from the Amish on the far side, and also my preference lies in the hot dog stuffed pretzels with a brush of butter from Fischers. —Chloe could serve as a substitute for Fork being 2 blocks away, it’s a BYOB. They have...

's preference and enjoyment. The sushi chef who is insulted by me putting a little wasabi in my soy is no better or worse than the chef who gets insulted if I want a little more salt in my french soup or hot sauce in my mexican...

Those do look good. Their Blanche sounds like a Belgian wit. Hoegarden (available fairly widely now) might not be quite as expressive as theirs...but give it a try – I like it for a refreshing, lighter beer on a hot day. The...

the pork itself — as kids we weren’t particularly inclined to analyze our bbq, since eating it was as natural a thing as breathing air or drinking sweet iced tea, too integral a part of life to require much...

Here is another article on this top 50 list that may shed some more light on why these 50 restaurants were picked: http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/food_and_drink/features/article357117.ece I agree these restaurants are not your...

family,educated refined,not flashy,the kind of people who could mix with nobility and royalty,and at the same time enjoy eating and drinking in a little hole in the wall cafe in paris or london or elsewhere with the common man....

. It was uniquely both extremely lean, really no fat at all, and inexplicably tender...two attributes of meat that are almost never found together. Moist and very flavoful too. But not sweet. So I used TJ’s sweet hot...

Kingsley Amis wrote a funny book on wine and tails titled KINGSLEY AMIS ON DRINK. Well worth looking for. My favorite food book is Digby Anderson’s THE SPECTATOR BOOK OF IMPERATIVE COOKING. Whenever I return from a bad...

Sometimes you have to make sacrifices. ;-) Our kegerator will fit both sizes, but we usually buy the pony keg because we don’t drink enough beer to warrant the 1/4 barrel size. We use the extra space in the kegerator (if you...

up a “meal” (small selection of either a salad or a sandwich), various soft drinks and who presides over the on-board entertainment. You also get a movie that plays on the pulldown screens dotted throughout the cabin...

sq park greenmarket) for their yogurt drinks as for other places on your list: bouchon bakery—their sandwiches are dry and uninspired, though the brioche i had there was great—eggy and almondy and decadent wu liang...

Beef in it. She cooked meat until it was grey. Tasteless, soggy vegetables, limp hot dogs, the woman could not cook. My father used to remark (as I piled on any and every condiment I could find) “every meals is a banquet...

the sausage with broccoli raabe. Rita’s – West Indian dive. Polori with pickled tamarind sauce. Get the sorrel to drink. Breadline – Midweek lunch only. Order the bbq (specifically ask for this on a ciabatta)...

. As viewers we get drawn into all the personalities but in reality most chefs are not polite to one another in a hot, busy kitchen.

and drinks. Then we head down to the cost and make a left turn on Palos Verdes Drive and park at that first turnout just past the lighthouse. We sit, eat and watch for the whales every whale watching season. We do it two or three...