if you’re envying the 9qt...the 9qt Doufeu is currently sitting on the clearance rack at WS near my house...I think it was around $210 marked down from $295.

over that mark. In addition they had a very extensive Specialty tails section, so I opted to try a few. :) I started with a L’Anisette, made of fresh muddled Mint, Lime, mixed with Anisette Liquor and Belvedere Vodka with a...

Funny, in international agricultural research that targets poverty, we say that we go through three stages marked by the key question we ask as we enter a new place. When young, we ask, "Where are the girls (aka...

Why do people think the customer is always right? I assure you, some guests think they’re entitled to some pretty off the wall requests. For example, my restaurant had run out of a popular, cheapie cabernet (Hess Select or J...

YEAH willow tree chicken salad with cranberry sauce...J's deli in smithfield does a great rendition.

hours before it can be considered truly edible. Mark Bittman, on the other hand, says it is freshest and best right away, even given the semifreddo-like consistency of the product, and that even after freezing in a container, it...

know this game because wine and booze is so marked up and this is where the restaurant’s profits are. I’ve also told servers we’ll pick the wine AFTER we decide what to eat. The best response I ever heard to a...

to the winners of this Quickfire. No other prize was noted in the broadcast airing. WINNER: There was no one winner for this challenge. The Winners' Group: Antonia, Dale, Erik, Jennifer, Mark, Richard, Ryan, Spike The Losers'...

the door marked 5914. Then home to bed and dreams of meat. A friend called early next morning to see if I wanted to go to Manny’s for a breakfast of corned beef hash. “No way in hell,” I replied, then chugged...

definition. I used to go by the 50 year mark since that was the definition a couple of decades back, iirc. I forget what it was before that. Nowadays since people are cashing in on the heirloom tomato craze, sellers have taken to...

turned out pretty well; many guests swore to me they had no idea barbecue could be so fine. Other stuff I provide, in the best form I can manage: hot dogs, burgers, condiments, lemonade, jam cake, pork rinds, Buffalo wings, corn...

to J.Heights. Curry in a Hurry was inititally the place I would most often return to, but my interest in them faded and there was another place that my Paki co-workers brought me to which supplanted it. I vaguely remember its...

good. The package recommends 8 min. I do mine for 10 for a crisper crust. For the goat cheese one, I take it out at the 8 min. mark and spread the goat cheese out over the pizza and then put it back for another 2 min. frozen...

would have pb&j or a hot dog while the grown-ups ate weird fish or veggies. This, along with frequent trips to lots of ethnic restaurants (say what you will about Cleveland, but I do miss its concentrated chow diversity), gave me...

As I have never been to Texas, I’d like to know if there is a marked difference between what is available down there and what is generally available elsewhere. Almost every iteration of Tex-Mex I have had in my life,...