When I am experiencing a new place what I eat is just as important as what I do.   Every meal or snack might not be destination oriented but there are always a handful of spots I have in mind. I want to eat like a local and sample the best that area has to offer. The farther away I am and the shorter the length of my trip puts pressure on making sure my list is full of the essentials any foodie would be proud of. As for Pittsburgh there was only one must have food adventure I knew I would get to no matter what. I had seen it on the Food Network when Adam Richman visited. I am of course talking about the legendary institution, Primanti Brothers. Primanti Brothers has been a Pittsburgh landmark since 1933 in its original eighteenth street location- of course the location I was determined to see. There were several others in the area most notably in the Southside district and Market Square. But I wanted to experience the real deal. After arriving at my hotel on my f...

On the first morning I awoke in Pittsburgh I felt well rested and eager to get out and see the city. The weather was even better than the previous day and we were looking forward to spending the day out in the fifty-degree sunshine. I put on a velour sweat suit and I was rearing to go.  I had a few things I knew we were going to do this day but the order kept changing. I sort of wanted to wing it as best we could. So I decided to start with the activity that I knew would take the longest, a riverboat cruise. When I visit a major city I like to always make sure I get the lay of the land no matter how long I am in town for. Sometimes that’s on a bus, just walking, but more often than not it is on a boat. You get to see a city in a whole new light that you don’t get on land. You get to see all of the buildings that make up the skyline and parts of the city you may not get to. On a nice...