For those who participated in last year’s 24 hours of chow, they know it took much advance planning, logistics, and bargaining. Thus, it is not too early to start thinking about the plans for 2003. We have a few things in...

by proclaiming a little restaurant called Lotus of Siam the best Thai restaurant in the US. This brought the entire food world (inclg me: in Oct 99) to its doorstep, which is set next to the most anonymous food stores and a gay...

courses of beef), according to JS. The first course of rare beef salad is melt-in-your-mouth tender and ungamey. Second and third courses are cooked yourself (in a vinegary fondue pot and then a barbecue set-up coated with oil...

Agree with you about the boiled peanuts. Agree with your wife about tossing you in front of the car if you yell while she’s driving. Unless you smell REALLY good barbecue that is.

I think it’s okay to give out your opinion. It’s not like you’re physically keeping people from trying out the store you don’t like. That’s why, when I don’t like a restaurant for whatever...

And by the way, even tho I don’t eat them, I know where to get the best Peking Duck in Boston, the best barbecue in Kansas City, and where the tripe man sets up in Florence!!!!!!!!

-at-best chinese place. Whether you really need to weightily pronounce on the origins of the word “baklava” when you actually have no idea. Whether you have sufficient experience to confidently declare that gas-fired...

barbecue (if you venture out to Charles County, about 30 miles to the south and east), a concentration of Vietnamese (and other Asian cuisines) in the Virginia suburbs, great bread from Marvelous Market (and its successors), some...

ice creams and whipped cream Artisanal rolls/bread There will also be a trip to a dollar store or two to pick up cheap containers to send leftovers home with people, which is why I make so much in the first place – leftovers!...

, what they got was the contents of a can of La Choy Chop Suey heated up with white rice. A woman who worked in my grandfather’s store had occasion to go to Chicago and had dinner at a Chinese restaurant. She was bitterly...

's anyway. However, when a store front puts up a sign in Phoenix that says “Serving Mexican food” I don’t think it is out of line to think that you are going to get something more akin to Pepe’s than...

to worry about one course or dish. On 4th of July, one guest offered to bring his barbecued ribs. I happily agreed, and then decided since he was bringing ribs, I could buy less steak and also get shrimp, which I did. He...

And about what you say about barbecue... here are neat little stories about twenty other dishes Americans should be proud of... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8392312/ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13563400/

best thing you can do is find a decent store - one that doesn’t try to sell you wines by the points robert parker gives them. if you live in the tri-state area, i’ll e-mail you some that i think you’ll be happy...

was returning it for a full refund because she read the whole book and hated it! Of course the bookstore did not give her a refund or a store credit. Instead, they politely explained why she could not return the book. It should...