Things just got a whole lot more fun. We proceeded to spend the next 15 minutes poring over our options, colluding like '80s kids in a clubhouse trading Garbage Pail Kids, expanding my original list with Thomas' insider information.
You take a passionate Editor (Ed Levine), a willing, knowing audience (serious eats/a hamburger today readers) and a phenomenal foodie (Kenji) and you have food porn gold.