rooms in the Bay Area. You MUST ... MUST ... visit - Cape Cod – yeah, pretty mediocre - Tay Tah Cafe – come on. Give this place some business. They have Mitchell’s Ice Cream and lots of Asian candy. This place is...

For some reason, the post below about jews and chinese food got me thinking about my mom and dad, and which of them were more influential on my eventual love of cooking and more so, obsession with the collection and reading of...

Hershey’s TasteTations chocolate mint candies (remind me of the old LifeSavers choc-o-mint) Safeway’s Goo-Goo Cluster ice cream

OK, I just need to get this off my chest. The restaurant experience used to go like this: -Show up, talk to host, if table is not ready, retire to bar and have a tail or glass of wine until talble is ready. Sometime even show up...

My boyfriend is moving to another city to start med school, and I’m making him a cookbook. He is an okay but scared cook. He follows recipes precisely and doesn’t have a sense or feel for cooking yet. (ie there is a...

in an item; I dislike walnuts with an unholy passion. Walnut paste, walnut sprinkles, candied walnuts across a salad will cause me to ask for something else. (BTW: If it was mentioned in the description and I chose to order it...

of folks have decided to ignore. It’s like leaving a restaurant. They have a bowl of mints. Take as much as you want. Some people take a few for the drive home and some people take a couple of handfuls to fill their candy...

Now that you mention them, I remember all three of those places. I was under ten and mostly interested in Hooper’s candies.

I just read an article of the self-help variety in the local paper. A man wrote in complaining that he didn’t know how to cook and, as a result, was spending $16 a day on food. Lots of angry and agonised responses,...

Having grown up down South, I am a fan of old-time sugar-laden sodas, including some regional favorites like Cheerwine and Sun-Drop (yes, North Carolinian here)... but very happy with Classic Coke and Pepsi, too. In the last...

definitely the flavorings, nuts and dried and candied fruits(ALL must be FRESH), chocolate and butter. FAT. Margarine is not an option, unless you are on some dietary restriction – I’ll never forget how my Mom’s...

many peaches and nectarines in Mexico are imported from the US. in addition to all of what you mention, Mexico has wonderful pastries (probably a French influence), an incredible variety of candies and sweets, lots of shellish,...

WINTER SEASON ....a little more difficult. What type of creative meal can you prepare utilizing only ingredients that are native to your area/region? A radius of say 25 miles from home. (Not written in stone) As close to 100% local...

selections, and to pick up some candies for my mother and aunt. While everything was beautiful and the crepes appeared wonderful, the prices were decidedly even worse than Jean Phillipe and the selection less impressive. After...

. But, as a Dorito, each chip can be rated against its fellows—for instance, fresh Doritos are better than stale.) That said, I love McDonalds' classics: hamburgers (so sweet, they taste like candy!), fries, and chicken...