, cheeses, wine) from farm to table in hours not days. What makes Los Angeles a foodie city? What do you love, why do you LIVE TO EAT in Los Angeles?

wouldn’t really eat anything else there. Hole in the Wall is about the same overall. Big Stuff in Cottage Grove is worth the drive. I’ve tried most of the Thai places in town now and would rate them thusly:...

My wife and I had a meeting in Fullerton today and when it was over we were famished. After driving by In & Out, El Torito, The Cheese Cake Factory and getting closed out at the Sheraton Four Points, we were driving around looking...

- no salt packed anchovies here, and forget about the cheeses, pancetta and specific wines.) Got my inter-library loan copy of Elizabeth David yesterday...thank you Newport! Now where am I going to find me some pigeon?

and – the highlight – tomatoes and goat cheese, absolutely, positively delicious. A roasted chicken went by that looked great and we’re also big fans of the moules. Table is one of my favorites in Asheville, have...

is, at the Bar Harbor Inn. Make a reservation for the Sunday brunch. Walk it off on Bar Harbor’s "cottage" studded shore path. For ice cream, I recommend any place that sells Giffords. While not up on the first tier with my...

with the Pulled Pork Nachos, a definite hit with us. Just the perfect portion size for three people. Cheese, jalapeno, black olives, tomato, lettuce, onion, pulled pork, with BBQ sauce, sour cream, and salsa on the side. You...

Beaterville and the Overlook make good breakfasts. Not fancy "cottage potatoes" places but hash browns off the Sysco truck. However, the cooks at both of these places know how to make an egg over medium. And some mornings,...

more of a gatherer. Bacon and charcuterie from this store, raw milk cheese from that store, fruit from all over the place, chocolate from selected stores. I’m a modern baby!

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, is Le Quartier Francaise, http://www.capegrace.co.za/one/info.asp both the tasting restaurant and the rustic restaurant, and also the Chamonix vineyard and restaurant, where you can rent beautiful cottages with fireplaces and...

on and the discussions progressed, as they do, when one’s wife is still in the air. I ordered their cheese platter and tried their PX with a Montecristo #2. Because of the Port discussion, the bartender extended my “membership”...

they served me THREE FULL CHICKEN BREASTS covered in sauce and cheese. I ate maybe 1/4 of it and it was awful. On another plate was about 4 cups of pasta and a ‘vodka sauce’ that tasted like it used to be powdered and...

I too read about Wegman’s entrance into the VA-DC-MD market with great interest, especially since I’m from Rochester and as you might expect, watching Wegman’s grow is sort of a cottage industry there....

and apron and face covered with flour smudges when I make pies in the 60 year old oven or wood stove/oven in the ramshackle old cottage. There’s something about the taste of a pie carefully burned... I mean baked... in a...