Food blogger Meg Hourihan attended our May event with Gourmet EIC Ruth Reichl and author Michael Pollan, but she couldn’t make Ruth’s foodie roundtable here last month. So she gave her tickets away to a fellow food writer on the condition that they then write a review for her site. Cristina Mueller was the winning writer, and her in-depth review of the evening was just posted. Well worth a read:

Jane and Michael Stern were breezy, delightful fonts of obscure food information, spouting exactly the stuff you want from a couple who’s spent the past twenty years trolling the country for good meals. They talked about the hand-ground paprika they’d found in a Hungarian butcher shop in Akron, Ohio, the fried chicken from Bon Ton Minimart in Henderson, Kentucky, the chili rellenos from the carwash-meets-taco-joint in El Paso, TX, the excellent ribs from Curtis’ Barbecue in Putney, Vermont. The only problem at Curtis’, Jane said, is that you have to eat the ribs while avoiding eye contact with Mr. Curtis’ massive pet pig, Isabel. “The meat really is great, though,” Michael said. (Patchett looked ill.)