I agree about low fat cream cheese. It’s a good medium for flavored spreads. I scoop the entire container into a mixing bowl, add several tablespoons of freshly chopped chives, and have something better than the stuff at my...

. We will make it part of our dining repetoir. And Jim’s right. By car from Brooklyn it couldn’t be easier.

meats and makes a great sandwich as well. We have been going to A Brooklyn Pizza on mission gorge lately, and Manhattan Pizza on Lake Murray has been surprisingly good. It seems like new owners recently, with an improvement on the...

potato chips Toronto style bagels (doughnut shaped bread, baked and not boiled) Low fat chocolate milk (they use 1% around here) Sadly, it sounds like were ketchup crazy up here!

The frozen fruit is also much more reasonably priced than at the other shops in my area (NYC-Brooklyn). When I go there, I always have to buy a few bags for my spouse.

Yeah, no one in my family but me likes the fries at In-and-Out. I also like McD fries; even better are the grease-soaked hash browns; do not care for BK fries. As for making what the chains make at home: I learned this lesson...

of sauce. Their provenance is controversial, but most agree that they have nothing to do with Brooklyn, and probably originated in Michigan.

followed by Georgetown Bagel Bakery and Mama Lucia, in that order. Buon Appetito is about as legit NYC as you’ll find in the DC area. I also like Pizzamart’s slices (Adams Morgan) but I usually go there at 1AM after...

That’s true — you have the people who live Uptown and are very cosmopolitan and tend to eat out quite a lot, and on the other hand you have Ma and Pa in their home in Brooklyn Park or Lakeville who just stay in and...

's a place like Zankou chicken (Armenian-Lebanese) or Cafe Baccali (Chinese-Malaysian) or Porto’s (Cuban). LA is very strong in Latin, Asian, and Middle-Eastern dining. It’s hard to say there are any particularly LA...

Coming home from school to find my parents kitchen busy with activity as my great grandmother(Nana)in a housecoat, visiting from Brooklyn directed the cooking for the Jewish holidays whether it was regular Jewish food for Rosh...

"What kind of butter forms a puddle (other than melted butter?). I’m confused..." Try Land O’Lakes Sweet Cream Salted Butter in a small hot kitchen in a Brooklyn apartment in the middle of August.

that she could only eat half of it because the flavour was too strong! She had never had a bagel before that trip either, and "wasnt too sure about them." She didnt take any of my dining suggestions for the rest of the stay.