghum Syrup and Biscuits

The Maple Syrup of the Upper South

This October, I’m going to speak at the annual Southern Foodways Alliance symposium in Oxford, Mississippi, about the state of Southern food and why it seems to be so special. I’m not sure yet what I’m going to say, but one of the things that’s starting to dawn on me is that it’s not just that Southern food is really good; it’s that Southerners are way more poetic and emotional about their eating …

Green Goddess Dressing

Dramatically Good Salad Dressing

I’ve long been fascinated with this old time American salad dressing. Not sure why really—maybe it’s the name, maybe it’s that it has anchovies in it and I love anchovies. In any case, I’m convinced that Green Goddess Dressing one of the least known, most underrated American recipes, both at the Roadhouse and across the country, and I’m on the campaign to get the word out. Green Goddess is an American classic, and it’s really great …

Zingerman’s Spicy Coffee Spice Rub

Dogs Love Bacon

this item is currently on vacation

Maize ‘n’ Blue Hush Puppies with Bacon Fat at the Roadhouse

“Dig daddy, its a natural fact, It’s sweepin’ the South, that thing they call the Bacon Fat!”

Andre Williams

Maryland Crab Cakes at the Roadhouse

Sorghum Syrup and Biscuits

The Maple Syrup of the Upper South

Green Goddess Dressing

“Dig daddy, its a natural fact,
It’s sweepin’ the South, that thing they call the Bacon Fat!”