So it’s been decided: Simon Hopkinson’s Roast Chicken and Other Stories is the winner. This book was voted, by a panel of food writers, chefs and consumers as “The Most Useful Cookbook Ever”. It contains...

. People around me were agast, but when I let my friends taste it, they were in awe – it was incredible. Link: http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/living/food/3906957.htm

There was a thread on this on the Not About Food Board a few days ago. The device is total hogwash.

part company, I fear. There’s a bleak extreme on my spectrum of edible appreciation: I actually like hippy vegetarian whole grain food. I like tofu. I use a steamer. I can dig unseasoned millet stews. Mind you, I don’t...

Ihave lived here for 18 years and am almost invariably disappointed in the quality of food here. The so-called “great” restaurants are often wildly overpriced, snobby, and with food that looks like art, but tastes...

, beige tapestry and an open “exhibition” kitchen. Huge six foot circular "modern Medievel" chandeliers are suspended from the ceiling complimenting the many candles on the tables below. In the back chef’s...

be better off? Am I right in suspecting that Lakeview restaurants are more about the scene than the food? And how far apart are these neighborhoods, anyway? (I know...about 3 miles...but do people ever walk from one neighborhood...

large amounts of the food. (You can see Michael Chiarello always cooking with these on “Easy Entertaining” on FoodTV)

In most kitchens a knife’s job is to cut things, and every one of mine will cleanly take the hair off my forearm. That’s all most people want (except maybe for the cook to remember to rinse the forearm hair off the...

Have no fear, Luigi’s is still in place. Food tastes about the same. As does A.V.'s. Vace on Connecticut at Macomb has great pizza, whole or by the slice. They also had a Bethesda outlet but I think it’s gone.

Gee, Betty, It sounds like you are doing awfully well in the Korean department. Your place sounds like heaven. At the very least, you know you are getting fresh, hot food. Does she prepare mostly marinated meats?

competent margarita (46.00). The view of the cathedral is a knockout from here – a great place the day you arrive to have your jet-lag lunch. The restaurant is done in a mexican minimal modern tone – this is defintely...

Boar’s Head Cajun Turkey with a jalapeno creme cheese, diced tomatos, roasted red peppers, chopped dates on a wrap. Comfort food sandwich is either left over turkey (i.e. Thanksgiving), Duke’s mayo with salt and...

Hello Chowhounders! I have been married for 1 month and realize that I was raised by wolves! I love good food, I am willing to do the work but I can’t find any great recipes(or is it me...lol) I find a book-a few things are...

While I whole-heartedly agree that homemade crust is superior and should def. be used in this case, the America’s Test Kitchen folks found that Whole Foods frozen crust was the only acceptable commercial brand if one were...