the food he’s preparing. “my life is food,” he told us. He is contantly reading food and restaurant magazines from Japan for ideas. He travels back home 3-4 times a year to see what’s happening at...

tasted them she looked at me and said “these taste tinny. Anything different on how you made them?” So back to the white enameled pot went the Jfood method and the smile returned to Mrs Jfood’s lovely face. -...

I feel the same way Cookinggirl does whenever I see one of the “I can't cook. Pleas help” posts. Your sister knows how to cook, if she were left alone in the house full of raw ingredients in the snowstorm, she’d...

. He’s watched birds feed when they migrate, they do gorge themselves. We have a farm behind our house...you should see this 8 lb birds pack away twice their weight in corn and soybeans in one day. They are so intent on...

source of decent, inexpensive impromptu meals (eg on the way back from the airport at 8:30pm)... and I continue to be appalled at how parents let their kids run around, splash other people with fountain water, and get in the way of...

looked at the almost 20-year-old KitchenAid dishwasher he was impressed by all the metal and “real” parts; I know I will not find that today. Not fun...my next house I am turning my kitchen into a huge, walk-in...

of a grump but if you like spicy korean food its a good place to try. Its not the typical korean bbq restaurant but more like going to someones house. They have homemade dumplings and specials all over the wall. I have liked what...

. Again, true sushi afficianados please visit Sushi Yasuda in NYC and order Omakase with Mr. Yasuda. Then try going back to Nozawa. It can’t be done. Porthos

our trip then the $18.80 3-course lunch at Commander’s Palace? http://www.commanderspalace.com/las_vegas/menu_detail.php?menu=13. We tried both starters: cream of wild mushroom soup topped with truffled chive Chantilly (Ms....

Canned wild Alaskan salmon for me and one of the best deals in the supermarket. Farm raised is never cooked in this house though we may eat it in restaurants

pony for me. For example, I had the chopped liver/egg salad combo and some soup a few weeks back while waiting for my takeout pastramis. As with most of the not-pastrami offerings, nothing to write home about, not by a long shot....

, but there are all sorts of other milky, cowy, creamy flavors there. My eyes practically rolled back in my head when I had a pizza with artichoke and fresh ricotta – what was this stuff? Not the grainy ricotta I grew up...

I grew up with my mother making round grilled cheese sandwiches in just the contraption you describe! They were the best. Unfortunately, it really only works over a gas flame. We had to give them up when we moved to a house with...

house ( the whole menu here is dirt cheap) channa batura at sukhadia sweet shop on devon (do not order pani puri here – there puri are stale) I like the falafel at pita inn in skokie – Rob/VI if you go during the dinner...

an insult, so he fell back on “yeah, well, at least I'm not a virgin.” Hasn’t he seen the billboard?!? It’s not a dirty word, Ilan. And besides that, didn’t it seem completely out of left field?? I...