as justify — after all, it’s sorta like throwing money in the toilet. sigh However, if I were happy living on cardboard bread, generic gouda/American cheese “product”, or Hamburger helper, I might be able...

to contestant A. Contestant A scowls. Judge then says something neutral to contestant A. Contestant A gushes with pride and says thank you repeatedly. Judges say you can return to your room while we talk. Shot of contestants standing...

of supposed snotty restaurants who take advantage of tourists? I’ll be spending a week in Barcelona soon and I’m sure the locals there will be able to spot me a mile away(e.g. travel guide in hand, wearing American...

everything on wood cutting boards. I have a special one for garlic & onions, little round ones for bread and cheese. My pride and joy is an old mellowed 1"X14"X36" slab of maple I found at a farm sale years ago. I keep it at the...

Lately tiny gherkin pickles, and american cheese! I’m a cheesehead and very rarely eat american cheese... but lately have been remembering when my grandma would buy it from the deli and get it sliced so thin you could see...

Wal-Mart (American Canyon) – Boulangerie, fishmonger, greengrocer, pico de gallo rotisserie chicken, deli, Sterling Vintners Collection wines and the sushi chef http://www.chowhound.com/topics/481441 ... and you can even buy a...

Thanks all for the recs! This has given me an awesome list of new places to try. To the few who were oh-so-cleverly sarcastic...sorry if I hit a nerve, didn’t mean to get anyone all defensive about their pride and joy...

servers make a base wage. But a tip is earned, not given beause the server did the bare minimum and therefore is entitled. And while foreigners (Asians, Europeans) are known for being sub-par tippers here, Americans are known for...

on at Chez Panisse,' Waters said. 'And they would say “Oh, that's not cooking, that's shopping.” I was so intimidated by that. I just felt like maybe we weren’t doing enough. Now I’m very prideful. It is...

, breads, and Mexican pastries. Regulars on the Bay Area board, where I have chronicled my search for a good Mexican bakery in San Francisco, would not be surprised to hear that we sampled an empanada de calabaza (pumpkin...

stooped to the depths of immaturity that we saw last season. Besides, I am not as horrified by rare chicken as Americans have been trained to be. Assuming that they were using some good chicken there, not factory-farmed Purdue...

My parents were first-generation Americans, both children of Russian Jewish immigrants. Food seemed to be the center of the universe to the whole family – perhaps because my grandparents were all poor and hungry most of the...

(same as her pride dish), Sam’s dish in the elimination challenge looked very similar to the dish he made with Cliff earlier in the season. I was very surprised that the judges did not comment on any of this.

- bake duck at a high temperature as many recipes would have you do. Way too much smoke and the smell stays in the kitchen for a long time. - make Mexican and American Chinese food. Too much chopping and the need for exotic...

things on his own. He now prides himself when his friends ask him where to go for dinner, and he never wants to waste a meal at some mediocre place. He has become quite the chowhound!