places. - Have a picnic – you can pick up the makings at any number of alimentari (food markets) a salami or cheese and some bread, some fruit and wine or juice will set you up. Aliani on Ruga Rialto is one of the best...

Another vote for Fagor in the under-$100 category. All of their current models are stainless steel rather than aluminum (therefore fine for acidic foods), have aluminum/stainless sandwich bottoms, reach 15 psi, and allow...

rambling today or what?! You sound like a reasonably food-capable couple (you read this site, after all!) so good luck and happy Turkey!

'm relatively new to reds – so there’s a beginners fear of stores that seem highbrow. Like eating – I’ll take dive with amazing food any day of the week over a place where people rave about the service....

warranted “fat choi”, dried take, poached chicken, blanched shrimp (sort of the good luck foods). I really like S&S Pork so it was one of those special occasion dishes (and completely different from the stuff...

Running out of storage space after this Christmas... Vacuum sealer Kitchenaid 3 cup food processor Blender (burnt mine out weeks ago doing celeriac puree!) 11" electric griddle (no idea what I’m gonna do with this) Stick blender...

including storage and offices) near me. The Northern Virginia suburbs of D. C. are already home to Whole Foods, Harris Teeter, Sutton Place and local markets such as Giant, Safeway, etc. with Dean and Deluca in Washington. Parts...

In today’s NY Times, there was an article on recipe deal breakers. That got me thinking... do Chowhounds have deal breakers? Maybe not even just recipe deal breakers but about food in general? I guess apart from not have...

Hhmmm... do they not have snickerdoodles in Canada?! That’s just sad! Here’s an example recipe: http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,,FOOD_9936_18391,00.html They’re what I make when I don’t...

% of the vendors are still at the market and not a lot changes on the farm. http://www.saturdaymarket.com/index.html I would LOVE to organize a trip to the market and introduce people who appreciate food my favorite foods and...

. We got a sliver of Salers de Burons – hard like a parmigiano with an addictive acidic tinge. PLEASE, no Coop haters or drama — just food, what YOUR latest find is . . .

, 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...

- this is universal, and not limited to the world of food, or wine. The object of this contact is to sell more advertising. If a local mag is doing a feature on my photography, I get calls a few months out, asking if I’d...

that places price their chocolates this way; that’s just marketing. What I STRONGLY object to is that some places actually refuse to tell you how many pieces are in a pound. Product weight is basic information, and is how...

bad that I fast at sea and binge in port. To prevent illness the kitchen uses so many food sanitizing chemicals that the food makes you ill. Ugh... I am jealous of all you folks who ate an edible, let alone tasty meal last night....