expectations and miscommunications. The shame here is that it caused your evening out with your coworkers and friends, to end on a bad note.

The guy isn’t very smart to make sweeping generalizations based on one restaurant. An ex co-worker from Hong Kong thought a Mandarin restuarant in Mexico City could vie for best of in the Western Hemisphere.... assuming...

a lot of criticism and ridicule from some co-workers who didn’t understand the concept. They tagged it the “high fat” diet. This was not the case at all. While you are allowed to eat foods that low fat diets...

Back a few years ago (when my company was still open and before most of my beer drinking co-workers were transferred all over the country), I picked up a magnum bottle of Hair of the Dog- Fred. Now, when I go through my beer...

I worked at a Chili’s when I first started serving, and we were required to know the food, what ingredients were in each dish and how they were prepared, as well as the drinks. I don’t know if all my coworkers had...

as the reviewer to the food sampled. That isn’t as food snobby as it might sound ... I worked for years in the area, did a lot of business lunches with coworkers and getting people away from Applebee’s was a...

(‘jiao cai’ in Mandarin) and use it instead of scallions. The garlic chive was given to me by a Taiwanese coworker more than 30 years ago and it survives MidAtlantic state winters. I use extremely hot chiles like Red...

One of my co-workers ordered the special at lunch time at a downtown NYC restaurant without asking for the price. The special turned out ot be twice as much then the most expensive item on the menu ($75.00 for the lobster...

coworkers/apprentices who have made it in a way tourist destinations just to witness the bullying (or be builled). In addition to pre-cut fish for nigiri, I’ve also read there isn’t much in the way of utilizing...

I don’t like anyone else in my kitchen. A few years back, this fact came up in a conversation with a co-worker who was from Shanghai. He laughed and told me, “In China we say 'There is only one tiger to a...

A friend and his family played host to a former co-worker's teenage daughter for a summer, she is from the UK. She became obsessed with just how large the portions were and for the first week kept saying how she can feed her...

in the 1980s and got to sample a lot of regional cusine as well as the beginnings of nouvelle cuisine. I am still lliving in LA & exploit friends and coworkers who come from countries around the world. We had lots of pot lucks at...

about people (something corporate America keeps missing the mark on), and they have a good time talking story with their co-workers. You and I may not think they are doing their job well, we might even question they are doing...

't something about which your neighbors and co-workers will necessarily be knowledgeable. Finally, you have to be careful in the downtowns as many of those restaurants are geared more towards business entertaining, and...

of us that buy and serve Yellowtail do it because we’re on a budget or don’t want to spend more than $10 a bottle for a party and not because of any disillusions about it being a great wine. Now if I was going to say...