Annie’s is nothing like the original Green Goddess. Here’s my recent post on the Green Goddess served at lunch time at a restaurant in Santa Rosa, California in Sonoma County’s wine country. Includes a link to...

While this may not be the “best” restaurant in the CH/Durham area, I believe it may fit your description quite nicely. Tahlula’s in Chapel Hill is a really fun Turkish place with a cool wine list and very tasty...

I have ever put in my mouth'. I have used Paan as a descriptor in my wine tasting notes most prominently featured in the Premier Crus and Grand Crus of Vosne Romanee. I have detected it to a lesser degree in the Pinots of...

in to the story of Judith. (I know the story but have never really gotten the connection. Cheese making you sleepy? Maybe she should have served him turkey with the wine. All that tryptophan flying around probably would have...

White. Sort of the inverse of the old line about "We only serve white wine when we run out of red, and we’ve never run out of red." Anyway — the Grill.

'd ordered extra sauce, they had forgotten the sauce altogether. Nice finish don’t you think? We choke down the dry, but passable pizza, our only solace was that it was free and we’d already finished the bottle of...

't an idiotic idea, in light of the fact that much of the value of kobe beef is textural? It seems to me that a burger is to great beef as fondue is to great stilton (spritzers to great wine?). Am I wrong? Can any discerning...

HillJ, your soup looks like just what I need. From what I remember last year, our food & beverage person made the punch; I’m pretty sure he’s doing that again.

golden raisins, jumbo black raisins, any other kind of raisins, and currents. I also like sun-dried tomatoes in judicious combination with other ingredients in sauces. I get organic raisins at my local health food store, and I...

The latest issue of Food & Wine (with which Gail, one of the judges, is affiliated) has a small article featuring a few chefs from the show. Set up as a cooking challenge, the teams are Elia & Sam vs. Cliff & Betty. Foreshadowing...

/range should be located close to the sink. (In my brother’s kitchen, the cooktop is located on the other side of the kitchen from the sink. This drives him crazy because he has to carry steaming pots of food across the...

Forgot to mention . . . Sonoma Chicken Coop on Market Street. You get on line, order, and wait for your number. Pasta, roast chicken, reasonable wine and beer selection. Every entree and maybe the salads comes with a little slice...

Specialties: Classic and signature tails featuring a wide range of tequilas, bourbons, whiskeys and rums. Large beer list with eight on tap, introducing Brooklyn Brewery’s Blue Smoke Original Ale. Thirty in bottles. Wine and...

You may want to try a savory bread pudding, this one with butternut squash from Food and Wine is fabulous and would be very nice with ham particularly because it will go well with sweet sauces or side dishes. Also think about...

Well, there’s the obvious, I suppose: grind 'em up in a food processor and make lots and lots of breadcrumbs to top casseroles and mix into meatloaf, etc. However, here’s a lovely breakfast recipe using...