experienced in the art of fine dining. Needless to say, I was also very nervous. I am seated at a table with an assortment of food writers, foodies, and my boss. I take the first cut of my meat and push too hard. Half the meat...

market. The Wed market probably beats out the Hollywood Sunday market because it has fewer prepared food vendors and craft vendors and more farmers. For what it’s worth, I’ve found the prices at the BH market to be a...

My bourbon of choice is Makers with a spash of water and when i was younger Wild Turkey101 was my poison. One thing to note is that if you drink with carbonated mixes like ginger ale, you will get tipsy quicker as the sugar and...

Just wanted to add my thanks to Joe for planning such a wonderful evening. The food was wonderful (my favorite was the squab pasta), the company delightful, and the evening an unmitigated success! Jen

to “Have a glass, relax.” even after numerous denials? And don’t give me that look or act to be personally insulted when I do. You would think adults listen? Do I have to take a glass, be evidently poisoned to...

Depends on your poison. I prefer the Small Batch brands. Link below. Basil Hayden and a shot of water on the rocks is heaven. Link: http://www.smallbatch.com/

This is a tough one. Either Kawahagi (filefish) with raw liver on top. Distant cousin to fugu (blowfish) but non poisonous, or kinmedai (alfosino and a type of snapper) belly cut with the skin on.

What are some of the food related things that your mom did that drove you nuts? My mom for example would always: store the peanut butter in the fridge. Being an Italian immigrant, she put parsley and garlic in every amercian dish we...

to make! That was HER food, because it certainly was me asking her how she wanted to do this and that while she was busy picking crab the entire time and making a souffle that didn’t rise! I am done with TC. I did not influence...

I would like to save a little money by making some kind of edible to give as Christmas/holiday gifts. I am the proverbial awful cook — can’t even make toast without burning it. Is there such a thing as a unbelievably...

"how about garbage compactors?" Needless and useless is also what I thought about trash compactors until I built a house on a hillside. Now, I love the blasted thing for all the trips up to the trashcan it saves. One caveat:...

I’m researching recipes for food from around the world shaped in balls — meatballs, matzoh balls, cheese balls, rum balls, tartufo, etc... So whip out your balls, so to speak, and let me know what you got!

sauce with ginger and persimmons and god knows what else...but simple , fresh cranberry sauce made recently from fresh cranberries. Not only a large percentage of my extended family, but my own husband, known to have decent taste...

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...

clearly, one man’s pizza is another man’s poison. BUT, on the other hand as a 10-year New Yorker and a 14-year New Havener I’ve spent a lot of my life in places where competition between a large population of...