The first project for class is a 250-300 word description that has some aspect of food...
I am thinking about the Restaurant that I grew up with in Pennsylvania named "Frank's Pizza."
I am thinking about the Restaurant that I grew up with in Pennsylvania named "Frank's Pizza."
In many ways it is just your typical Italian owned Mom and Pop Pizza joint, common in south eastern Pennsylvania. I have been going there since I was 9 yrs old and still make special efforts to stop there on my way to visit friends and relatives. I remember walking in there and not being able to see over the red brick counter but the smells are still the same. Garlic and tomato, basil and dough. The sounds of searing steak and the two brothers, John and Veto, going back and forth in Italian to what sounds like arguing. Unknown to me as I do not speak Italian it maybe just normal conversation.
Of course the big item would be the Cheese steak and as a Philly area staple it has a few different variations. The normal Cheese steak comes with Sauce and Onions. The sauce is a tomato based sauce and the onions are grilled and mixed within the steak. The pizza steak with its mozzarella cheese and pizza sauce. The cheese steak Weber, which is steak, raw onions, lettuce, tomato and mayonnaise, to the chicken cheese steak which is not really a cheese steak at all.
The menu has expanded over the years but the food tastes the same. I remember being in the Marines and craving those cheese steaks... The atmosphere has changed somewhat too, Veto has retired and now John has some younger workers helping him. Not Italian though, they are Guatemalan but they understand each other with the similarities between the Spanish and Italian languages makes me jealous that I never learned either.
Now I can see over the counter top and watch the delicious food and see the faces I once only knew if they came from behind the counter to bring me my food. It is however, the taste of the food that keeps everyone coming back for more.
That's a great article Brian. Makes me want to go get a cheesesteak!
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Brian, this article is starting off great. While I like your description of the pizza joint at the middle to end of the first paragraph, I would put that as your first few sentences. It is good to appeal to a reader's senses and that description does that very well...but it gets lost if you put towards the end of the paragraph. It's a much better introduction to your article than what you have now. Also, you never mention the actual restaurant name in your article, which you may want to do so your viewers can remember it. But I really like the references about seeing over the counter, the tastes and smells, etc. That will appeal to everyone reading your article.
ReplyDeleteAlso, check your spelling and punctuation, i.e. cheesesteak is one word and words like onions and sauce are not capitalized unless they are the start of a sentence or are specialized, like Frank's Hot Sauce.
Good luck! This article is already sounding delicious :)