!, Zuka and Ateliê Culinário. Go to a Botequim (a bar) after the beach, as the cariocas do: Bracarense and Manuel e Joaquim are 2 good options. You can have salgadinhos (Brazilian savory snacks) and beer. Manuel e Joaquim has...

, and I’d like to provide some sample menus, so that she can quote them out for me. As we’ll be hosting a lot of friends and families from Boston and Los Angeles, who will be coming a plane ride or two away, plus...

Cases of beer & wine.

is likely to still be good... and he gives me a very authoritative response (usually, “I'd eat it”) that either makes me feel safer or leads to my taking it to their house the next time I go. Good thing they live...

of the burgers – all pretty danged good – best within a 10 minute drive for sure. We avoid the chicken & fish. Salads are OK, but nothing special. It’s all about the meat. I’ve also been to the Outback by...

sniff test and still cook and eat the food, I practically obsess over if I’m going to get sick or not. I’m more than neurotic about it..and it drives my husband crazy. Funny thing about it is, I’ve never gotten...

Cheetos! I could eat the whole bag in one sitting. And I like the baked Cheetos too, though not as much, and they’re safer. I also love those Snyders pretzels in the cheese flavor, but I don’t buy them. And I LOVE...

I’ll bring the beers, this sounds like a great drinking game.

to their headquarters across the street. They also dine inside El Taco Zamorano on a regular basis. (i once saw a whole table of them order "diet coke"s,while I was drinking a beer....yes!) Paradoxically,I believe they keep the...

Yes, precisely! When I was a child I asked Dad, “How far away is the end of the universe?” Dad advised me, "Don’t let it bother you. If you keep thinking about things like that it will drive you crazy." Same...

jfood is a baster but is very concerned about the temperature drops. Watching his mom open the door, pull out the rack and then baste it with the door open for 1-2 minutes used to drive him crazy, even as a kid. so the...

xio long bao and a cemitas poblana. The latter, I think I will finally try on Friday, the former requires an hour drive. Maybe after the holidays.

HA HA HA! My mom (age 73) is a foil reuser and it drives me batty! She sometimes starts to fold it back up for me when she’s at my house...I throw it away after she leaves. What can I say? I guess we all draw the line at...

the States, but he couldn’t prove it, so they were confiscated. Another friend of mine once lost his lemons driving to Detroit. That being said, I’ve taken all manner of food and drink back and forth, always declare...

ground meat. I buy my milk at TJ’s — about 50 cents per half-gallon less expensive than the super — and eggs and cheese. Wine, water, occasionally beer. Then the frozen foods aisle (which also has cookies) on my...