potatoes and uses her mixer and the potatoes get so rubbery that you have to be careful of the rubber-band snapping when you try to pry loose a forkful. But... Her husband loves them, so she doesn’t use the potato ricer I...

The “celebrity” sous chefs may have gotten their say at the dinner table — they did make some comments related to their time working with the contestants, and I’m sure we didn’t see it all.

Reservations". Hey, who else would even think about getting Marky Ramone to eat dinner with him? He’s bad boy sexy, he does know how to cook (despite other posts to the contrary) and I’d certainly like to hang out...

think of ourselves), and because meat of all kinds is so readily available to us, I think we tend to think of the human diet as meat heavy. When we pick up books about prehistory, chances are there are tales of hunters banding...

of Christmas dinner, keeping the secret from the U.S. boy). I have a bias having spent grade 3-grade 12 learning German in school in Chicago. Even dubbed with a German name “Eva.” Had a “Tante Marianne”...

he and Mike made for the Social whatever dinner, except no deep fried crab on top and he used noodly things instead of actual rice, but it was another little dish of saffrony fishness. Course 3: Marcel: Salmon and beets. Yes,...

He’s a musician? What’s he play? Somebody told me the other night that they’d seen Daniel Patterson playing keyboards in a band at some bar in the Mission District.

was not the anomaly, and there were no roving bands of youths trying out for the Bridgeport community theater production of West Side Story. By the way, there is a Police station being constructed directly across the street from...

Brewery ————————— 617 4th Street Eureka, CA 707-445-4480 http://www.lostcoast.com/ Due to a late departure from San Francisco, we found ourselves having a late dinner at a half full...

that?) with complacency, internal strife or turnover. Then it gets back on track again. I remember having dinner at a top-rated, big city place where the owner was on a long honeymoon overseas; I thought it was nowhere near my...

Whenever I hear someone go on about authenticity in food, I’m reminded of a passage in Calvin Trillin’s AMERICAN FRIED where he’s explaining at length about how the gazpacho he’s eating at a dinner party...

I’m somewhat surprised that this posting inspired such intense responses. It just doesn’t seem like that big of a deal to me, but obviously it does with many Posters. Last night, we went out for a quick dinner at a...

pancakes for breakfast lunch and dinner, all different kinds with bananas, blueberries, white flour, whole wheat flour, flax, even tried butternut squash

. But just recently at my birthday dinner in San Francisco our waiter saw that I’d just been given a copy of the Top Chef cookbook and remarked that he’d worked briefly at Fleur de Lys and that his time there had...

(!) years ago????), we had the Jewel Tea guy who delivered spices, seasonings, etc. We still have the Schwans truck that comes around – it was great while I was going through radiation – I think there might have been...