preferred by the Greeks and each of them would represent/work with their own feta-makers from back home. But how about the other cultures: do the Serbs or the Bulgars or the Turks have their own preferred sources/types? Must go...

tomatoes for a dollar a piece. Huge heads of just picked lettuce for a dollar. Not to mention fish purchased from the fishermen and sausages bought from the sausage maker. I think Critser completely ignores Alice Waters' normal...

the great bookstore across the street, Black Oak Books. 1491 Shattuck Ave Berkeley, CA (510) 486-0698 Of course you might want to see the epicenter of the coffee revolution, Peet’s on Walnut and Vine, just up the road. Pop...

, and crumple the garbage and the newspapers. voila, clean counter in under a minute! This trick has saved me tons of time! Oh, and sometimes when I want to watch tv, I do all my prep (same style) on my coffee table.

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

they have artisan bread over store bought and it’s brought to us warm in a basket vs. cold and flopped on our plates. Trying to stir regular sugar into iced tea or iced coffee is something that you shouldn’t have to...

leaf smeared with a lime or crushed rose petal paste, wrapped around a variety of spices such as cloves, aniseed and cardamom, as well as grated coconut. Mine had fennel, as well as a number of other spices about which our very...

a huge batch of his ‘famous’ M&M cookies. He was so happy one year when we bought him a bread maker I thought he’d burst. That man spent his life looking for the perfect cheeseburger. He loved experiencing life...

.) I have no idea how they make this sauce or where they get it, but I’d eat there again. (The sole exception was the coffee, which was truly dreadful.)

Plain jelly beans, often from tiny no-name candy makers, are better than froufrou pectin jelly beans. I also prefer Breyer’s to Haagen Dazs.

legwork to figure out what criteria you have used to make this statement. Are you an artisanal cheese maker who uses a generation-old recipe to make raw milk cheeses? Are you a Philly cheese steak vendor whose been living and...

. All I know is tuna sandwiches and pots of coffee always taste better when someone else makes em. THM

That looks wonderful. Serving coffee? I’ll be right over!

for chicken fricasee; the Farberware coffee percolator; the old waffle iron; dented blackened cookie sheets that my mother will never replace; the knife that my grandmother brought over with her from Poland 70-odd years ago, worn...