Ham in Coca-Cola. Nigella Lawson’s recipe is fabulous. Also, jello shots, of course. (homemade gelatin shots made with muscat wine or specialty liquors?)

Listen, when I have a middle eastern food jones I go to my “old faithful” place, Cousin’s, on Broadway just north of Diversey. The calamari is awesome, the Ezme is very awesome, the kababs are great...You can...

the corporate food route seems a shame when there are so many independent places. We thrive when there is diversity in food and not just chains so sure Starbucks has its place and the big steak chains have their place and Bucca...

and also even challahs filled with dried fruits. You have to give them credit for that. It’s hard to even find challahs at all in SF, let alone specialty challahs. Likewise the extrememly generous selection of rye breads:...

Maybe this is the food snob in me but I favor real Normandy butter. The cows that give the milk naturally graze in the fields and eat only grass. Just bought some new stuff yesterday. Will try it and report.

supermarkets like Mollie Stone, Andronico’s and Whole Foods are usually kind of boring. And forget about Safeways and Albertsons: cardboard. Any ideas?

I ordered online through the Spice House as part of a larger order, but I think a few of the international/specialty food shops in my town sell it. http://www.thespicehouse.com/spices/pomegranate-molasses

quickfire and great Elimination. If she would have called it Poulet slightly braised in red wine she wins. So she lost for semantics versus technique. They loved her food and her presentation. And she’s a nice person, constantly...

for the smoked fish and they never have it, turned into a sort of game for me, every 3rd time I ask Bean curd skin with mushroom Salt watered duck bean curd skin chicken with wine sauce cold chicken stir fried bean sprouts Soups little...

, could feed the starving masses. All of that said, your post contained more useful information than a dozen fluff articles about beef in food and wine or lifestyle magazines. Thanks. I might even try grass-fed beef again.

purple goddess, you’re great! Just read your thing about the fois gras too, you keep making me laugh. I’d share some burnt bubble tortillas and naan and fois gras if I knew you could hook me up with some 9th Island...

and conventionality trying to disguise itself under a tame veneer of “difference”. And this is why the discourse on food and wine in this city is so abysmal. Why serve up confirmity on a silver platter? Why be...

, Yum Thai barely fills its small dining room. We all need to get a bit of RST in us and spread the word that real, authentic, affordable, and entirely satisfying Thai food exists in places not related to Arun’s. VI

of an Asian food store on Hwy 183. He didn’t know anything about it, except that Chinese grad students he knew kept talking about it. Ok, then I sent him my long report on Sichuan Cuisine in Houston, and immediately...

that places price their chocolates this way; that’s just marketing. What I STRONGLY object to is that some places actually refuse to tell you how many pieces are in a pound. Product weight is basic information, and is how...