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Top Chef- right now
Well, that was dull. No wit, no charm, no personality. Exactly how he came off on the show. For me anyway.
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When you cook, what things do you NEVER compromise on?
An excellent, sharp set of knives. Nothing can take the fun out of cooking like a dull knife.
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The "new" Bon Appetit (magazine)
of interesting or relevant content is upsetting. I assumed that it was just the dull, old January issue type thing, but now that I’m hearing you all say that the February issue is no imporvement (I still haven’t...
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Kitchen Disasters
I had just finished a 12 week cooking class at The China Instiute with Floence Lin. She warned us not to try cooking a 7 course dinner the first time out. So ofcourse that’s exactly what I did. Fortified by alcahol my...
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Overrated disappointments
Taste varies but nothing I had at Aziza could reasonably have been described as bland. tails can dull your palate.
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Why do people feel like they need to eat on an airplane?
and boredom. flying can be very dull.
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nyc with kids
serves up magicians and balloon artists on Saturday and Sunday afternoons and they hold story time on Saturdays at noon. (The crayons on the table will seem pretty dull in comparison.) High chairs, booster seats, and a changing...
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Your experiences with obligatory eating? Eating 20 guinea pigs in Peru
Yeah – I guess I can understand the business/social side of this. Vendors taking me to Peter Lugers or to an Izakaya in NYC is a situation I never considered an obligation – no matter how dull and uninteresting they...
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Boston chefs bitter about those jerks on Chowhound
inappropriate. There are knee-jerk contrarians. There are antelope-herds of me-toos. There are people who had one dull meal at a place in its earliest days and continue to bear a grudge against the restaurant for years. And I...
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Your favorite resturant in Champaign-Urbana, IL and why
flashbacks to the last conference I went to... It was highly recommended by several people I usually trust, but I must conclude that their tastebuds have been dulled by too many years in C-U. Next time I want to drop $35 on...
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Wood countertops and This Old House
to be the accelerated-growth plantation kind that’s almost entirely sapwood: pale and dull, no noticable grain, won’t take a polish, unpleasant to the touch, lacking both the rich color of old forest teak and the oils...
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french laundry reservations
that right now my own inclination is similar, though time has a way of dulling the more unpleasant aspects of an experience and enhancing the nicer ones. Id say Im satisfied now that I know what Thomas Keller has to...
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The greatest pie of my life: Toni Marie's (plus gen'l bakery thoughts)
a pretty standard, dull product. Likewise, that superior, no-shortcuts pie, which must be out there somewhere, has proven elusive. The key word is “odds”— I’ve tried a lot of them with a fairly low rate of...
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Lupa - Great Pasta/Questionable policies??
as well, and I cope. If I gotta ruin my day and evening with caring about every nasty waitress that comes my way, I might as well stay home and crack open a can of Alpo and eat it with a dull spoon. Hey, at least it’s...
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TC #5 The Beatdown
that us fans could create brackets and bet on! C’mon, Judge Tom C. — Bland food is not nearly as big a sin as scaly fish. That’s why they put salt on the table, for cripes sake. Underseasoned carpaccio may be...
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