I love my dough scraper too, for a myriad of reasons, but my favourite non-gadgety tool is my Lee Valley microplane. I use it for everything from onions to garlic to citrus zest to cheese grating, I LOVE that thing.

Aw shucks, ah think we kin git some of that there a-o-lee down here in ole Virginny. Ah think the widder down in the holler whips up a mess of it when she has kinfolk come to visit and she sells the leftovers in Mason jars out by...

sandwich so adored by your compatriots is to me, frankly, offensive. It is a facile foodstuff made popular by an even more facile culture. Hamburgers outside the USA are food for the feeble-minded. If you can’t make do with...

Donald’s and order a grilled chicken sandwich. What should I expect? A bun made of wheat, yeast, salt, water... chicken – grilled, maybe with a marinade or a few spices, huh? Maybe some toppings – mayo –...

the sandwiches akin to venezuelan arepas. Loved a bit less the daffy middle aged vendor woman who took a hankering to me and spent the entire meal next to my table doing the eeriest spacy dance (no, not any sort of chi...

is not the single best Italian Beef sandwich in the City but it is a pretty good one. Get it dipped and juicy, I like mine with hot peppers too. Get back on the brown line at chicago and take it to the belmont stop where you will...

QUOTE>UNQUOTE Pat, when you come to NYC, I’ll trade you one pastrami sandwich for one of your Maine “obscenely delicious wild strawberries.” The only ‘wild strawberries’ I’ve been able to partake...

How is Michael managing to stay on this show? Ironically, he was nearly eliminated on the TGI Friday’s show (for that weird and upsetting steak sandwich), but everything else he’s ever cooked would have been...

Larb? Er...do you mean lard? Unfortunately, I’m plum outta lard. And although we’re Jewish, I still love a good ham sandwich (good rye bread, whole grain mustard, Jarlsberg swiss, a little lettuce – dang! too...

Vietnamese sandwich or a $15 bowl of beans) - I am grateful for what I view the appropriate emphasis that California cuisine places on food over schmanciness, since I literally do not have the clothing to fit into your casino...

My uncle (Harry Barber..or as I call him ‘Uncle Harry’) is the owner of Scotty’s. My mom has worked there (on and off) for 35 years (If your waitress’s name was Lee...that’s my mom). I also have...

on the table. I could never stand that shape so I actually use a melon baller to serve little balls so I don’t see the can “ribs” from the can! ha ha. He even spreads this sauce on white bread to make turkey...

the Globe and Enquirer ... ah those were the days lingering over a pulled pork sandwich. Sundays they have sausage and biscuits, grits —- a summer destination when I pick vegetables from the local truck farms. Someday...

sandwich to munch on the way to work, chowhounds hate to ingest anything undelicious, and they won’t hesitate to go far out of their way for Slightly Better. For a true hound, the curve of diminishing results is more an...

of stock by saying “Well, now it's an '86. And it's priced the same.” Some satisfaction came from the 86 cent tip I left him while overtipping our pleasant waiter. Why do restaurants offer reubens when the don’t...