Well, I can’t say I’ve heard of either, and haven’t turned up anything like them in my curiosity based hunt. Your description certainly makes it all sound very ghastly, and I sympathize :-) Maybe you could bring...

veggie stuff on the thai menu which is particularly handy for me as my wife is a veg. Also, I don’t know if this is true for Sticky Rice, but at yum thai in particular, I have noticed, as rob mentioned, that even ordering...

Blah, I would’ve rather kept Papa*Razzi around. PF Changs is the pits. Any place that tries to do Dan Dan noodles with spaghetti is not doing it well in my books.

You can buy a book at the Autogrill that shows what is available at every stop on every autostrada. Very handy for those areas of Italy where the stops are few and far between! Last week I also bought a book of sagre (food...

it from criticism of it’s rating system (0 – 30 point scale) – anonymous patrons give opinions to the Zagat database, which then simply churns out the figures. Unfortunately, a thorough examination of the numbers will show that...

being too hasty? 2. Some years ago I picked up a copy of In Praise of Wine by Alec Waugh. I pulled it out again this week and have been enjoying reading it. Soon it will have been fifty years since the book was written, and it has...

Okay I’ll bite. Being a devotee of 60s and 70s cooking/entertaining books, I get what you’re asking. My nominee would have to be all the nut-crusted/peppercorn crusted hunks of protein out there. Eat Nopal, I have not...

of solidifying this curiosity and a way of shifting it from the level of lectures and shows to the level of actual eating and enjoyment. Perhaps through our collective connections, we might even be able to convince Prof Kraig...

that coconut oil was attacked by the oil industry as being an “artery clogger.” While doing this research, we were contacted by Bruce Fife, ND, who sent us a copy of his book to review: The Healing Miracles of Coconut...

find length comes in handy is with a slicing knife where you slide the length of the blade through whatever you’re cutting. think of your knives as your foodie arsenal and build it up over time. My wife thinks i’m the...

of a culinary-literary book club — even the dieters gobbled up turnover upon turnover. That first time I made red pepper-blue cheese-mushroom triangles. Mmmmm!

Not tried it yet, but Edokko in Red Lion St is supposedly very good indeed With traditional decor. I visited on the off chance of a table one night recently, but it was fully booked - a good sign mid-week. There’s...

Working on an essay for a special food-related issue of a literary mag about food blogging. I’d like to augment my personal perspective by quoting (and of course naming, for what the publicity’s worth—come on,...

... something to breath some life into it. With that its nice to bake biscuits, muffins, or even some ready-bake breads to have something fresh to go with it. Nothing wrong with Jiff cornbread in my book — or if you want to...

it too far. The business has to carry the gift certificate on its book as a liability until it is used or expires. If it has been written off due to expiration and is now presented it creates accounting and possible tax...