. Cleaner aguardiente, the grape spirits used for fortification, could be procured after the government monopoly was abolished in 1990. Many of these changes were made possible by the growth in port sales in the US. Ten years ago...

"Tipping for delivery should be utterly optional." The US government doesn’t think so. Delivery people are taxed on estimated tips, just like waitstaff are.

will be a gray mar that will bother you forever too. The government actually does some useful things for us; one really good thing is the Forest Product Laboratory Technical Report series. Here is, in dense format, everything there...

wheat or corn, and thus many governments are looking into devoting resources to growing potatoes as a way to address the rising cost of food. Here’s a link to the article:...

, Capeado (in tempura batter) etc., She also prepared her own Mayonaisse (which she learned how to make in a government funded Home Economics course)... and served it with lightly poached vegetables like Aparagus, Artichokes,...

over the Soviet Union. Sure as hell ruined his day, let me tell you! Then there was a coup overthrowing the Turkish Government our last year there. It was a lot scarier for my mother reading about all of it in the San Diego...

management system. The certificate has been awarded to the Government of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands." "The MSC is an international, nonprofit organization dedicated to creating sustainable fisheries around the...

of the government subsidies for cheap food production went to more of the sustainable food producers? I am hoping that this will happen as more people start to demand local, sustainable food, and more food producers respond to...

with identical F&E logos is a little, well, Orwellian. Makes their packages look like government issue rations. Soylent Green, anyone?

time you ever waited on a line anywhere for anything would mean that prices should rise. i understand that many chowhounders have a basic understanding of the economic theory behind pricing. but no market ever functions perfectly...

via GPS and OnStar, radio signals from Fort Collins governing other clocks and watches, computers routinely synchronizing with Internet-based time servers, etc. All of these should be within a few seconds, not minutes, of each...

to follow your logic I think would mean that only a highly centralized, beaurocratized system could generate a “grand” cuisine – that seems highly unlikely. the fact that their is a strong central government, as...

values in my daughter. This may be less true today than it was say 25 years ago due to advances in government policies and technology, however, as a society, we are considerably behind countries like the US, when it comes to...

, by servers who feel cheated by their employers. At one <self service!!> restaurant in Toronto, much of the staff came via a government program for the unemployed and their minimum wage pay was partly subsidized. The...

about educated, generally well-connected foreign citizens who are sent by their governments or companies for some special program in the US – not bumpkins. I get special needs ahead of time (allergies, religious food...