brands to try, from artisanal style to supermarket crap, but they’re all good. Never met a bacon I didn’t like!! I’m partial to the thinner and leaner variety, but it’s all a matter of taste. Enjoy your...

predelictions)? ps, nacho cheese doritos..... what puts you in “hog heaven”? (that shrimp did it for me!)

Caseus and Union League both use local produce and Caseus has several local farmers growing for them. We’re not in the most rural part of the state, however, so to get stuff like cheese you need to expand your definition of...

of specialty shops in Manhattan. Cider was pricey, 3.95 a half gallon. I didn’t price out the organic turkey sausage. I did buy $20 per pound cheese from Bobolink, where the cows are grass fed and the cheese production is...

for the region they are grown in (i.e., Brie cheese from Brie.) I’m not a locavore, but I am thinking about it. I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about sustainable living and my impact on the planet. As always, thank...

, then having them say: 'hell, if I got to eat the way you do on camping trips, I would probably like it..." So, because of popular demand, I started doing trips with friends, then for paying groups, then guided kayak tours...

other "premium import" brands the local A-B distributor already carries. F’r’instance, in my area the local A-B distributor has long been the supplier for Heineken (a direct competitor for Stella) and I doubt that they...

I wish I had kept track but the best I can do is to say that they’ve all been in fairly nice restaurants in LA and one in SF. The first half dozen or so were oddities on the wine list, i.e. not at restaurants that were...

2005 William Fèvre Chablis Champs Royaux. Lots of green apples, then more green apples, with a faint hint of grapefruit peel. Nice minerals, great acidity, though a bit more chalky than I’d preferred. Should go well with a...

Tommy’s dogs. IMHO the real reason to go to Tommy’s is the chili cheese fries. Having lived in Berkeley for 7 years or so, I never understood the hype surrounding Top Dog. You can find those kinds of artisan sausages...

'm leaving the store. (or molding in the advance of the sell-by date in the case of cheese) And you pay a significant premium for pretty and tasteless. The only produce I consider buying there is the organic bananas. I have far...

of thai growing up. We are both suckers for artisanal cheese, all forms of charcuterie and secondary cuts being transformed into delicious treats! We will be staying downtown in order to be close to the different museums and...

, and less waste for our planet. I agree with your experience on generics. I buy generic milk and cream which tastes the same. I’ve also tried S&S canned/frozen veggies for certain recipes. I used to love Shaw’s brand...

of those bus tours around the city...and who knows what else! And yes, you’re right. Our goal is to avoid things that we could easily find here, but for me that does not exclude Mexican, Chinese and sushi. In Northern...

dumplings and an artisan cheese plate. The dough of the dumplings was too dough-y, and the artisan cheese plate was very....minimal to say the least. I got a French Sidecar martini, which was Hennessy VSOP with Cointreau and...