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Argentina: Salta, Juyuy, Tilcara
all of the unusually colorful and beautifully carved rocks was closed. However, we could do a hike. The entrance fee and the hike cost AP $84 for the two of us/ US $27.45. It was a two and ½ hour hike at midday in 36°/96° dry...
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Opening Night: Peking Duck at the new Duck House (Lu Ding Ji) (Monterey Park) [Review] w/ Pics!
on their menu, and was a favorite of many of my Chinese Cuisine Hounds. Upon first glance, it looks similar to “Salt & Pepper” (Jiao Yen) preparation, but looking closer, and it does indeed resemble its name:...
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Why won't guests use coasters????
than stemmed glasses). The best looking coasters don’t prevent the glasses from sticking, while the ugly cork ones do. We have some wooden ones with circles carved into them which work fairly well.
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Chicago Cheap Eats Comfort Food
Any list like this is incomplete without Sun Wah. Outstanding Chinese BBQ (and other stuff) at absurdly low prices. The Beijing Duck dinner in one of (if not) the best deals in the city. They bring out a whole duck and carve off...
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Family foods I thought was normal
My family gathered like vampires to sop up the blood from rare roast beef being carved onto slices of white bread...It wasn’t until we started bringing “important” dates home for dinner and saw the horrified...
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quintessential memphis & nashville
and it was fairly good. Overall, I recommend Swett’s or Arnold’s for our local “meat-n-three” cuisine, though there are other good choices for this type of Southern food: Pie Wagon, Dandgure’s, Silver...
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the best SANDWICH in (Los Angeles) period.
Good thread. Lots of great sandwiches. My current fav is the Smoked pork and apple sauce sand. at the Village Idiot on Melrose. That sand. with fries, a side of bacony brussel sprouts and a glass or Spanish rose or a nice cider...
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Baking From My Home to Yours: Cookies
Salt & Pepper Cocoa Cookies were a disappointment. The recipe is not difficult at all, but the texture was very much like fine, dry sand. Plus I don’t think there was quite enough sugar – and the recipe only uses...
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Downtown food court battle is on! Office cog survey!
table/buffet/bad salad bar? Wakana Sushi in the Macy’s plaza is good, $5.99 spicy tuna bowl, salmon is always good, tuna is good most of the time The place on the left side of the elevator bank has freshly carved turkey...
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Expats and ex-expats, what are your experiences cooking overseas?
. Learned to scuba dive and if the pikeperch weren’t biting, put on wet suits and speared flounder on a sand bar in the Baltic. Learned to enjoy a rappu fest (crayfish) and the great berries of summer. Returned to Maine for...
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Idiotic things you do in the kitchen
Those egg timers just don’t make enough noise when the sand has run out. I have been known to forget to put water in the pan when using the steamer basket, as has my husband. It’s obvious when one looks at that pan...
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France/Alsace reviews: Au Tilleul, Le Strasbourg, L'Arnsbourg
are surely from nearby Sarreguemines. The ceiling is supported by plain wooden columns, but each one is cleverly carved from a single tree trunk. The food is brought out in gleaming copper pans, and is transferred to warm plates...
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What is Your Favorite Non-Foodie Thanksgiving Dish?
in the oven and set the timer so it started cooking at like 3 a.m., because they liked to wake up in the morning to the smell of turkey. When it was done (she always cooked a 20+ pound bird) she’d carve it all up and put it...
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What do you think the new trend in Kosher will be?
both in the nonJewish and Jewish worlds. Turbot? No more than any other fish (sole, sand dabs, and other flat fish are much the same, subject to economics). Chilean Sea Bass was big in the kosher market just as it was in the...
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cooking chore you like the least
't care for cooking it (it spits at me!) carving any sort of beast- this could change if f I had better knives picking meat off the carcass (almost as bad as washing the bird) deep frying – so I leave it to the pros emptying...
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