of places I could get it done better. Now it seems like no one around me can put together even the simplest thing, so I’ve been learning to do it myself. It’s really fun, it saves money, and this way I know exactly...

Last spring Jim and Bettie Hall bought The General’s Daughter hiring Chef Preston Dishman. Dishman’s food reminds me very much of the young Bradley Ogden when he was still in the kitchen at Lark Creek. Owners and chef...

I love everything at le Pain du Jour. Oddly enough, (I say oddly, because there is not much good food to be had in the Palisades) a la tart makes an excellent pain du chocolat

and it was fine, nothing that blew me out of the water but fine. Jimmy’s Steer House: http://www.jimmyssteerhouse.net/ I’ve actually had some decent meals there although I know it has it’s detractors on this...

Annabelle’s is in a centuries-old building in downtown Portsmouth across from the river and the big red tugboats. Lago’s is down Rt. 1 several miles on the highway-it’s nice enough but unless you’re driving...

where the meal was exactly like the posts about the restaurant, full of tourists but very good food (the suckling pig and the meringue iced cake come to mind). Tue: We set up a successful routine in Madrid to drop off the phone...

Someone on the Not about Food board wanted biscuit recipes. I have two to share. Dead easy :-) Mom’s Biscuits 2 cups flour 4 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 1/4 to 1/2 cup butter, depending on how you feel :-) Mix the dry...

intoducing the reader to less common ingredients. His “Blue Ginger” is also a great book, but I don’t think it would suit your purpose as well.

the West Coast and a cooker of much Asian food) once remarked, "Oh, you’re making sticky rice" when I did it the package-direction way.

the twinkling lights or lamps scattered around the room. It is hard to tell the plants decorating the room are artificial. The plates were the type your grandmother might have, those plates that look like blue willow plates but...

up his "Top of the food chain" product list (and boy, is that a disaster...) Great home-made salad dressings are so easy that you can make most of them in the time it takes to take the bottle out of the fridge and shake it up. Ok,...

I very much enjoyed his fiction mystery called A Bone in the Throat. Our hero is a sous chef involved with the mob. Lots of blood and gore with some mouth-watering asides about food. p.

should give them a try yourself—otherwise your Chowhound status may be questionable.

, but I also need the chicken. Hence, my question. I’m addicted to chicken and rice, especially after my animal protein drought. Disclaimer: I know this is not EXACTLY hainan chicken rice, but its close enough. PPS: Singapore...

it back, and he decided to have the same thing I was having. Our server was a delight – we saw her standing near the food station, waiting to bring his lunch at the exact second it was ready, so he wouldn’t have to wait...