invention, I tried cooking peas in one. Imagine, if you can, the sight of peas that have shot out of the cooker onto the walls and ceiling of the kitchen. It made for an interesting design but a huge mess to clean up!

not do it like Project Runway when all of a sudden they have to design another dress. They could have at the last minute add another course or say they have to come up with a tail! That would have been fun. Or maybe say they have...

Went to the opening of the newest Whole Foods store in Tustin, California. This was after the “grand opening” and free samples. My wife and I found the store crowded, loud and not very efficiently organized, whether...

Did anyone else think that Top Chef and Project Runway are colliding again? (Rami designing for Padma?) ;-)

, design your own two dishes with no influence from anyone, be in a restaurant setting, just showing what they can do. Fun episode.

@ lunch. food: 8 | ambiance: 10 | service: 10 first off, the canopy of bushes you walk under to enter are just spectacular. once inside, i think the ambiance is even better. i think it’s a really beautifully designed...

proportions, i’d say it is a combination of living in a world of plenty with bodies designed by millions of years of scarcity, and marketing by businesses concerned with profit, not health. and consumer ignorance. which is...

TKS. Might try something like that. I didn’t want to risk my Iittala wonder pot—the magnificent one designed by Timo Sarpanava, which has just gone (expensiverly) back into production after a long and lamented time...

I think one really great thing about Cochon is that you can have a very small or very large meal and it’s not awkward if you just order a few small plates, because their menu is designed to be flexible around what the...

on the weekends and supply to Dean & Deluca, as well as higher-end restaurants and hotels in DC and NY. You can see the variety available and order online at: ChocolateByCacao.com. (Don’t hold the website design against them...

, which comes in several varieties, including guacamole and French onion. These products are designed to have the flavor of guacamole and onion, and the ingredients for all Kraft Dips are clearly listed on the label. However, to...

on the bottom, you know, where it bumps up into the bowl instead of having a flat bottom like every other mixing bowl in the world. Is there some point to that design? I find it funny that whenever I mention that I hate my mixer,...

, as if there were Spike rules about not wearing a hat through a doorway. Does Spike know Jeffrey from Project Runway? Jeffrey has said that he had a pre-throught-out persona defined by clothes and actions and designs. I wonder...

It does come down to the design of the check stands. I once did some work related to grocery stores and you’d semi-amazed at many types of check stand set-up there are. The big industrial ones can take up a lot of room. The...

Alto 650-325-2696 This new 48-seat, up-market sister to Naomi is the most attractive sushiya on the Peninsula, bar none. The room appears quite deliberately designed as a clone of the prototypical big-city , white-tablecloth sushi...