Monica. Les Nomades is very serious about its food, but it also is small and hush-hush IME; I felt like we were in a fish bowl. MK, Spring, Zealous: all cool and the food is great, but the overall experience is not up there with...

so glad to hear someone mention galleria. i found this place by accident when i first moved to that neighborhood this past spring. what a find! great fresh ingredients and perfect crust. quite possibly the best pizza i’ve...

's order. So maybe variety really is the spice of life, and diversity (or is it adversity?) the spring of knowledge. You might engage your creativity and write a cookbook for couples with this very problem. It could be called,...

trying a Vietnamese restaurant, that it was good but overpriced. Apparently if Tu Lan can make cheap spring rolls, then everyone should. No one seems to mind forking over 10 times the money for mediocre food at a...

and ... for heaven’s sake BUY a cup of coffee ... it won’t work. Then we are not talking the homeless. A homeless woman I know can’t buy a hot meal with her food stamps or much prepared food because the program...

. As for Memphis and bbq I prefer Dreamland in Tuscaloosa, Lem’s in Chicago and McClard’s in Hot Springs to the Interstate, John Wills, Gridley’s, Vergos' or the national chain Corkey’s for ribs. The...

to thank the Depression for this estimable parlor. When Sally couldn’t find work in the spring of 1938, his mom loaned him the money to start a restaurant. Working 15 hour days, seven days a week not only put three kids...

with them if that’s what they really really wanted. After pushing loser spring rolls last week, he shouldn’t talk. Pleased to see Zoi go, with overuse of restaurant-trite rosemary, and The Hair was the most interesting...

, or how few, wines she is sampling. Is she sampling the latest wines? Is she talking to winemakers about their new winemaking/growing/fermenting techniques? It doesn’t seem that she is. Feiring speaks of tasting California wines...

While I’m sure it was difficult, I do believe it’s possible. All of them went with chicken or pasta, and then look at what they were doing at the check-out – stripping off bok choy leaves, removing half of the...

-than-perfect food settings, you can still look around, buy the chest freezer and sow your seeds next spring. Hope this helps, Chris

reason. So: BREAKFAST. Jake’s. The coffee could be better but they serve poached eggs on corned beef hash and the atmosphere can’t be beat. I like the apple cider doughnuts at Atkins Farm Stand. Get them hot there in the...

(potato salad with spring onions). This project has expanded my cooking repetoire and forced me to try things that I normally wouldn’t cook (Mexican). The only reason why I haven’t been cooked from a JC book is because...

in C-town showed off a famous dish called Jjam-bong. This is a representative Korean- Chinese dish— super fiery hot and hearty only begins to describe your first sip of the soup. You basically have flour-based noodles (about...

got rid of another bunch of out-of-date hot chef/restaurant/technique cookbooks that I just had to have. I’ve stopped buying them.