leaves the air pig-scented for days. I’ll agree with the people who say puff-pastry (maybe if I had a food processor, I would do the quick version), and add danish/croissant dough. I hate, hate, hate skinning hazelnuts, but...

Jeff, Are you referring to that cafeteria type place with the roasted suckling pig and rice pudding that made me weep? Ron

made a scallop dish and a trout dish (see below) for me, that I liked all of the dishes, and that the dishes had come out quite distinctly. For example, Dan has furnished smoked trout. (5) Local Blue Trout, Roasted Beets, Pinenuts...

The most important things to me are that the guests enjoy themselves and help themselves to the food in a most hearty manner. I don’t mean to eat like pigs, but a sublime moment is when there is a lull in the conversation...

Baked potatoes, oven baked chicken, frozen corn and Buddig smoked ham slices. All remind me of my tortured childhood food experiences. My mother catered to the lowest common denominator which was my brothers, who wouldn’t...

for a Portugese experience, I’d recommend you try churrasqueria chicken – toronto has several places. my fave place is Dupont BBQ (on Dupont/Symington): great roast chicken with piri piri sauce, they also have some...

it’s roasting your first leg of lamb or making your first loaf of bread. Watch carefully someone who knows what they’re doing, then go off by yourself and practice. Until I was taught, I always thought puff pastry was...

Cheese is better. The US has a law banning raw milk cheese aged less than 60 days (though some shops manage to get these), Canada doesn’t have anything similar. We pig out on real Brie when we’re there. Yogurt is...

here on the border in Yuma, a useful definition for an “authentic” restaurant would be one run by or catering to newer, more recently immigrated individuals. In other words, Mexican food like what one finds in Mexican...

knew about — like red burgundy and duck. so i’m open-minded. but being a food lover (or a chowhound) doesn’t mean you’ll eat anything. that’s being a pig.

ok, some more timing thoughts: Don’t order seafood on days with an “n” preceded by a vowel! In Chinese barbecue places, wait until they’ve hacked to the middle of the suckling pig before rushing forward to...