enables me to also partake in one of my other loves, that of food from different places, from the best restaurants to the most humble bistros. Hopefully these posts will not bore you. Arrived Barcelona and drove up to the French...

Don’t know how the quality is, but you can buy it in bulk at Canton Foods on Alameda near the 10.

is to drink a HUGE glass of ice water. I hate water, but ice cold water is more palatable to me, especially with liberal lemon added. Another thing that works for me is to have the crunch I crave with something spicy. If your...

LA to have an off menu menu at a fast food joint?

We are coming up to NYC from Washington D.C area with three adults and three young children (all 6 or younger). Any brilliant ideas for lunches and brunches especially. We want chowish food but are realistic about the options...

't eat your food what would you think?? :-)

assumed, is not obligatory. Personally, I appreciate that the food service industry is physically demanding and mentally stressful . I would always factor the tip into my budget. If funds were an issue and I wanted to dine out, or...

it more of a familiar food. of course, now, kids don’t even know that corn grows on cobs & would think cooking corn in milk strange.

Pretty much the entire dim sum menu rocks as there are NO Americanized dishes or “the usual suspects” type dishes on the dim sum menu. Other then these few items there is almost nothing to eat at Shangri-La ;-)

the chill as an excuse to finally follow Grandma Gertrude’s “rolled cabbage” recipe to the letter. For years I’ve been winging it pretty successfully based on memory alone, but recently my mom gave me...

part company, I fear. There’s a bleak extreme on my spectrum of edible appreciation: I actually like hippy vegetarian whole grain food. I like tofu. I use a steamer. I can dig unseasoned millet stews. Mind you, I don’t...

. I did find them packed in water in a jar. Are the jarred ones ok to use? Where could i get fresh or frozen ones on Long Island (Trader Joes, Whole Foods, and Kings are all close to me)? Any recipes would also be appreciated....

, and honey, plus baking soda and baking powder (no nuts). They turned out good but not great – I doubled the spices but they are still not very spicy – Czechs just kind of love bland food, I guess. (They do smell...

I’ve been cruising the Eisenhower Expressway (290) since just about the Eisenhower Administration, and I don’t remember ever seeing much in the way of food stops along that relatively barren route. So it was with some...

Ihave lived here for 18 years and am almost invariably disappointed in the quality of food here. The so-called “great” restaurants are often wildly overpriced, snobby, and with food that looks like art, but tastes...