level for gaijin gringos like us. Not here! The sizzling platter was quite good; meat choice in curry, stir-fried with spinach and vegetables, with a drizzle of peanut sauce. Amazingly good, although the first serving was best...

time, with little thought to others. I can’t imagine asking someone to move or to intrude upon a party already dining when I arrive. Courtesy cuts both ways!

French food is based on stocks, sauces, and technique—skinning, plucking, boning, trimming, cutting, interlarding, trussing, barding, larding, stuffing, scaling, blanching, braising, poaching, roasting, broiling. Post WWII...

. As for restaurants I am dying to try: 1) Saddle Peak Lodge (I’m a game meat freak) 2) Josie 3) A.O.C. 4) Water Grill 5) Spago/Napa Rose/Alex/Amuse/Alto Palato/Troquet/too many others to mention I guess I need to get out more...

Frontera by Jim Peyton, an excellent cookbook for Mexican-American food that describes the differences in Mexican-American regional food and their origins.) And they scew things up. Their enchilada sauce was weak, their meats,...

is heavyhanded with the salt on the meat dishes) I used to go to Babbo’s frequently during its first years of existence and the staff was so , so pleasant – it is like night and day from what it is now. And my feeling...

's an old trick in many fields: you can often improve the attractiveness of a product not by cutting its price, but by raising it. Noka seems to have taken this to an extreme, but most of us not-filthy-rich folks have BS detectors...

on Argyle St. In that vicinity you can try: Pho 777, Nhu Hoa, Thai Pastry or a host of others. Next door to the Green Mill is Fiesta Mexicana – not cutting edge but a good example of classic, mainstream, neighborhood...

is that the vegetables used in the pork filling are correctly cut, otherwise over-chopped napa cabbage will make the dumpling watery. There should be some fat on the pork to add flavor and smoothness. There should be alot of...

it was to get the imported Chinese cooks to cut back on the seasoning – but sadly, they managed.

.. Peter Luger’s is worth hopping in a cab for.. you should, without a doubt, go for lunch, without a reservation, and enjoy the best steak in new york city.. katz’s pastrami beats out second avenue deli’s by a...

ways, ways in which people have been doing it for a couple of hundred years that actually enhance the flavours of the fish so you can appreciate the nuances of each cut. I will give an analogy with something from Texas. Think of...

(Atwater) I would gladly be the regular of a good Chinese place and have been looking for awhile. But alas, my lazy butt tends not to want to drive all the way to Monterey Park. Yang Chow just doesn’t cut it. I’m...

): 1 cup brown sugar 1 cup all purpose flour 1 stick unssalted butter cut into 4 or five chunks 1 cup pecan halves Pulse a few times in the processor to make a coarse meal. That’s it. Delicious.

that El Arroyo won’t cut it).