- Thai: Green Basil R*O*C*K*S* - Seasonal Haute Cuisine: Amuse @ Waverley (not to be confused with ‘Amuse Bouche’, downtown). Wonderful food, lovely atmosphere & meticulous ingredient selection, right down to the...

Thanks for the link. I was able to locate a local wine & cheese store that sells the chocolate right around the corner. I bought a tin of cocoa and two of the small bars, one with crunchy nibs and the other with Peet’s...

Made Marcella Hazan’s recipe from “Marcella's Italian Kitchen” for cabbage rolls with beef, prosciutto, and Parmesan cheese filling last night (I know, not very summery, but...)and was musing on the fact that...

on Saturday’s starting around 9:00. It’s of the best around . . .very mulit-cultural. You can purchase a whole fresh salmon at $5 a pound,and the Phillopino influence is awesome in small vendor foods. Artisan breads,...

that came with the cheese plate. Thanks goodness it is not expensive.

not tried yet. Echigo was also offered. Menu was extensive, we didn’t even get to the third page of offerings or even the noodle page. I will report back on those next time with pics. We ordered a bottle of one of the...

. Or the bar at Artisanal and have some awesome cheese (did this last week too). In LA, I think I would feel strange eating dinner alone at the bar at a topnotch restaurant such as Gramercy. Or even at a lowbrow place like New...

at farmer’s markets. Make friends with other people who love food and love to cook – the barter economy works out well when you’ve got friends who hunt, fish, and make their own jams, wines, olives, pickles and...

Yeah castles can be good. Doubles with cheese and extra pickle for me. I hate the neighborhoods they run most of them in though. For belly bombers my local choice is White Manna in Hackensack. Hardly fast food because you have to...

. The potato gratin featured a bubbly ricotta-like cheese and was too sweet. The mushroom timbale (in exactly the same size and shape as the earlier lobster timbale) had an odd taste, and no one could finish their modest serving....

region, these are the creation of roughly 2,000 vintners who grow, produce and bottle bubbly themselves from their own tiny patches of hallowed Champagne dirt. Grower Champagnes are artisanal products, hand-crafted in small...

If the Bob Armstrong dip is “authentic Mexican”, it certainly isn’t like any authentic Mexican food I’ve had. I would say it is authentic Tex-Mex — a creamy, soupy, melted yellow-orange cheese with a...

We are also freezing and canning what we can nliedel. We get a huge bag each week in the summer from our CSA and also have a small garden. We freeze everything we don’t eat fresh and are so glad not to have to pay a premium...

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...

'd rather pay the extra two or three bucks the premium gin can cost in a bar (or even more), even though she is not among those who can taste the difference! Strange, but true. Another reason, which in my opinion is the most...