And IMO, no one can replace Ilan for complete distastefulness. Stefan at least has a sense of humor about him at times. Ilan was just a jerk all around.

as good with frozen imo... thanks again alkapal

I agree that the singer analogy is not right-on. A singer has a voice that is a “One-of-a-kind.” Cooking is closer to the Blue Man Crew. As for the chain issue. I admit that when I am on the road and need a snack and...

IMO, Fox & Obel is absolutely in the wrong place, the wrong neighborhood, the wrong, horrible building. I’m surprised it has lasted this long. If it were somewhere on Clybourn, it would be a chain by now. On the other hand,...

If you are used to only putting a pinch of salt in your pasta water, than removing it all together will not change it much, but if you put lots of salt in (as I have heard “as salty as the sea”) then the pasta has a...

I realize this thread has gotten way into another sphere, but IMO no champagne, no wine really, comes close to ``going with'' caviar. The fish oils do the champagne in, every time, where the saltiness doesn’t get it...

there and not getting the espresso granita for dessert. It’s the best thing on the menu IMO.

Jacques Pepin made a comment on his show once about how he used to chase down chickens to make his dinners. He said most Americans open a package of chicken breasts, a pack of spinach and call that cooking. Everyone has a...

with some veggies along with the soup. IMO, making stock is an ethereal and homing experience. There’s nothing like the aroma of stock on the stove gently bubbling.

La Technique by Jacque Pepin Some may argue it is not a cookbook – but a way to cook.

disappointed former FN fans to task for feeling passionate about it, with all due respect. Relax. Bourdain is harmless. And funny. And dead-on in almost everything he says, IMO.

this along, IMO, is buy lots of canned goods – tomatoes, corn, beans, etc. As for recipe ideas, chicken pot pie with frozen veggies and chicken thighs and bisquick topping is always good. As is tamale pie – same idea,...

yumyum, do you really mean to say “haters”? imo, that term is almost always an exaggeration — by a long way. but i see it so often overused/abused in all discourse. just sayin'.

That is my experience, too-pasta and meat (with some exceptions, ie bolognese sauce or carbonara sauce) are separate courses. I like that they are separate courses-they really just don’t go together, IMO. If I ever see the...

only seafood (or not cooking at all) it would be just the same as Ilan winning by cooking only Spanish food, as Elyssa said below. That’s just wrong, IMO.