and a half inch thick pork chops brined and marinated, huge chickens brushed with a garlic and rosemary paste, and prime-quality steaks, all from small farms and ranches in Colorado or Okla., and all excellent Wild Fork Hearty...

if we’re 25 or 65, fat or thin, friendly or rude, he touches us. I don’t think I’ve ever been touched by a server before. All of my colleagues think it’s really weird, but we don’t know what to say....

Restaurant alma would be my first pick for showing an out of towner what nicer twin cities dining is all about, and in fact i brought my tie-dye and cargo shorts clad father there about a month ago with no problems. except...

to chat us up towards the end, and when my wife told him she was from Baltimore he comped us the crab cake app. Two smallish crab cakes, but under $9 on the menu. There were outstanding as well. I mentioned all of the competition...

sometimes something little will happen that totally puts a wrench in my cooking enjoyment. In the grand scheme of things, it’s totally not a big deal at all, but it can wreck a good time in the kitchen AND it seems to...

When someone asks me what the quintessential restaurant in Phoenix would be, I steer them towards Durant’s. Durant’s opened in 1950 and has been a rock solid choice for an old school steakhouse complete with red...

Yes. It’s an absolutely magical experience. It’s great on a simple food/restaurant service level but goes way beyond that. If you’ve never been to a starred restaurant before, don’t walk away thinking...

I was an unwashed anti-rice maker lout prior to being given one by one of my Japanese friends, preferring to microwave all my rice. Since that initial baptism, I’ve seen the light and use it so regularly I’ve gone...

a friend vsiitng from NYC has requested Mexican food on Tuesday for dinner in Pasadena. Any and and all recommendations gleefully accepted. Theo

your favorite singular things, regional things, and you home chow them well enough where you are. But my bet is that in the United States, across the board, the best home chow is in CALIFORNIA. Maybe I shouldn’t say this,...

I grill all the time, so much so that I often forget other good options, like pan-searing. Both are great. One benefit of searing in a pan is the great sauce you can get afterwards by deglazing! I must remember to mix things up a...

Heh. My fav Simpsons food moment was when Homer was trying to gain weight so he could go on disability, and he had a little daydream about being led up weight gain stairs by a dauntily-clad talking pig. Then he stopped and took a...

Tysons Corner mall upstairs which has hand tossed pizza to Greenbelt to Centreville and so forth. The BEST of all of these and to the best of my knowledge the best New York style pizza in the entire Washington metropolitan area...

I’ve been baking for years, and I have to agree that the loaf this method produces is simply great. There is no laziness factor at all, since a KitchenAid mixer takes the grunt out of traditionally kneaded bread anyway....

Not everything all at once, of course! I was just listing examples. Theoretically, however much a chef can handle at dinner, he should be able to do the same for breakfast. I don’t see why not. It would be an entirely...