
By AMANDA HESSER
Published: February 23, 2011
I began writing this column back in 2006. Remember way back then, five years ago? It was around the time of the debut of No-Knead Bread but before the dubious Bacon Explosion. The economy hadn’t yet tanked, so restaurants with stars still mattered to people without expense accounts. And we hadn’t begun to eat serious food from a truck, let alone to obsessively track a favorite vehicle or two on Twitter. More