I put hot things in my refrigerator all the time. I just don’t set a container of hot soup on top of a big block of feta cheese waiting to be turned into tiropita. That would be serious cheese abuse! The “rule”...

anything from a tempura’ed shrimp to mayonnaise and mentaiko to hunks of ginger-fried chicken, so tastes are certainly changing. After seeing a few of those, hey, what’s a little more wasabi powder in the murasaki....

think having my guests watch the cat pee and poop is not very nice. I don’t want it in my bedroom and my bathroom is not big enough, it’s hardly big enough for me to get in, let alone a cat box. The only remaining...

, the cook brought us both soup, chicken with escarole, it was delicious. The slices I’ve enjoyed most are the house slice, arugala and prosciutto, and the broccoli rabe and sausage one. For $5 you can get a calzone as big as...

Buy 100g of oil-packed tuna from a large can at an Italian street market in July and eat it with fresh tomatoes, olives, and great tuscan bread... then say that one more piece of tuna sushi or yet another hunk of grilled tuna on...

What we’ll often do when Mrs. F and I go out is that one will do the Spice menu and the other orders off the regular menu (not big on dessert and splitting one is enough). Plus a good bottle of wine and the servers...

There’s a reviewer here in the San Gabriel (greater Los Angeles) area that uses phrases like "chewing on a hunk o' meat" and “great chow” that is absolutely revolting to me.

Just bide your time. 35 years ago you could have said the same about American beers. Now we probably have as big a variety of high-quality small brewery products as any country in the world (and certainly have outstripped the UK...

. There are a lot of discussions on the Homecooking board on various country themed dinners. If I were having a US-themed party outside of US, my menu would include pizza, hot dogs and choc chip cookies for dessert (big wow for...

Lots of things... but: Steak. I really have a problem understanding the whole high end steak house concept. Hmm- pay $40+ for a hunk o' meat (never great, usually good, often poorly done). And $5 for some creamed spinach, or a $7...

DO we go out for here in Cali. Answer: a) Steaks at an informal place with good Colombian range-fed meat and an Argentinian “grill master” (I rarely cook hunks of meat per se at home); and b) inexpensive popular local...

) for Pack Your Knives Big Boy. No loss in Jfood’s eyes. Richard - jfood thought the brightest spot in the entire night was the jicama taco, what brilliant idea (insert paws clapping). Major uptick in “smokey's”...

I would definitely say dinner at Pizzaiolo over A Cote — I love A Cote, but I think they only take reservations early and late, and the wait can be long, especially for large groups (I’m not sure how big your staff...

er spaniels(this actually happened), put you in a special agricultural customs line, and you get away with it.You collapse with delight, pull out a hunk of stinky cheese and have a sandwich, right there at Newark airport....

hello, patronizing, perhaps, and I think very unflattering too. It lists some the the big dawg’s maxims as if they were unsubstantiated generalizations. In fact, I went to a place in DC he praised, and went by the 'most...