French Fries: Dick’s, Spokane, WA (McDonald’s original fries from '50’s & '60’s. Yes!) Honorable mention: Arthur Bryant’s, Kansas City, MO (cooked in pure lard) Thrasher’s, Ocean City

Organic Milk. Most organic milk is not what milk tastes like. Most is ulta-pasturized which gives it a "cooked" taste. Now, you may just be used to that flavor. That’s fine if you like that. I just came back from the...

and the pastries unremarkable. Sometimes when I didn’t feel like cooking, I would get spaghetti from the Red Onion. They used to feature a great $5 special. And I used to get the BLTs there occasionally too. I think the...

opinions of) the same old genres. Fresh opinions, tips, and sightings on every chow topic are the engine that makes the site work in the big picture, even if it doesn’t always make for the most scintillating reading...

I fear your memories of the old Millie’s may be tinted by nostalgia. Paul G. had a passive-aggressive habit of going back and forth between the griddle and the engine of his old Indian motorcycle without washing his hands,...

Believe me, the travel time makes a huge difference. In the areas where they eat it habitually in Italy, after a day or so it’s considered past it’s prime and then it gets used in cooking rather than just being eaten...

://web.archive.org/web/20000510060709/http://chowhound.com/ Ahh, the good old days, before that Google search engine was implemented! Mr Taster

, only on weekends. otherwise its a bakery. kibi meatballs, salbutos etc. much tastier than chichen itza at the mercado la paloma. yucatecan cuisine has moroccan influence so the cooking style is very different from most other...

ethnic places. City Pages has a pretty good search engine if you just want to read her old reviews. http://www.citypages.com/databank/28/1363/article15064.asp Also, Kathie Jenkins' little blurb in the Pioneer Press on Thursdays...

in the situation you describe everyone goes home except the server and the chef. server serves the customer and closes the front of the house, bussing for her/himself. i am the chef. i cook & plate the food, working all...

I swear we’ve had this topic come up before, but hell if I can find it with the stupid search engine! Anyway, I’ve never had NY style pizza that I know of, but I would think Papakeno’s would be close with your...

information request. This site has been a fount of culinary knowledge for me and I’ve been “eating out” and cooking for a long time.

but historically this means the use of more fried foods, bean sprouts, water chestnuts, water crest, peas (long storable or freezable) and sauces in cooking that became instituationalized.

I used to be a short order cook at a small “sports bar” in a strip mall that did the black-pants-white-shirt-bow-tie thing with the bartenders and it always felt a little fake. Like they were trying too hard to be...

appetizers, burgers, sandwiches, and pastas. The best food item was without a doubt the cheeseburger. A large patty of beef was cooked medium rare just as requested (I find it bodes well when a server asks how you’d like...