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MOVRW 2019: River Town Grill

A couple of years ago, my husband, Nick, and I had our first meal at the River Town Grill during MOV Restaurant Week, which remains one of his all-time favorit...

MOVRW 2019: Townhouse

Nestled in the middle of the busy and varied Front Street shops and eateries, Marietta’s Town House Sports Bar is a popular stop for locals. If you blink, espe...

MOV Restaurant Week Expands in 2019

Do you have a difficult time choosing what to eat for dinner? Do you have a list of local restaurants you’ve been meaning to try, but instead end up falling back to “the usual” spot, time and time again? Or have you exhausted the local food scene an...

Parkersburg’s Downtown Throwdown

It’s hard to go wrong with good food, great beer, and live music. The folks at Downtown PKB have perfected this recipe over the past few years with their signat...
Flying Dogs Hot Dogs

Flying Dogs

Lots of folks claim not to like hot dogs, but that seems a little hard to swallow, pardon the pun, considering how many of these definitive American sausages ar...

The Scoop on Scoops

Food trucks have been popping up in the MOV these past few years and I’m happy to report the newest addition can be found in St. Marys, W.Va. Scoops opened its doors this past June and has been churning out sweet confections including cookies, ice cr...
The Hideout in Parkersburg, WV

The Hideout

Sometimes it takes being away from home to bring a person back home. Cue a chance meeting last May between the previous owners of the old Pub 47 building and n...
The Original Pizza Place in Marietta Ohio

The Original Pizza Place

There are a multitude of really cool things about The Original Pizza Place - its history, its family ties and its delicious food. However, the coolest aspect might just be the owner, Mike Ruscitto and his daughter, Kasandra Pritchett who serves as th...

Who do Pepperoni Rolls belong to?

One of my clients, a large retail corporation, occasionally gives me assignments to develop recipes for a mainstream American audience. I love working with the ...
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