Atavism? Perhaps. There is a school of thought that human beings first major food improvement as a species was found in highly nutritious bone marrow, because we were able to use handtools to extract it in ways other animals...

, but in Japanese it breaks down into 3 (maybe more) different fish depending on age- inada, hamachi, and buri. If you can find it, I highly recommend inada as a sashimi. It’s lean, but very good. It doesn’t travel...

skins blister … about 7 minutes at 450 degrees - Grill outdoors until skin blisters - On the stove, use a heavy pan and on high heat, roasting for about 10 minutes, turning occasionally until skin blisters From a Chowhound poster:...

... so I’ll be happy for the one or two confident cooks I have in my life, and be pleasantly surprised when other folks step up every couple of years or so. AND occasionally have a pot luck, when I want to see people in a...

and the mailman... bringing some excitement into my everyday small town life, lol.

—and then crawl into bed to be alone with my sinfulness (high cholesterol) But it’s worth it—cheese makes me very happy.

) are from Puebla, but the Mexican restaurant I mentioned above, and many others, have many fabulous sauces that are unlike anything I’ve tasted in my life, and use spices I’ve never heard of except in Mexican...

as a paean to food, made it possible for our pogrom-inflicted high cholestrol-saturated bodies to heave a healthy sigh of relief and not be effected at all by the diet. The poor Sephardim, so thin, never faced this issue and are...

I don’t know if you have access to Tasty Bite where you live...they are fully shelf stable packaged indian meals, and they are actually good. Things like seasoned lentils, eggplant, spinach...at the very least I find that...

I have to admit something before I describe last nights supper. I do not like salad—well what I mean is I have spent most of my life saying I don’t like lettuce. Actually, what I don’t like is making salad. But,...

be considered “Algren dives”. I’m assuming that it won’t take long for you to get your fix of the “pure dive” and you would turn your attention to finding a truly high-quality beer drinking...

what a nice piece...we’re coming into LA from NYC and staying in beverly hills...how would we get there and what else would you recommend, both high end for my teenage daughter’s celeb radar and simple for my wallet

or illegal immigrants or people from Mainland China (no offense, but Hongkongnese and Taiwanese know how to use more expensive and high-quality ingridients), no wonder the food taste horrible and most of them are very greasy and...

As a side note, did anyone else think it was amusing/sad that Todd English himself couldn’t name all of his restaurants? Maybe it was meant as a joke, but to me, he seems to have spread himself a little thin... the life of...

Well, just like anything else in life, 10% of the people really likes TJ, 10% really don’t. 80% are in the middle. I am perhaps in the upper end of that 80%. There are some items I am addicted to, and are not available...