and drinking cheap beer, then pass out and remember a truly good time. Bigger parties weren’t meant to be had at restaurants, unless there’s an expense account or a really rich person. Tell your friends that if they...

restaurants. 2) I am very concerned about organic ingredients, local-grown ingredients, sustainably-grown and traditionally-made (raw milk cheeses, grass-fed meat) ingredients. By investing more in home cooking, I can support...

Cashchik’s wonderful post “What brought you to Chowdom?” got me thinking. Have you ever gotten in trouble for being a Chowhound? I’m specifically thinking of the cultural clash between a chowhound and...

is that it allows the interior to cook much faster. So I wouldn’t have to worry about having a burned wrapper and semi-raw meat interior! I could totally make this dish and not worry. I missed not having a demo last year and...

hungry and perplexed)...The chef in question, by the way, was Jean George when he first began doing his thing at the old Lafayette...This type of presentation has become rampant in the small plate culinary culture that has been...

be most convenient. I looked at Victory’s Banner but decided we just can’t live without meat, especially since the wife can’t eat wheat or milk and can’t make it on eggs alone. Plus I’ll sleep better...

and variety of food stuffs, not to mention different culture and immigration patterns, the food is supposed to be exactly the same as it is in the Tri-State area. It’s rather disappointing to me that people who...

. This resulted in an astounding series of courses. One of them was the lobster, which appeared to be dead, severed in two, with the tail meat chunked and served inside the tail as sashimi. It was incredible — salty and...

Regarding smelly foods: I adore eating pungent, spicy foods, having come from a culture that seems to specialize in them. But PLEASE realize that being bothered by strong-smelling food on a flight is not a choice. My late husband...

i don’t think that working within a cultural idiom, like spanish cuisine, is necessarily a hindrance. i get what people are saying, but i don’t think that it’s a fault to know and cook in an ethnically distinct...

and 8th selling homemade tamales (with and without meat) as well as atole. I’ve only spoken with them in Spanish, but they may speak english. Give it a try (Tamales are $1 each, the atole, sweet hot corn drink, also $1 and...

to play up to their restaurant’s theme (like “nibbly dingo bites” or “guns of provolone”) where the servers load their suspenders with zany pins and buttons. If you see these wailing walls of pop...

Foods. Goodbye to the absence of cheese and good meat. Goodbye to Regina Bakery with its four-day old cookies and the red cat shedding in the corner. Farewell and best wishes to Al Di La, to Olive Vine (though I’d spring for...

up. Remember the dry pork loin on the “bbq” challenge? Everybody knows that pork loin (grown in the US) is so lean that extraordinary measures must be taken to keep it from drying out. It’s just about the worst...

Mountainside NJ early 60’s we purchased milk, eggs, cream and butter on a weekly basis. We also bought our first freezer from an appliance salesmen where they fill your 500.00 freezer with meat. Anyone else? Bread man came...