plus, Pat Morrison’s article altho highlighting the fringe of some very sad commentary about how hard it is to put reasonable priced food on any American table does poke a great deal of the time at the absurdness. I find it...

is pretty small). Great decorating—everything is packaged beautifully. I love the colors they used. The comforter is this gorgeous cobalt velvet. Even the soaps they give you are pretty (opaque blue and green, plus a silver...

folks from other cultures, I realize you might, but I’m talking mainstream American here).

foods (anything for which you have to read the label) 6. No sweet tooth 7. No desire for soft drinks 8. Shopping and cooking rather than eating out 9. Residence in a country in which the obese are few and the beautiful are many 10....

into the whites with a star tip, sprinkle a little paprika over. Also we would fill them and smooth over the top with a knife, and garnish with a piece of (American) ripe olive. Recently I made stuffed eggs by steaming the whites...

Beautiful. I used to know a guy who was a bartender and rather accomplished party-hound. He always called New Years Eve ‘amatuer night’, and stayed home and got to bed early on Dec 31. This sounds like the same...

me this fancy American has gone downhill a bit, with poorer service, to boot. A better bet would be Pangea for a World Beat meal. The restaurant is the pits, but the pizza from Napoli is aces. Bring it home or get it delivered....

I sigh a forlorn sigh of regret at my in-laws when I watch a beautiful pice of pork get seasoned nicely and popped into the oven, not to emerge until it’s cooked to an unappetizing gray color and is the consistency of shoe...

and top-notch service. There are two (I think) small rooms, beautifully decorated, just below street level. I cannot speak highly enough of this restaurant and the spectacular meal I had there (read my travelogue for details). If...

My husband just brought back La Cocina de Mama from the library! I looked through it and it looks really great. Especially taken by a chicken cutlet that is painted with aioli and then breaded. Perhaps tonight. Anyway, the book...

-powdered, spice-crusted, sodium-enhanced faux ethnic snack food most of the population swoons over. The sad little produce section (why all the plastic wrap?) and the even worse fresh meat section (a butcher is a beautiful and...

On the same page about prime at home. Steak is one of the few things I don’t like to eat out. The mark-up is absurd, and while I’m not convinced it takes much skill to cook good steak beautifully, I have a hard time...

(Croatia), a famous winemaking region and apparently also an area of great natural beauty. The grape is the celebrated Plavac Mali (pla-vats mali) which for many years was thought to be identical to Zinfandel. Professor Carole...

spots like Molly’s for a terrific burger and a Guinness, Le Tableau and Lavagna, Miracle Grill for the outdoor garden and tasty porkchops, Bouchon for terrific bistro dishes, Le Zie when I’m craving pasta, Gotham for...

other than Becky Wasserman-Hone, an American-born courtier en vin whose palate and portfolio of growers (which includes the likes of Denis Bachelet, Alain Burguet, Daniel Rion, Philippe Engel, et al) are legendary. The rooms are...