Looking for recs for good produce sellers in DC/MoCo/HoCo, hate the beat up pods of green “gold” in Safeway. Also resturant recs are welcome. Thanks!!! p.s. happy earth day

We are up here for a couple of days and would love some suggestions for local olive oil producers. (We could taste or look for in local stores.) Thanks!!!

of Yonkers) has a heavy concentration of irish in the neighborhood and hence several places for groceries/food/baked goods from your side of the “pond”. Google map “Katonah Ave” and "McClean Ave", park the...

in the middle of the day. I’ve enjoyed their first courses before — a country mousse/pate stands out in my mind, and marinated asparagus. These, however, may be seasonal, and not on the menu at the moment (I’ve...

Has anybody else tried this place recently? Under new management for about 2 months. Now it’s clean and looking good. Mom takes your order and son cooks the food. Standard fare, but tasty. Cheap. Mom is proud of her new...

to be a bit too sweet tasting to Chino Wayne’s taste. Upon returning to the room at 10:30 A.M., after an arduous day at the business conference, Mrs. Chino Wayne elected to hang out with Chino Wayne in the room for the rest...

and satisfying. All four flavors were fantastic, but the standouts were the Meyer Lemon Huckleberry which was really moist and had a clean flavor of spring fruit, and the Maple Bacon which lived up to its reputation as Best Donut...

The Chino Wayne’s checked in to the Silverado Country Club & Resort in Napa early Sunday evening. Ostensibly this road trip was for purposes of Mrs. Chino Wayne’s employers, and one of Mrs. Chino Wayne’s superiors,...

Mrs. Mousse loves the cucumber fresca and the blood orange and mint smash. If you’re in the mood for a beer order the Saison Dupont.

My dude and I hightail it to saratoga every fall for a couple of days...problem is, we keep hitting the same spots and want to try new spots. Where we’ve gone: Chez Sophie : dissapointing Wine Bar: Stellar Hatties: Very good Mrs...

I have found that the oven temp also varies with the quality of the bacon. Crap bacon, a la Oscar Meyer or Patrick Cudahy in our area, is indeed 400 degrees. Better quality bacon, such as Nueske’s or something from a...

I was asked to contribute a couple dozen cookies of some sort to be handed out at our historic neighborhood’s home tour this year. Mrs. O refused to allow me to do my usual gingersnaps, and I went along with it (though I...

I rarely bake these days and have noticed a widening gap btwn. my cooking vs. baking competency. Last night I made a lemon polenta cake from my Food & Wine cookbook that turned out just ok (ie, original recipe probably not worth...

diet drink before heading out, and the Mrs. had not had anything to eat all day, since an early appointment with the hairdresser. So after leaving the heart of cow country, the Chino Wayne’s pulled off the 15 at the...

! I bought another huge wedge this afternoon), but it turned out that the food was totally secondary. At least I have a much better idea what to do next time (starting with cleaning the house a day earlier). The other suggestion...