— dis not spell’n bee.com Da focus is da chow. Dat reminds me, why I talk’n bout me, huh? monkuboy, you go down Monterey Park, have a quesadilla Napoletana and report back. tell us wot you tink.

God bless him... :-D Sooo, can you bring a Stella’s pizza into the Mt. Auburn? Watertown used to have so many dives, but some have disappeared. The ones that come to mind are Mark’s Spring Street Pub (closed),...

Be it an ingredient or a cooking technique, are there things that you NEVER comprise on? For me, it’s dumpling skins. They have to hand-rolled. Never will I “settle” for those pre-manufactured, pre-packaged,...

This weekend, I’ll be moving to Porter Square. My friend and I would like some advice on where to find the following: For the kitchen: A butcher – Savenor’s is not a daily option. I know about McKinnon’s....

I’m with Queen Bee. Love to think of recipes for the various challenges. I was surpised everyone except Marcel played it so safe. Carlos, that salad? Betty what were you thinking? the twice fried potato thing, trio?...

ok this is not an allergy to cats thread but how do you CHers feel about being invited to someone’s house where you know, positively, that their cats are allowed to, and do, roam on the kitchen counters? I love animals, have...

Hello, hounds, Well, October is only days away now, so I thought we should have a conversation about how the cookbook of the month experiment is going. Have you enjoyed it? Is it manageable with the limited thread format we have...

After I had been living in Japan for 4 years (and had successfully managed to avoid some of the really icky things I never wanted to try: baby bee larvae, roasted crickets), my parents' friends came over for a visit and invited...

the money, per se. What I can’t abide is a restaurant meal that doesn’t live up to the hype. I have bee caught out too many times paying good $$$ for crap. Only last year I was FURIOUS to have been hoodwinked (it was...

Last evening, I was dining in a respectable sushi restaurant in Dallas. Just a few chairs away from me were a family of three who looked somewhat out of place. All were dressed in shorts and tee shirts, Mom had one of those...

My sister ordered from Grand Sechuan at St. Marks (8 Street) located between 2nd and 3rd Avenue (NYC, NY). The bill was $65. The distance was up one block and across one avenue. She didn’t know how much to tip, but figured...

Ordered the moist brisket (as opposed to the lean), sausage and the creamed yams. Both sets of meat were very good as were the yams. Except for all of the fat on the brisket. Given that they charge you for the meat by the pound,...

The cases of sardines were in Tenant’s Harbor in the late 80’s. One could still get “deals” at the Prospect Harbor cannery until Bumble Bee bought them out a few years ago and now nada. So it goes....

Yeah, The Georgia Bar in Athens, GA has a popcorn machine and a roasted peanut machine, and I’ve always thought that was the bee's pajamas. I’d vote to add Tom Waits, Howlin Wolf, George Jones and John Coltraine to...

Hey everyone, I was discussing this today where I work, and I thought it’d make a good “poll” question for ya’all... 1. Wendys 2. McDonalds 3. Burger King 4. Arbys 5. Sonics 6. In-and-Out 7. Tommy’s 8....