Cornershot
1. 41-vehicle wreck ties up traffic Sunday on I-81 in Rockbridge County
2. Virginia Tech football roster has holes on picture day
3. Medicare penalties hit hospitals in Roanoke, New River Valleys
4. Microfestivus beer event gets downtown Roanoke hopping
5. McFarling: 2 little numbers are a big hurdle for Virginia Tech football
6. DAN CASEY: Copter cost still stirring up dust
7. Arrest made in case of missing Nelson County teen
8. Roanoke farmers markets making local foods more accessible
9. Virginia attorney general's office grows under Ken Cuccinelli
10. Man's drowning is 5th in Lynchburg area
Sunday, May 12, 2013
Esquire magazine honored National Grilled Cheese Month in April by blogging about grilled cheeses from across the map on its Eat Like a Man blog.
A former Roanoke Times online intern, Katrina Tulloch (who now works at The Post-Standard in Syracuse, N.Y.), freelanced one blog entry for Esquire about Roanoke’s finest location for grilled cheese sandwiches: Pop’s Ice Cream & Soda Bar in Grandin Village.
Specifically, Katrina wrote about the $6.50 Swiss Melt at Pop’s: “Pop’s Swiss Melt — a fusion of artichoke hearts, Swiss cheese, Dijon mustard, and horseradish — is a zesty antonym to Ma’s standard cheddar. Powerful horseradish delivers a swift kick to the sinuses before surrendering to buttery avocado.”
It is one of about a dozen kinds of grilled cheese made at Pop’s.
Other grilled cheeses featured on the blog during the month were the pecorino and almond pressed sandwich from Tartine Bakery in San Francisco, the ropa vieja from Sugarcane Raw Bar & Grill in Miami, the Caprese at Cheesie’s Pub & Grub in Chicago, and the grilled cheese at Bouchon Bakery in New York City.
To round out the month, Esquire put all of the sandwiches featured for the month up to a vote by Esquire.com readers.
The winner was recently announced, and Pop’s came in third place behind only Cheesie’s of Chicago and Roxy’s Grilled Cheese Truck in Boston. According to the bar graph on Eat Like a Man, Pop’s pulled in about 17 percent of the vote.
I know part of that is because Katrina promoted the heck out of the contest on her social media channels. Thanks for all the love for the Roanoke food scene, Katrina. And congratulations to Pop’s!
Maybe this is the place for “Diners, Drive-ins and Dives”?
1. 41-vehicle wreck ties up traffic Sunday on I-81 in Rockbridge County
2. Virginia Tech football roster has holes on picture day
3. Medicare penalties hit hospitals in Roanoke, New River Valleys
4. Microfestivus beer event gets downtown Roanoke hopping
5. McFarling: 2 little numbers are a big hurdle for Virginia Tech football
6. DAN CASEY: Copter cost still stirring up dust
7. Arrest made in case of missing Nelson County teen
8. Roanoke farmers markets making local foods more accessible
9. Virginia attorney general's office grows under Ken Cuccinelli
10. Man's drowning is 5th in Lynchburg area
THE ROANOKE TIMES
