Off The Menu: French fries the stuff of fast-food legend
Updated Jan 23, 2021;
They’re the stuff of fast-food legend.
The “they” is McDonald’s original-formulation French fries. Made from fresh Russet potatoes and fried in beef tallow, the French fries served at McDonald’s restaurants in the 1960s and ’70s supposedly earned the praise of late 20th century food luminaries like James Beard and Julia Child.
Certainly today’s restaurant French fries aren’t often memorable. Industrially processed, flash frozen, and sometimes “coated” to give the product better “plate life,” the modern French fry is nothing like the “pommes frites” from which they are originally descended.
Minimum wage hike, Family and Medical Leave Act take effect Jan. 1; here’s what businesses and workers say it means to them
Updated Dec 28, 2020;
Posted Dec 28, 2020
Jeremiah Micka holds a remote ordering machine at Union Station in Northampton, Dec. 8, 2020. (Hoang ‘Leon’ Nguyen / The Republican)
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NORTHAMPTON Jeremiah Micka has been dealing with a lot lately.
Like many, the owner of the Union Station complex in Northampton which includes the Tunnel Bar, the Roosevelt Room banquet facility, the Platform Sports Bar and a patio bar called The Deck has struggled to keep his business afloat during the coronavirus pandemic.
In the new year, he and his fellow business owners will get even more on their plates.