The Glazed Donut Sandwich.

"Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess."

 So said Oscar Wilde and Dunkin' Donuts is hoping he's right.

On June 7, DD is taking their new donut sandwich nationwide. A glazed-donut-egg sandwich. What could be better for breakfast? Forget the IRS scandal and Benghazi. This is important stuff.

I love Dunkin Donuts. I like their coffee, donuts, breakfast sandwiches and overall vibe. I miss their diner-style stores with bar counters and stools and old guys drinking coffee, smoking cigarettes, reading the paper, and enjoying a donut. But that's the old Dunkin Donuts. The new Dunkin' Donuts has a healthier more hip kind of cuisine, like the glazed donut and egg sandwich.

Yes, I will be trying one as soon as I can.

The only Dunkin Donuts I know of in the Fort Worth area is here: Precinct Line Rd, Hurst, TX

La Colombe, Di Bruno's, Village Whiskey, Dogfish beer, and Rittenhouse Square

Sorry for a food post on Philadelphia but I have just returned from attending my son's graduation so you get what I get I guess.

Anyway, if you do find yourself in the City of Brotherly Love's Center City area let me make these suggestions.

Coffee: the best cup of coffee, espresso, or cappucchino in town, or on the eastern seaboard is La Colombe. I say this for many reasons, the first being, of course, an honest cup of hot coffee. But equally, it's a real place, real baristas, real wood chairs on a hardwood floor.

La Colombe keep things simple because they try to do one thing well: coffee, and they haven't turned the store into a retail gift shop that also sells coffee (Yes, that's you Starbucks), and they sell croissants from a local baker who cares about doing croissants well. As a friend of mine said, "at La Colombe, the coffee comes first, the customer second."

There's no menu, no chalkboard, just get in line and order your standard coffee drink of choice and all God's chillen' are happy. Cash only.

http://www.lacolombe.com/

La Colombe

Di Bruno's
I love this place. They have some of the best sandwiches in town. And cheese, and fish, and desserts.
http://www.dibruno.com/

Di Bruno's

Reading Terminal Market
Want the best pulled pork sandwich in Philadelphia? DiNic's.
http://readingterminalmarket.org/

Village Whiskey
Maybe the best 8 oz. hamburger money can buy. Made from grass fed beef. The bun is perfect and the Duck fat french fries aren't bad either.
http://villagewhiskey.com/

And while I'm at it a little love for the Rittenhouse Plaza-Warwick hotel. Old-fashioned hotel service. Great newly-renovated rooms, friendly staff, and reasonable rates for the location. Rittenhouse Square is the only place to stay if you the love the hum of the city.
http://www.radisson.com/philadelphia-hotel-pa-19103-6179/paphily

The Wall Street Journal agrees, by the way: Rittenhouse

View of Curtis Institute of Music from my favorite bench in Rittenhouse Square

Last thing. If you get to the beach: Don't forget Dolle's Salt Water Taffy and and DogFish Beer from the original pub in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.

Late Spring at the Beach

Selling the sizzle...again.

One of the artforms of the times in which we live is advertising. Philosopher and social commentator Marshall McLuhan called advertising "the greatest art form of the twentieth century," and "the cave art of the twentieth century." These axioms reveal a subtle criticism and warning to our audio-video age even while recognizing advertising's influence.

But if you're going to do advertising and do it well one would be wise to learn from the masters, and one of them is Apple, or Apple's ad agency.

It's not easy to create a memorable ad but to create one that gets people to act, to actually go out and buy the product, as Apple does, again and again, is something to appreciate.

Here's their latest:
 


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