I never appreciated a good beer until I was in my mid-twenties. I remember watching The Shawshank Redemption when Andy Dufresne trades tax advice for a few "bottles of suds" and thinking, what a waste of a cold drink. My first true revelation came with the pairing of fried chicken to ...
Ross Geller’s Moist Maker Sandwich from Friends
Sometimes I feel limited, keeping my fictional creations strictly literary. Then I remembered that I can do whatever I want, so behold! Film & television inspiration is now admissible on Eating Books. With all of these Thanksgiving leftovers, I couldn't pass up the opportunity to craft the ...
Hocking Hills Comfort Food Cruise (Ohio’s Scenic Food Tour Guide)
For someone who's lived in Ohio for most of her life and didn't go to Hocking Hills until this year, I sure do like going to Hocking Hills. I ventured back again for a bloggers' retreat to experience Hocking Hills Comfort Food Cruise, a weekend excursion where an $18 ticket—$5 of which ...
The Ohio State Reformatory (The Shawshank Redemption Filming Locations in Mansfield, Ohio)
"I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice. But still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone." —Stephen ...
Checking In: Cabins by the Caves in Hocking HIlls, Ohio
After hiking in Hocking Hills State Park, my boyfriend and I planned to spend Halloween in a secluded cabin in the woods watching scary movies (but not Evil Dead or Blair Witch or Friday the 13th or Cabin in the Woods or...you get it.) Cabins by the Caves were ...
Hiking in Hocking Hills
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." —Henry David Thoreau I've lived in Ohio most of my life. My family is ...
Eating On The Road: Jack Kerouac’s Apple Pie
"I ate apple pie and ice cream—it was getting better as I got deeper into Iowa, the pie bigger, the ice cream richer...that's practically all I ate all the way across the country, I knew it was nutritious and it was delicious, of course." —Jack Kerouac I set aside years of well-cultivated ...