of a recent tasting that will give you a feel for the place: http://endlessbanquet.blogspot.com/2006/06/spring-tea-annual-2006.html As far as I know, there aren’t any problems with shipping tea and coffee across the border....

see david joachim & rochelle davis' book “Fresh Choices” for more on the “dirty dozen” or “dirty ten” list. the “dirtiest” crops are a good place to start eating sustainably but it...

? Thanks again, of course, to our organizers and to the visitors from far-away places! I have GOT to go make myself some coffee . . . and, dare I?, try the spinach pie that I snagged at the end having never gotten around to it...

Ooooch. DH is carribean by birth & has a deep-seated childhood attachment to evapped milk in his coffee. I have to say that since it’s always around, I’ve gotten used to it and find that it is very helpful in all...

or use the closed captioning feature. Nothing should EVER interfere with conversation. 3. Jukebox. A big one. Add Motown, Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, British Invasion, Ramones, David Bowie, Lou Reed ... Again, the volume should be...

You forgot Lawrence, KS. I haven’t eaten in Manhattan in ages, but I’m pretty sure Lawrence (with the brewery, ice cream shop, tea/coffee houses, bakeries, etc) should be #2 behind KC. Topeka can stay at the bottom of...

). Coffee and wine are good for you now right?

Sweet Joanna’s and Krivaar (and the fab Mab!)—I’m getting flashbacks to the 80s. Is there still a Sweet Joanna’s at Bay and Powell (I lived around the corner and depended on their coffee and muffin...

with aspartame, the resulting product often seems to taste better. Having said that, I see that the Canadian formula for Coke Blak seems to contain aspartame, Ace-K, Splenda, and sugars. The drink tasted disgusting to me (and I...

to Fatburger, and is a slightly different beast. They offer the small thin patties (as opposed to Fatburger’s big patties), and have a very narrow menu, with only 8 items (hamburger, cheeseburger, Double-Double, fries,...

crab tail, a real irish coffee at the buena vista, pacific oysters, a tasting of napa and sonoma valley wines, maybe a hangtown fry, maybe some abalone somewhere if available. Even the mission style sf burritos with i believe...

of their staple items when the prices are reasonable. Some of the items that I would always buy at TJ’s like coffee, I have been ordering through mail order from other sources. Other places worth a note: EUROFRESH, Palatine On...

—the gigettes are great. But there is more bad bread today than there was 20 years ago. There is also worse coffee nowadays and some of us despair of ever seeing the Real Thing again. I suggest that there is a different...

word to that. (keeping it short today—no coffee yet.)

I know you said you didn’t want to rely on cookbooks, but I would highly recommend reading through “It's All American Food” by David Rosengarten. It was published about 3 years ago and he does an excellent job...