said products and what you’ve done to find a place that even has them) involved with the product, what foods s/he’d prepare with products; and STILL end up buying both for their different properties.

for the table when I didn’t intend to in the first place. I have said before, “thank you, but I prefer to fill my own glass.” No problems.

. The tradition is to wrap a small favor and place it into the pudding just before steaming. The person who finds the favor in their dish will have good luck for the coming year, or something....LOL. I have never done that, but I...

. After I became an adult and starting traveling to more places were avocados were freasher, I found I do like them, just not very many of the ones I can get in Indiana.

and slaughter myself, not pay someone else to do it and buy meat plastic wrapped and sterile looking. Enjoy the cuy. I used to enjoy it in Bolivia. Found a place on Roosevelt Ave. in Queens, NYC that serves it, but is quite...

've been milking animals. Of course, if you’re talking about commercial quality products with additives, that’s another issue, but that has more to do with the producer putting out a poor-quality product than it does...

As a vegetarian who PROUDLY cooks tofu for my boyfriend and ordered soup and salad on our first date, I’m upset with the Times' assumption that those of us who choose not to eat animal flesh are somehow less likely to wind...

to the soy/vinegar/pepper combo one might have in a Chinese place, a little lighter on soy & vinegar, a little more chiles overall a fresher sauce) a nice start. Not terribly spicy, though. We moved on through too many dishes for...

that ginger spread...has been showing up in different places on the regular aisle one in from express line on the endcap across from chicken and most recently, on the endcap across from tofu – next to bread the tangelos are peak

conscientious about your consuming habits everyting from depleting the fish supply in our world’s oceans to buying fairly- traded goods. Greenpeace, World Wildlife Fund, and the Sierra Club are some great places to start....

a lot of people don’t like this cookbook, but it’ll always hold a fond place in my heart.

Raisins! There is nothing worse than biting into a crispy cookie and finding a blob of soft raisin in it, sorry dkenworthy. I like raisins alone but not in other things. I got a bread pudding from a BBQ place last week and it had...

's not just that her recipes are extremely “rich”, but that she seems to go out of her way to make sure it is always way over the top – as if her mission in life is to make as many people as big as possible,...

I rented a place some years back that had a wooden countertop. It was a real mess when we moved in: stains, deep cuts, uneven wear, and just general grody-ness. A little (well, a lot actually) of sanding, bleaching, and oiling one...

it rejected by some stores), and closeouts. These salvage places can be a real bargain, but don’t wear your nice shoes. The floor is always sticky from some leaking can of something! Ditto for the day-old baked goods...