I need a little help here...hope you Chowhounders can give me some!! I need to put together a piece on Thanksgiving food (Hannukah food, Easter food, Christmas food, Family Holiday foods all apply here) that is traditional to your...

up his own restaurant in San Mateo aptly named Chef Wai where he is owner and executive chef, replacing the now defunct Iron Chef across from Draegers (which was not a great place to begin with). Cantonese food fans already know...

Dear Stonetta— Can’t help asking if that is Stonetta as in Stonetta Dairy. Gee, I miss the Bay Area. If you are there, look for Giusto’s flour. It is milled to the trade in South San Francisco, but is available...

Being an elderly cook whose spouse absolutely requires tomatoes and beans in her chili (she considers perfect chili to be a bean dish with meat in it), I will take issue with your “despicable.” What I choose to...

always complains about poor service, but she looks down on anyone “serving” her and god forbid they are a person of color and sits there with her lips pursed, etc. She’s also a lousy tipper and a general pain in...

Here’s the link to it...it makes a huge cake and I always use three 9" pans, not about to order 10" ones... http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/101275

on the Food Channel once did a show about all the different brands of dry pasta and the only ones even under consideraion for best were from Italy, so this lets out Ronzoni. I could research this information but to the best of my...

competition, not just make dishes you’ve been cooking for a few years at a restaurant. honestly, i would never go to ilan’s restaurant if i could get the same food but exceptionally done by andy nusser at casa mono.

and noodles, there weren’t other solids in the soup. The patties really could have been formed out of anything. The texture was sort of like crumbled soft tofu, and most of it was tofu colored with green vegetabls specs. It...

, but the rest of the meal was (how do you say?) a bit uncomfortable. So my question is, who decides that a restaurant’s portion size is the “correct” amount of food for all people? (As an aside, friend is...

. I also have a weird fondness for the fakey tasting frosting they use at BR, especially the day glo colors. Bizarre, it tastes horrible and I love it.

neighborhoods, that this one is incredibly lacking in color (in every sense) and character. At least it’s kinda convenient to get out of.

to get around and about? Or to get food sent in? Or whatever needs to be done to include a goodly amount of deliciousness in your life. We have a strict rule against using multiple nametags, but I’ll suspend it for this one...

things to show me. A discussion on tlayudas (typical street food in Oaxaca, vendors shout “tlayuda! tlayuda!” everywhere one goes) has her bringing out these refrigerated pre-hand-patted tortillas which are about the...

it tends to bubble over with juice. Bake in hot oven 425F 50-60 minutes, or until crust is browned and apples are tender. I use an egg wash when there are 10 minutes left to go, just to get a richer color to the crust. Enjoy....