" department of the student activity council. We had to manage the food and beverages for all organized campus parties as well as handle all the bands that played the school. Not only shop, cook, feed and clean up after but hang...

buy from Acker, Merrall, & Condit. Nightlife/ activities: you will find a few treasured places that don’t have TVs. Notably Dish, on the South Side. This is a college town. But that also means that cultural things get...

if somebody else is paying or cooking. I cancelled my cable TV service when the monthly price rose to over $25. It was my philosophical breaking point on such a passive activity [and my schoolteacher grandparents beckoning me to...

09/27/08 Brunch at Bouchon: http://uhockey.blogspot.com/2008/09/bouchon-las-vegas-nevada.html As I am a very healthy eater approximately 29/30 days each month as part of my lifestyle, I haven’t even experienced the 20 best...

direction from the host about how he or she preferred the courses to be served. It’s easy to dismiss this all as rather irrational. I would rather say it’s pre-rational. Dining is a highly ritualized human social...

Well, I have been cooking for almost 40 years, so when I look at a “new” recipe I am looking for something that won’t require a lot of modifications to fit into my diet and lifestyle. I have lots of tried and...

." It’s the First Ammendment to Murphy’s Law. After that, the most important thing you can do before you start any actual planning is to give a lot of thought to your "lifestyle," how you like to entertain, and whether...

a normal, hectic lifestyle and there is nothing wrong with pizza as a meal in those circumstances. My comment had to do with the fact that it seems really strange to me to assume that you should serve pizza EVERY SINGLE TIME just...

of different dishes. Using up leftovers is just part of the lifestyle of a thrifty home cook. Leftover taco filling might end up in a soup or as part of a pasta sauce.

I agree that balance is vital. And the only way I can balance the REST of my week is if I have a meal or two per week that’s superduper austere. I get more than enough protein, meat, fat, sodium as part of my career and...

plenty of time to contemplate these and other lifestyle issues as I sit idle in traffic on 495 at 11:30 a.m. on a Saturday morning, and...ya know, sometimes I begin to wonder who’s the moron. ;-)

the prestige-and-lifestyle-oriented luxury products that we see in the States etc. Will be in Chilapa, Guerrero for the celebrated Sunday market. On Chilapa, see the pozole verde thread. This is one of the great gastronomic...