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I run a food club at the high school where I teach. I wanted to show my students how much more there is to taste than Flaming Hot Cheetos. 2 years ago, we went to the Cheese Store of Silverlake. Kirsten taught us a class on...

currants/saffron rice) or the shirin polo (chicken with orange zest sauce and almonds). I also love the combination platter with 5 salads and appetizers which include the best stuffed grape leaves I ever had. Their website with...

Another rather stupendous dinner, courtesy of the new Lucques cookbook. Tonight it was the duck breasts with roasted grapes and creme fraiche. I basically did the recips, though I laid the sliced breasts atop some slow braised...

of fish eggs). the meatballs are a must have, and the different hot cheese dishes, which are flamed at the table, are also fun and tasty.

it hard on the small operators, it is because of the large corporate vineyards that there is a market for the small guy beyond the Bay Area and as a grower of grapes for Gallo. Shouldn’t this be on Not About Food?

, good, but nothing spectacular. but I had the most excellent salad of shaved brussel sprouts braised with bacon and maybe a little white wine? tossed with shaved asiago cheese and red flame grapes. add a few grinds of fresh...

That, or grape juice or V8.

For the lover of Pinot Grigio, I’d suggest heading over the border and finding them the best Alsatian Pinot Gris your dollar will buy. IMO the french do the grape better than the italians (dodging inevitable flames)... If...

SMSBBQ is only sirloin or tri tip. Do you mean ribs “cooked outdoors over a grill”? Alex’s in Pismo does ribs over an open flame but the pit is indoors. Jocko’s (Nipomo) has ribs done outdoors over oak for...

I almost disclaimed Molotof with "hint: its not flaming." Molotof is a portuguese desert made with egg whites, sort of a soft meringue, hinted with an orange liquor. Sunset’s is served as a pudding and basic, J+J’s...

can’t say that I’ve had any real dud, with the lone exception of Tarragon-Pickled Flame Grapes, which I found nasty. Maybe I just don’t like tarragon that much? They were really strong. I’ve never tried...

The owners of the Country Flame restaurant in New Orleans were from Cuba and made sweet meat empanadas that were excellent. They moved on from Country Flame to another place in the Quarter and we don’t get there often any...

with roasted grapes – two full slices of Serrano ham , not too thick and not too thin, cut just right and wrapped around a bunch of wrinkled, slightly dessicated red flame grapes. The salty and sweet notes were a fine match...

hung up our coats and waited a minute or two. Energetic young waitress arrives and seats us in a nice booth. Place is about 1/2 full at 7pm. We were not hugely hungry, so so ordered the following: stuff graped leaves (6 of them,...