after ordering a cheeseburger and fries, he left the restaurant. Thanks for the good press. He returns east tomorrow and will perform the Caroline1 test on his frozen raviolis with some homemade Rao’s sauce.

oops, i should have included that! 244 N Beverly Drive (Just North of Wilshire, before Dayton Way on the east side of the street) Open 10-10p Sun-Thur 10-11p on Fri/Sat 310.274.2435

My best advice is to drive out to the boonies. I drove deep into Solano County last weekend and got a flat of divine peaches for five bucks. Made peach jam, peach ice cream, and this weekend will make peach pie. Look for decrepit...

in the Deep South. Sundays are days for loving your family (and the Lawd) and most people do not want to be lovin' the barbecue pit beginning at 4 in the morning. As most Southern states put county names on their license plates,...

right. All the toro you can eat. Heaven. Then there was all the cooked food, which included gyoza, shumai, yakitori, ika salad, some thing which I don’t know the name of but was like a fried ball of something with crispy...

. Steel Pig: I liked the sides. The ribs were not tender or very smoky when I tried them. Pig Wings are good. That’s smoked chicken that are then fried. You get six for about $4.50 and that means 6 actual wings as in 3 parts...

I always find that when you stir fry with whole dried chiles and then remove them they provide flavor but very little heat. I usually break them in half and dump out the seeds then crush up a little bit more so you can actually...

chips, frozen Serenada chicken entree (to die for, really), Trader Giotto’s extra virgin olive oil, canola oil, grapeseed oil for frying, 12-grain mini-crackers, tortilla chips, whole wheat couscous, vanilla extract,...

. Jill, you will love Hurley’s. The dining room is small and intimate, doting service, I enjoyed my Muscovie duck breast with the garlic cottage fries very much and they make a really nice heirloom cucumber salad that was...

, they are barely able to keep it in stock. It blows off the shelves. In an identically outfitted store in a similar mall, they can’t give it away, even at a deep discount. Nobody wants it at any price. The consumer base can...

's counting the “5 wins” from. Episode 1: Anything You Can Cook, I Can Cook Better Quickfire Challenge: Create a signature deep dish pizza. Rocco DiSpirito and Padma Lakshmi served as Quickfire judges. Prize: Immunity...

I don’t think there are any places here that would get michelin 3 or two star ratings. A three star place is innovative, mindful of classical haute-cuisine tradition, gracious, beautifully appointed, FORMAL, bearing a deep...

fried shrimp that I have ever experienced was from a tiny dive, with a big hole in the roof. There was only counter service and I usually took the food out, as the place was just not where you’d want to spend an hour. It even had...

pleasant and hardworking family operation (mostly mom) with very tasty fare, particularly the crispily fried cinnamon rolls (please don’t take the last one!) and apple fritters.

are so devoted to trying to reproduce it, even though deep down we may know it’s not fully possible to do so. Plus, even pretty good NC BBQ is pretty damn good.