lousy versions of Mex-mex food. As to gringos opening these places, it is just the latest food fad. Gringos have graduated from the American-Mexican food of their grandparents (combo plates) to that of their parents (the fajita...

tuitions (or forgive loans) by requiring culinary graduates to give some service back to such undertakings such as teaching kids how to cook; increase school lunch spending by $1 a day; grow more of our own food and prepare and...

Pei, If you have a wine shop favorite ask the owner if he knows of any wine clubs in your area. That is how my dh and I started and know we’ve graduated from tasting attendees to hosts. Enjoy the adventure!

and definately no evaporated milk!!) This pie is very similar to traditional pumpkin pie, but just creamy enough to not glop...I’ll never go back to the old recipes. I too have graduated into making my own cranberry sauce I...

at it as an “entertainment”, afterall, the next real “top chef” will have possibly graduated from culinary school, and then worked for years apprenticing to real “top chefs”, working horrible...

C How true, how true. Jfood interviews and hires from top graduate schools and you would be amazed at the sheer lack of social grace from some of these “best and brightest.” Many have lost the opportunity in the...

Unless of course you’re allergic to crab :-). California rolls or rather cones (with kamaboko) saved me from complete sushi withdrawal when I was doing my graduate degree in Waterloo ON in the early 90s. Nary a Japanese...

cookies (from Martha’s web site), Hello Dollies, cranberry rugelach, and chocolate chip pistachio biscotti. Each kind of cookie was tied in a bag with burgundy raffia (I used corsage bags). I have already scooped up round,...

was a graduate of the Stan Kenton band (as if anyone today knows who he is), our base player had not only played with Basie but looked like his clone. Fantastic and equally talented trumpet player and drummer. And me. I was the...

So what? The so what is how would you feel if you were paid the same after you graduate as you are now as a delivery person? That’s the whole skilled vs. unskilled labor thing. You’re working hard and paying for a...

... The girls really did chug it down... If you wanted flavor you just added a shot of JD for a boiler maker... Oh the memories... or lack thereof from that brew. Of course for my high school graduation party Pop’s moved up...

(and called Twiggy) while he was overweight when young (and called Fats). We’d both graduated from Southwest High School, but years apart. If we’d been in the same class, we would have looked strange standing next to...

this is a wonderful way of keeping friendships going beyond the year of graduation.

as soon as I graduated from baby foods. Air Force brat and while born in S. AZ. in a border town good Mexican was an early experience. Moving to Japan in early childhood and having parents who always encouraged us to try new...

graduate school at that point. Turns out that in Spanish “educado” means well mannered etc., and he was doing an incorrect “direct” translation.