solution: Get those soft squishy ear plugs from your local hardware store and put one in each ear, then one in each nostril. Everyone should be happy – smelly food-eaters rejoice, as do people offended by varying degrees of...

shape it was in when L.J.and partner took it over in 1983 or so when I got married. Pictures are on the wall in the restaurant of it’s former life. If you look around at the top of the stairs, you may see the pulleys on the...

You can order a cedar plank online, or here....we can get them at hardware stores. But you really don’t even have to turn the salmon. The skin will burn off the bottom, and you can save that for people who like to eat it. (I...

Actually, I didn’t know they made it to the “must have” level. A few years ago I noticed one in a hardware store, with no idea what it was. I was not a “grilling” type of guy, but my son bought one...

a coffee/muffin spot on 7th and first. There was an abandoned toystore on the corner of 7th and 4th for years, next to a hardware store. Our fave eateries back in the day were the Oasis, the coffee shop on 7th and Union, and the...

I don’t think of 4th Street as anti-chain anymore. There’s CP Shades, Sur La Table, Peets, Restoration Hardware, Crate and Barrell, etc. I like Caffe 817 in downtown Oakland for breakfast, but, since that’s...

on the cup measurement thing, go to the Fenwicks cookware department at Brent Cross (or try some other cookware departments in other big stores or even a hardware store) and ask for a Tala Cookware measuring cup. It is about 8"...

I’m all for allowing the market to satisfy people’s personal preferences for HFCS or anything else (within limits; bringing laudanum back to the druggist’s or arsenic back to the hardware store strikes me as a...

news if you’re doing anything messy. Drawers take a single finger if you use good hardware. I’ve just returned from a long roadtrip and cooked in many different kitchens along the way. DO NOT install your cooktop in...

years ago, and probably will five years hence, so no need for special-purpose hardware in drawers. One exception: one tall, narrow cabinet for baking sheets. 2. Sinks: two. One big sink for washing dishes, and a smaller sink near...

.I cannot stand “Real Lemon”. I always have access to lemons and limes, and didn’t realize how lucky I was (I knew I was lucky to have Meyer lemons and my garden, and the gardens of acquaintances).! I use a...

down the work cycles; distribute the various jobs to a more specialized network of servers; re-code inefficient cycles to be more efficient; things of this nature. I have no doubt that the old site was choking the hardware. You...

of ?ethnic Flavor? (which is why you can buy Foxe’s at Restoration Hardware). Can you still get Manhattan Special Espresso Soda in NY?

Sam, it sounds like you have a system that works for you, and i don’t want to mess with it—at least w/o trying your wares first :) by commercial back-yard smoker i meant a common pre-fab $80-$100 hardware store set-up...

Fantes is great. They will actually stear you away from some of their expensive items if they think you could do better. I saw some messermeister pliers their for taking out pin-bones and they just told me to go to the hardware...