Syracuse, N.Y. — Give a reporter a notepad and a pen, and they’ll chase a story. Give a journalist $20 and a city full of street food, and you’ve got something much tastier.
That was the challenge I handed to myself and three fellow reporters at this year’s Taste of Syracuse: Build our dream meal with just $20. No limits on what we could get; just a budget and an appetite. We could feast on anything from the 100-plus local restaurants, food trucks and festival favorites dishing out $2 samples and full-size plates. (By the way, our $2 ponchos did not count toward our food budget.)
We’re talking birria tacos, jerk wings, banana pudding, kimbap, street corn and donuts. So we grabbed our highlighters, sketched out our routes and hit the streets in the pouring rain with empty stomachs and high hopes…