who picked us up later his Hero. Having done it, I don’t know if it’s worth all that trouble. Fun to do once just to check out 4th Street, but only because I live in the area. Not a priority for visitors.

I love food. If you’re reading this, odds are you love food too. I currently am in law school and am living on student loans. Needless to say, this means that I am on a very tight budget. One of the things I’ve really...

Thanks everyone so far, I’m getting a lot of ideas and this is actually fun, like solving a puzzle. I have another friend who lives close by who is also veg, although she’ll occaisonally eat chicken(obviously not an...

on this teapot: "Rockingham Teapots from England. Where they know how to make the best tea. Generations of tea connoisseurs have declared that this teapot, made in Stoke-on-Trent, England, makes the best pot of tea in the world....

PBR is pretty awful – only good for cooking brats in before you grill them!

a decent living.

Hey Peppermint Pate. I love your home cooking posts (just by the by...). I think that Cafe Gitane makes a great coffee, though I always get their cafe americaine, so can’t speak to the espresso. I thought Bao 111 was wayyy...

the majority of her shopping at Safeway. Stores like this one are trying to exploit a couple of different markets they were losing: prepared foods to bring back the people who rarely cook at home and thus don’t buy raw...

I recently moved here from Europe and can’t live without my breads... Any suggestions?

and appreciation? Give me a #$%^&@?!! Break!" That is how people are — right? I feel for anybody who loves to cook and wants to serve. Why? You not only have to deal with people (People are animals you know?) but you must...

being a good buy. There may be much better buys available that your wine merchant can turn you onto that never make a by-the-glass list. Presuming that there are a variety of merchants within, say, a half-hour’s drive of...

I used to live in the South End and ventured into B&G every once in a while. There was always a wait, so I never actually ate there. But from what I’ve seen of both of them, I think Neptune’s staff is way friendlier....

will succeed. They did NOT pad your bill, you got what you paid for. It may not have been what you really wanted, but you did get it. I say live and learn.

touristy. One deservedly famous and crowded steak place is Gibsons. It generally lives up to the hype and is Chicago-only. Gene & Georgetti is the oldest (60 years, same location, Sinatra’s favorite, etc.) and is an Italian...

their Taiwan teas to be their specialty. Their puerhs were all the cooked (black) variety, and I prefer the green, raw ones. I’m mostly drinking those green puerhs these days, and various oolongs: light and med. oxidation,...