-so-sophisticated, just because you've made something with a fancy-ass French name. — Paul

This is a good question but I don’t know that you’ll be able to find a specific answer. Just like we have regional foods and flavors so does Mexico. Sonoran Mexican food tastes different than other regions I've...

– a collapsible popsicle stick. I was really anticipating this as a sweet-tart refresher, but alas, it was sweet, tart, and salted. I left it melting on my plate, as did the other diners after a few curious licks. It...

, but not a steady diet of it). It is always the same chain/delivery quality. When the group is at my house, I cook a nice meal and leave them to eat alone in the kitchen while DH and I move to another room. Am I the only parent...

Yeah, you should consider the “food miles” (a term I've heard more often in England but am starting to hear more now in the States, meaning the distance your food has been shipped). Of course it really depends on why...

piece of pizza in four months. We have been on diets that have actually been quite successful. Avignon is interesting and I’m sure that there are some great restaurants here, but we had places to go and more things to see....

of necessity (most Mexicans aren’t part of the modern economy with the biweekly paychecks... instead they earn a little money each day and invest in food items as soon as its earned)... some out of conviction (even in L.A....

. i think he made churros once, also at casa mono (or bar jamon one of those) and i feel like he made a couple other dishes (maybe one with quail or sweetbreads or something) i've already had at casa mono. isnt this supposed to...

I've been given and purchased top quality maple syrup. I keep it on hand for guests. Lovely, but to my taste, lacking, in depth and nuance. Probably the same reason why I use demerrara sugar in my coffee. I don’t buy Aunt...

Not sure why we've never before covered this subject. I have, over the years, met an enormous number of physically disabled chowhounds who use ingenuity and drive (the same qualities that make them chowhounds to begin with!) to...

I've noticed a disturbing trend on the home cooking board. When people discuss gnocchi, they pay attention to the quality of the ricotta. Much attention is paid to the subtleties of roasting chickens. Generally, people are...