Sweet Salvation

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Summer 2009 Gift Guide

All your warm-weather gifting needs met.

Looking all over Manhattan for the old-fashioned metal lunchboxes that have room in the top for an adult-sized thermos (can’t even remember what they’re called, but they’re domed at the top). Does someone still...

when times are hard. Personally, we are devoting our dining out food dollars to a limited collection of little places we want to survive and skipping completely the big dollar places. So if you like Lunchbox or if, like me, you...

OK, I’m a 28 year old man. I became professional cook 5 years ago after years and years of home experimentation, and eventually cooking school. I have a modest sized collection of cookbooks which I refer to more for...

There are a couple of excellent diners off I89 at Exit 1, just before you reach Queechee Gorge. Sorry I don’t remember the names. One is “Someone's? Family Diner”. It is in a small strip mall type building. They...

Between here and Stanford, I used to stop at the Apricot Tree Inn merely for the decor. They have this massive collection of old lunchboxes around the restaurant up on the beams, walls, etc. Food is really just okay, but the...

. The various roasts, chops, and shoulders I’ve played with have been wonderful, I’d recommend passing on the sausages, but do not pass go, do not collect $200 until you eat the BACON!!! I actually thought I was...

hardwood floors, pressed-tin ceiling, wooden freezer door in the back... the walls are covered in an intruiging collection of flea market finds, ranging from bakelite radios to lunchboxes. the upstairs exudes a 'grandma’s...

a fantastic collection of vintage lunchboxes.

Quinn’s Lunchbox Laboratory

not be a connoisseur of bento boxes but I just don’t see a big market in them. I will just stick with the lunchbox or Tupperware container for now. I would think Minoya, Kazy’s, and Super H Mart as wells as several...

, such as it were- the duck will release enough of its own fat without having to add much to the pan- maybe a tablespoon at most. Rendering duckfat is easy, but keeping and collecting it takes some meditation. If you just use the...

, right across from the big post office off of Forest Ave. Very impressive vintage lunchbox collection on the ceiling, among other things. Warning: Junk-on-the-wall overload. Lighted dance floor. Pretty over-the-top, actually....

Lunchbox Laboratory (Ballard) A wide array of gourmet burgers. The building is a bit of a dive, but the burgers are fun and creative. Try the Dorkburger (Duck & Pork)!! The chef’s experience is in fine dining. He had a heart...