psb: It’s not exactly a newsflash to most consumers that luxury goods have huge markups over their production costs. The brand and its associations (“I can afford to buy the costliest chocolate on earth”) are...

Andy Cohen: Let’s play Top Chef word association. Marcel? Padma Lakshmi: Wolverine. http://www.bravotv.com/blog/andysblog/2007/01/padma.php?page=2

't mean to minimize the very serious nature of certain kinds of food-borne illness, but I’m certainly not going to spend my life worrying about it. We do have a pretty safe food supply in North America.

. The sheer delicousness of Curry Corner finally sparked a passion in Indian food and it is located in a neighborhood not only not associated with good food but never mentioned. I don’t see why identifying the gems in a...

for neuroscience) http://www.apa.org/monitor/jan98/food.html american psychological association for those chowhounds who are pregnant,the above is really interesting. re early experiences: taste developed "through breast milk and...

. Mei Wen means America China but it also means beautiful brilliant.

someone like Jane Grigson (I associate Elizabeth David more with introducing Brits to OTHER cuisines, her occasional forays into English Yeast Cookery, etc aside). Grigson’s recipes make for good reading, cooking...

and are mainly cultivated in Central and South America. The flesh can be white, yellow, purple or pink and the skins are off white to dark brown. They can range in size from the size of a regular potato to up to 150 lbs.

I think it would be an interesting study to see how people from different cultures view the rules and traditions associated with their food. I’ve always thought the strangest adherents to food rules were Italians —...

because (1) ones does not normally associate such strong acidity with a confit, nor with rabbit, (2) in certain Asian dishes, glass or cellophane noodles are accompanied by a usually thinner-consistency sauce that has acidity...

My son’s friends always got a full course Korean meal when they ate at our house. Kaibi, Bulgogi, grilled pork belly, Ddeok Bo ki, Mandu soup, and all the associated banchan.

Thanks Nick, I will try them. It’s just that the pad thai I used to get was not really sweet at all. Like I said in my earlier post, it’s not "america" that likes sweet as much as its a regional thing out here. A...

Okay, so here’s the backstory: Five or six years ago, my high school alumni association had a St. Patrick’s Day party at Spago. They served perhaps the yummiest dessert I’ve ever tasted: a decadent banana...

at the original Ninfa’s on Navigation Boulevard in Houston which Newsweek only a month or so before called America's best Mexican/Tex Mex restaurant. Chef Paul was there the week before, two nights back to back. He liked...

I think it was America's Test Kitchen that recently did a show on this. They weighed the 2 pieces of meat prior to cooking, cooked one by popping in the oven and the other by searing on the stove top and then in the oven, and...