with the way we were brough up. For example, Johnny’s Reef obviously awakens childhood memories in you that I don’t have. For me the equivalent would be a lobster boil place on a Maine peninsula. Best, Patrick

I encountered real turnips later in life, I did not like them as much as rutabagas. But I never had boiled rutabagas: only mashed or roasted.

duh-uh...! Google is my friend! They’re an heirloom Chinese peach that is making a come back. Also alled “donut peacheds” and "bagel peaches." If anyone sees them, buy a bushel and run. They are the most...

/ fresh unsweetened heavy whipping cream, then move on to soft boiled eggs w/ ficelle bread and potatoes and other goodies. not cheap, but sort of expensive but still good quality ingredients (but as a side note, lunches and...

point or another. I’ve sampled bagels, cheeses, pies, jerky, olive oils, and pupusas, just to find the best anywhere. I’ve sampled pickled jellyfish, scrambled eggs with brains, and kimchee. I’ve eaten all over New...

- the chicken cutlet is perfect and cooked with love. Soups are a specialty, especially those involving hard-boiled egg and dill. New Prospect Cafe- sometimes great, sometimes terrible. Sometimes the service is abysmal. But...

develop insulated fingertips, so I usually boil them with the skins and then just pull the skins off easily. Sometimes they are a little too hot and I’ll use a knife to scrape them quickly, but it is much faster than...

Bagels with lox and cream cheese. I have guaranteed heartburn afterward, abetted by lots of seltzer.

Toaster. I hate toast, bagels, etc... Juicer.....Actually, I will get rid of it. Who wants a juicer?

and some real Cheddar. Peter would head down to Haymarket and we’d all help debeard the mussels to have on the spaghetti. Carlos was our improv artist: he would pillage the bulk bins at the food co-op, boil it up and call...

- for example, yesterday I bought the most aromatic, sweet, overflowing pint of tiny strawberries for $4.00, as well as tiny new potatoes that I scraped, boiled and tossed with butter and mint a la Simon Hopkinson for dinner....

to the Gujarati sections of North London, a Thai community above London, Green Lanes, etc. It’s just that what I’ve seen in Brixton, Vauxhall, Shepherds Bush, Clapham, Battersea, White Chapel, Brick Lane (actually...

the convenient route by letting the bread machine automate the process. My first out of the machine baking will probably be for rolls, pizza dough, and bagels.

You can find reasonably good Mexican Food at the Villa Mexicana in the gas station on Cambridge Street across from Finagle a Bagel near Mass. General Hospital. Very spicy homemade salsa, great tamales, good burritos etc.

other ingredients. Whereas 30 years ago, I could count many excellent pizzerias in central Long Island, the number of such has dwindled and my family in the boroughs report the same phenomenon. Just like bagels. By contrast,...