are so easy and just as thoughtful and welcome. Little consumables such as nice quality candles (good beeswax white tapers), hostess soaps, jordan almonds, after dinner mints, tails napkins, wine glass charms, a book of tail...

a variation of the chicken cutlet recipe in Joy of Cooking, Pounding out the chicken breasts, I also use Reggiano parmesan in the bread crumb mixture, and use a deep fryer with peanut oil. I use the traditional flour, egg,...

like Ho Chi Minh and cracks jokes? where else can one get fresh garbanzo beans, Buddha’s hand, prickly pear, 6 kinds of almonds, 10 kinds of squash and 10 kinds of yams???

world too! Some times the pay-off for not having the called for equipment is a great sense of joy and triumph when you improvise something that works just as well. Don’t have a couscousiere? Well, let’s see...a metal...

the rest of our time creating, asking, learning. We find joy, creativity, release in our art. Is that less adventurous? I visit my museums (resaurants) often to get inspiration. Then I cloister myself and create. I only look up a...

, and furthermore, I liked to cook! Many years of reading and experimentation followed, augmented by several trips to France. I still love to eat and cook. And I still cook with my mom (age of 91). I have a huge cookbook...

with dining with the Chowhounds was probably the warm memory of the lunch that I will keep with me. It was a joy to dine with people who noticed so much about the food details that I would have missed and not appreciated. Just...

in anything else, comes from hand labor and glory in the joy of one’s work. Today’s “family farmer” hasn’t a clue. He’s merely a factory farmer.

(and Cambodia, Laos, and elsewhere) as people were slowly able to again become Asians in the sense of jubulant street foods and markets. Have you been back? One of the joys is that the Vietnamese, having won the war, almost never...

that were still in their little hulls/shells. I have only seen them this way one time since. It was similar to almond skin, but a little thicker. Now that I have made pesto about a billion times since, it makes me smile to think...

we go there we have some good eats: sauerbraten & spaetzle, wild boar ragout, fried camembert with lingonberries, trout with slivered almonds, red currant tart. All very typical. In southern Germany you also find...

seed!" cried my wife when I substituted a store brand for her beloved Post Honey flakes and almonds. “SALTY!” cried I when I tried a Wheaties substitute. However, after seeing some responses on Chowhound, we might try...