Taste buds certainly do change. Try being pregnant! I’m six months pregnant and I’ve developed more food aversions than cravings. I can’t stomach the blandest things, like chicken and pasta. Go figure. But...

I adore eggs but they tend to cause odoriferous problems and stomach cramps so I have to avoid them, although it’s worse with fried eggs and hard-boiled eggs. I can tolerate scrambled a bit more. I also loooove raw onion in...

(several cheese were chosen and combined with infinite wisdom, and the pasta wasn’t soft or broken up). They do this every year on the last Saturday in July. If you’re any kind of chowhound, you’ll mark your...

. Of course, we have the problem of getting truly fresh seafood. The other issue: New Orleans is a cuisine stuck in time. That is part of the wonder, the tremendous backlog of great dishes from turtle sauce picante to boiled beef...

3 quart sauce pan, heat vinegar and 2 cups sugar to boiling over medium heat. Continue cooking until mixture turns dark amber in color, 15 to 20 minutes, stirring occasionally. If using a candy thermometer, it should reach about...

confidence that I am not going to find ... better Italian fare in general than at home." Sorry, don’t agree here. I find so few Italian places in NY that can cook a pasta al dente. Lupa, barely. Instead here most good...

not ask for a taste but they said that the pods are also steeped and boiled as needed. Ding, ding, ding! Benchmarks!!! A most brilliant discovery! Congratulations! Definitely worth getting to know better. I ended up at the flea...

You’re right. But the point was, the cook should have known no? Imagine going to a diner and asking for a soft boiled egg and you got eggs “sunny side up loose” instead? For heaven’s sake, it was a steak...

The short answer is yes. I find the biggest rip-off to be baked goods. They are often so beautiful but when you get them home are average at best. One FM in Blacksburg, VA does have some great salsa and pasta sauces, but they are...

as not to mess with it, perhaps they could have said on the menu “A Perfect Nectarine” - and maybe not marked it up to outrageousness. I don’t know but to me, it boils down to not respecting the guest very much....

Yup, that’s exactly what I’m talking about. I use sports water bottles that are meant to be reused multiple times and can be sanitized in boiling hot water (eg, the dishwasher) after each use. Reusing the bottles that...

to look identical. I bet you could tell the difference if someone threw a boiled blue on the newspaper and a package of kani kama... although how you’d open the plastic package with the mallot, I’d never know. With...

loans to boot, times were very lean. I recall a lot of pasta, rice, and noodles.

://www.chow.com/places/163 Dinner California Chicken Café (Chinese Chicken Salad – say no pasta but add extra almonds) http://www.californiachickencafe.com/ Hav’a good time and say “Hi” to the boys back home for...

.spanish-food-and-recipes.com/spanish_rice_recipes.html Spanish rice w/ clams http://www.inmamaskitchen.com/RECIPES/RECIPES/GrainPastaBeans/rice_clams_Spanish.html Clams with Garlic Sauce...