Continuing a discussion from the NYC board about pastrami... When I order pastrami I usually put a bit of Russian dressing on it, as well as mustard. Some balked at putting Russian on pastrami. I was wondering if anyone knew the...

accompaniment to a meat or fish dish is “salsa” (true, this is Spanish)? Goats’ milk cheese is usually “chevre” (forgive the absence of the accent over the first “e”)? After all, do we call cows’ milk cheese “vache”?

It’s a nice question, but waaaaaaaay too broad as a thesis, unless you can further specify what you want to know. "Why are grits an inherently Southern dish?" Look at it this way: What’s California cuisine? Ask people...

is sold through Amazon.com, who will ship to Hawaii from what I understand, plus sometimes people can find this in the dry milk section of Safeway stores, as a few of them on the Islands get from their warehouse in California....

products they offer here in California including raisins, trail mix, a ton of fresh produce, as well as milk [even in milk boxes for kids], butter, juice. Awesome place to buy fresh flowers for your home or as a gift. And I agree...

Penzey’s is a favorite with me, too. Also, for my pizza sauce, I buy "6 IN 1 All-Purpose Ground Tomatoes in Extra-Heavy Puree – 28 oz. can" from Escalon in California. Some are fortunate enough to find them in their...

, milk, frozen wild salmon, the frozen blueberries and french green beans, nuts, and the reduced fat cheeses. They’re all cheaper than the competition. But then I don’t live where there is a cheesemonger around the...

Ambroeus; establishments that might excel at serving nearly exact facsimiles of Italian espresso. It makes perfect sense; the search for authentic food is a frequent activity on these boards. But the problem with authentic...

. What is different is the marketing, with TJ’s marketing people being in California and Aldi’s marketing people being in their US headquarters in Batavia IL (a far west Chicago suburb), and TJ’s selling only...

the seasons come in and out. It’s nice. Get in touch with nature. Actually, I think the thing that made me most in touch with my California locale and cheap was the purchase of two extraordinary vegetable books –...

of a Double Double and a Vanilla Milk Shake ONLY As for place that does fresh RIGHT, head to Scoobys, they slice that HUGE russet 10 feet away from you and fry that sucker up PERFECT!! Sprinkled with seasoning salt and then served...

with canned coconut milk and Mae Ploy curry pastes,combined with seasonal vegetables and with or without meat. I also wanted to honor our fellow vignerons in Europe by cooking the dishes that they serve their workers traditionally...

.S.? We live in California, so one thing we thought of bringing was avocados. And we know that our relatives like American-style peanut butter. Other than that, we’re stumped. Any ideas?

-Eleven store in my neighborhood in Kensington, MD when I saw something new – a king size Hershey Milk Chocolate Bar Filled With Creamy Peanut Butter. I’m not even the biggest Reese’s fan. (I find the...

with soy-milk to graciously make spouse muffins one Sunday AM and realizing: "I’ve smelled this before, but not in 12 years: it’s the same smell as soy-based baby formula! Yechhhh!" rfgs