chewy red wines. Vintage Ports also benefit from aging. The wines that classically benefit from aging are red wines from Bordeaux and Burgundy, and the more complex reds from California. Very few dry white wines improve with age

Okay I pride myself on being a fairly good cook, but I have a shameful confession: I suck at desserts. Somehow most sweets just involve precision and chemistry to prepare and I am more of a throw stuff together without measuring...

we were in France, where cheese is revered. The standout was a dry goat cheese that felt earthy, almost like clay in the mouth. To our delight, we were given a glass of fruity syrah, a St. Joseph, to compliment the cheese. Good...

as well as the burger joint burgers- the “shake sauce” doesn’t come through at all- I added some mustard. The milkshake (I made up chocoalte caramel) was delicious but not so thick. This was a good $11 lunch, and...

, and way too good to share!

Yep, sometimes you do not make the same profit on everything you sell. The Wine bars that charge a corkage on their own product and pissoff good customers are simply stupid. They are making money on the wine they sell, the folks...

, and I found his Kit Kat knock off was awfully good. Having experienced that, I am thinking of Citronelle’s as less of a “must have,” and am leaning towards breakfast for dessert. Great description, bilrus! Do...

-sipping headache sufferers also get headaches when they ingest other foods with high levels of sulfites (certain "baked goods, soup mixes, jams, canned vegetables, pickled foods, gravies, dried fruit, potato chips, trail mix,...

. This effectively reduces the size and prevents the meat from drying out.

A recent disaster, making sole armandine – my significant other used Trader Joe’s Almond Butter for the sauce – results, a glooey inedible mess. We had a good laugh.

see today but with shelves of live coals which needed to be constantly tended. They were really good! Those were the days, sleeping in the Roman crypts in the side of the mountain at Matala on the south coast of Crete. I went...

good point, that I failed to make, Sam... All out hunting and fishing is done for the table, NOT for sport. We closely observe bag limits (cos WHEN not IF, the Fisheries and Wildlife Dept board your boat and you’re over they...

people thought it was a good idea.

, oats or barley, and later maize, or with stale bread — bread was therefore much more important stale than fresh) and ale. Supplemented with mostly cured or dried pieces of flesh. (The image of alebread in Babette’s...

I have a small Perfex pepper grinder I have been known to stash in my purse and take along. I prefer good tellicherry pepper and don’t like the twee performance of someone standing over me with a grinder out sized or not...