Wow- so sad to hear about the antics of Cook’s Illustrated. I really enjoy it. I love materials that tell you why something is the way it is, that way I can make my own decisions in other situations. Sort of the Alton Brown...

in this order. The beef itself was pretty tasty once I scraped off the non-descript, slightly sweet brown gravy. It had decent grilled flavor and an unnatural reddish sodium glow. Starchy and flavorless corn and mushy spaghetti...

tasted fine, the sauce was bland and reminded me of the first time i tried to make a cream sauce (when i really didn’t know anything about cooking and essentially just poured some cream into a stirfry). My partner had the...

corns in California because of some controlled substance. That explains why I couldn’t find it anywhere in 99 Ranch. Interesting. Highlight: Slice Pork with Spicy Garlic Cucumber with Garlic fire bursted Tripe Frog with pickled...

, water chestnust, baby corns, enoki mushrooms, all of them can be used in stir fries. jared pickles – to use on top of jook or just a bit for plain rice Many places have pre-made dim sim items in the freezer isle – shu...

the first loses a little bit" is particularly appropriate here. Several bites of a double double will not stand up to several bites of, say, a gorgonzola dolce toasted pistachio risotto or homemade ice cream topped with forty...

preference). But I had and excellent Corned beef and rye with Russian at the Kosher deli – tender wet meat and very fresh bread(it surprised me because O ate there over a year ago and didn’t like it as much). There is...

with aged dry cheese grated over it, and grilleed corn. Pizza Amore, Pizza My Heart..Pink Godzilla for sushi..others....then there are the dim sum/jook places in sf...damn this list is hard and i havent even started to think...

, Willowside Meats, Niman Ranch, Angelo’s, Montibella, Martindale’s and I’m sure I’m forgetting someone), corned lamb and grilled racks from CK Lamb, and hot barbecued oysters from Johnson’s (can’t...

on the cinnamon stick to be the most successful dish—-I could identify three flavors (sweet potato, brown sugar/whiskey, and tempura batter) and the presentation was fantastic. If this had been the only dish, I would have...

Most: Pasta Mia Then, in no particular order: Asia Nora Lauriol Plaza Georgia Brown's ZPizza Meskerem Caucus Room Breadline Cakelove (not on chowhound) Mexicali Blues Urban BBQ Rocklands all the “fancy” pizza places (Pizzeria

at certain times the food memories that sparkle for a lifetime. That said, my personal “bucket list” would be: Tacos: The street vendor tacos of Tijuana from my childhood. The giant corn tortillas were fried up into...

Cristo — french toast, turkey, ham, swiss cheese with syrup. Mmmm. But I neved did understand (or taste) pineapple on pizza...

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

what about the irish bar across from the train station and the german place right by there, are they still open? I used to hang out around there and really liked the food at both places. the irish bar was a bar, but with good...