Christmas is just a few weeks away. If you are entertaining, you are bound to have a few light (lite?) weight visitors who want a lower calorie beer with their snacks, taste be damned! The 4 beers will go fast.

's memories of him, (He was a Beni Hana chef) but maybe the weight of owning his own business? He seems to do a steady dinner business and has a loyal local following. The weeks after Christmas here are pretty quiet, with little...

3 sons are quite chowish and I actually had my own assortment platter of sushi with them on Christmas Day, rather than me ‘taking a taste’ of theirs! (oldest son declared at noon..“Dude, I am dying for some...

it up for you. They may ask you to step back to allow other, less-savvy people to get the stuff sitting under the heat lamp, and if the line is ridiculous (summer, Spring Break, Christmas) or they’re understaffed (rarely),...

Finally ate at CF over the Winter Holidays. We were shopping the after Xmas sales at Sawgrass Mills in FL and found ourselves there at dinner. Wanted to try Legal Seafoods but the wait was too long. Wasn’t expecting much....

Since arriving on the CH site late Christmas Eve, all aspects of food have rampantly overtaken vast areas of my thinking. A kind of ethnic thought cleansing is the manner in which I could describe the process. Here is a current...

at the University of Toronto. Ahh all the best food techniques are straight from the labs. What a great experience. Your Susur experience must have been much better. I wish I had tried him while he was in Toronto. I tried to drag...

Hey guys, long time reader, first post compelled to chime in. Tried Amazing 66 on xmas since all the dimsum places were packed and it looks clean. But omg the food is subpar; soup dumplings had no soup and skin is too thick, taro...

the Food Network on—Some holiday Food Network celebrity thing, with Paula as one of the participants; The Food Challenge, Christmas tree decorating edition; then Iron Chef America, holiday edition, featuring Tyler Florence...

the morning after July 4 (firecrackers scare pets), Halloween (kids in costume, ditto) and Christmas & Thanksgiving (your Uncle Joe doesn’t know he shouldn’t hold the door open or the cat might escape). I don’t...

'll have to stock up at Christmas. On a side note. I’ve recently come to loving my dogs on top split buns. I had some left over from the lobster rolls I made one time and just had dogs to use them up. They’re perfect....

If you’d consider ethnic holiday spirit, Christmas tamales are a very old Mexican tradition, but they’re great at Thanksgiving too. Yeah, usually sweet tamales, but savory come in there too... But who needs the work...

do and go to one of the spots just off the plaza that specialize in fried calamari sandwiches. Won’t cost more than 2 Euros for take out and it’s tradition (especially at Christmas). I usually go to the places just...

Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately Guy Savoy and Bubbles Bar are going to be closed the time that I’m out there (right before Christmas).

I second this recommendation. My aunt (an excellent cook) gave everyone a tastebook for Christmas one year and I love it. A couple of my favorite recipes. http://www.savour-fare.com