. Plated it in a straight rectangle with the soccarat chunks placed organically on top. Added with sea urchin for that sweet briny seafood taste, lemon pudding, and fried calamari. Finished with squid ink vinaigrette. Dreaming up...

I used to hate Hate HATE fish, too. After a childhood spent choking down the bones of milkfish and abiding the briny smell of salted and fried fish, I rarely order fish when dining out. But now that I’m learning to cook...

than i expected — double the size of kumamotos) oysters. my husband was the designated shucker, since he doesn’t eat oysters. we had about 35 raw and 15 on the bbq, and i truly don’t know which were better, as...

up on a local menu; vanilla sauce with shrimp, fried leeks, and mascarpone [which seemed to accompany everything that evening]. The vanilla sauce dominated, though there was a briny aftertaste from the surprisingly chewy shrimp....

I love this shot of the shrimp “pinwheel”. The chef has a great touch with each form of shrimp in our dinner. I especially loved the heads with the sweet roe and shrimp fat. The shells were very suckable to get every...

To clarify once again, foo yee is not extremely funky. It’s just slightly funky. Briny. Heaven when cooked with greens and garlic. Taiwanese stinky tofu is a different thing, and I can’t abide it. Different things.

The most subtle of the courses for me, the panna cotta was tabula rasa for the two expressions of brininess contributed by the oyster glaze and the osetra caviar. A continuing theme in these posts is the kitchen’s perfect...

with the falvorful fresh briny clams. A tiny point of spiciness created additional interest on the palate. Ma-Po tofu, a stalwart of the Szechuan kitchen, is transformed into a lighter dish by replacing the usual minced pork with...

of improvement in the cellar, concentrated and weighty with exotic fruit, caramel, Earl Grey tea, and mineral extract, very long and linear finish. EXCELLENT 1995 Cuvée Nicolas Francois Aubry, “Sable Rosé”, $43 –...

Bodega Bay to San Francisco? That gnarly traffic would put the whole unweave the weave on 35E to shame). Oysters are shipped live, right? Ideally, you’d want the ones that had been awakened and plucked from their briny...

pickle store that has not only pickles but other briny creations. Crif Dogs is a good spot for a definitely not-ordinary hot dog, plus it has a kind-of cool, kind-of cheesy speakeasy concept with PDT residing on the other side of...

From today’s review of Bar Boulud: http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/food/2008/02/19/2008-02-19_bar_boulud_features_wine_dining.html "A house-made linguine emerges terrifically light on its feet. It gets a briny...

When I was a Scotch noob, I didn’t yet know about the differences between highland, speyside, and islay. I just knew that I really liked the smoky and briny ones. The first good beer I had was in 1990, at a company picnic....

the ones with a $2000 bill. Beginning the Chef’s menu I was first presented with “Shellfish in Crab Broth with Unripe Strawberries,” a worthy start to an incredible journey. Briny with accents of pine, soy, and sesame – creamy...

and prasopita. Since the Greek side of my family were from the mountains these were all made with butter instead of olive oil, so much better. Mussels soup. My mother would make this clear briny broth that only i would eat. yum....