://www.foodandwine.com/invoke.cfm?objectID=E60CB6DB-9D71-11D5-826A0002B3309983&method=display Third, there is an attention to detail in Gras’ cuisine that I have thus far found to be appealing. An attention to small things...

stores should steer you to the appropriate forums. Tell them as many details as you can, and they’ll jump on it like flies just like we chowhounds do about food. The main reasons for butcher block being used are: If...

have yet to have really good broth and noodles here in DC. I really question if they are really cooking the broth properly and slowly, I do think the places here cheat on this crucial factor.

at each other makes Carla’s calm seem even more crucial to success in the final. If she can just stay above the fray...

The salt and press step is crucial and it’s what cooks so often fail to do. You have to really slather on the salt and then press the bejeezus out of the slices. If you don’t do this, the eggplant can be intolerably...

of the new site What you’re describing sounds like a bug, so please post to the Problems board with as much detail as possible. Thanks.

that is currently undetectable so that it looks to them just like natural reproduction, but in fact leaves out some crucial unknown that is different from natural reproduction. Humans make mistakes, and this is a fairly new...

. The devil’s in the details, and that’s where we often find out a step is particularly time-consuming, or there’s a new technique we’ve not tried, or that something must be prepared in advance (makes me...

I just read, for the first time, a Cook’s Illustrated magazine. I enjoyed the detailed explanations, which may make the difference between a great and sort of okay dish. It also seems to try to use practical ingredients....

't appreciate how crucial it is to salt a dish properly. but i think they might have made a different decision had she not compeltely omitted salt from her quickfire pizza. she probably wouldn’t have made it much farther in...

filler, can be chopped large or small depending on cooking time), green bell pepper (foundation) or red (great for color and sweeter, shorter cooking time, celery. Crucial — garlic. Protein — buy a tube of ground beef...

't remember all the details) and fork over a little dough, and they shuttle you from venue to venue. Think about it, we could charter a bus, or just organize a caravan of cars, bikes, horses, what ever, and do the great Roving...