Without doubt, THE most common steamed pudding eaten in Britain. It’ll be on most lunch tables Christmas Day. It is just as Annie indicates. Here’s a recipe from Delia Smith (if you don’t know her – think...

I agree with your comment. It was like this with beer too. I never actually tasted a beer and thought ‘wow’ that is good beer – until about 3 months ago when I tasted a Samuel Smith Nut Brown. I just knew that...

http://www.chowhound.com/topics/514801#3645472 And I clearly remember someone putting a bunch of granny smiths in a bag.

is served in larger bowl filled with sweet timothy hay, slices of pumpkin and of Granny Smith apples. Hot water is poured over these elements to release a fragrance the complements the food. I think this probably worked better...

by a few), where the hypnosis of marketing trumps personal taste, and where real sloooooooow degradation of quality in what started out as a good product will rarely be noticed. Adam Smith's invisible hand reaches for lousy home...

at Jimmy Cantler’s in Annapolis? Moules and frites at Le Mannequin Pis in Olney? We are fortunate to live here.

KFC’s name is more elegant in French Canada, where it has to be called PFK (Poulet Frit Kentucky). Even France’s language police didn’t come down that hard on le Colonel Sahndair.

NYC has great steakhouses. BS! Even worse, most of them now have a “NY Strip”. A real NY place never has that, they have a shell steak. Nick + Steffs, the joint on Greenwich + Laight, Smith + Wollensky the hall of...