's like tasting a wine that is good, but give it a bit more time and it will be great.

have a map. Get the game. Good wine list. For fun in Santa Monica, go to Chez Jay. Get ONLY the sand dabs. everything else sucks. Seriously. Super seriously. But the sand dabs are delicious. The soup is charmingly odd. The drinks...

of the Bullet train to Frankfurt airport, where we had the pleasure of standing in line for two hours. After having shown our passports to about 20 people, we passed security to finally, finally enter the line for the SECOND...

I grew up hunting and fishing. Hunting mostly dove, pheasant, quail, duck, geese, sometimes deer, and wild pig in the Central Valley of California, in the Sierra foothills, and in the Coast Range of California. Fishing was more...

Esther’s and Bennett Valley make world-class rye bread. Real bagels don’t exist here, but even in NY you have to schlep to Brooklyn for the two or three places that still make them.

I have a friend who attended college in the Shenandoah valley. To help pay his tuition, he took a job in a turkey processing plant. He reported for the night shift, whereupon he donned the required lab coat, safety glasses and...

Hot, well prepared sauerkraut.(Sauerkraut should be from a bag or jar, never a can, should be rinsed, braised in onions sauteed in a suitable fat, dashed with a little beer or white wine, and seasoned as you prefer; I like black...

though it’s a bar. Even the Napa Valley Grille in the Mall of America would probably be a better choice for a good burger (in my opinion) than White Castle. EDIT: I’ve been at the following places with folks who had a...

fresh and dried pastas. When I lived in the valley, there was Roma’s on Lankershim just north of Victory; don’t know if it’s still there. In Los Alamitos there’s Al Dente. Buon appetito!

- 109395 lbs Napa Cabbage - 57615 lbs Nopal Cactus - 123269324 lbs Okra - 6860453 lbs Onion – Other - 5709964 lbs Onion – Pearl - 477984 lbs Onion – Red - 5079881 lbs Onion – White - 191056266 lbs Onion –...

as red table wine was from a Chateau Margaux. Again, MSG was the key flavoring ingredient. The only identifiable content was barbecued pork, and only then because of the bright red color. SHRIMP IN LOBSTER SAUCE: Quite unlike the...

at Whole Foods); produce had a great display of large cauliflower (white and purple) from Canada, but otherwise, it was nothing to compare with, say, the Super H in Fairfax. Then at the checkout a shopper inadvertantly knocked a...

even better than your ‘usual.’ -i know this may give rise too boos and hisses, but forgo the drinks. Eating out is expensive enough, why double your bill with wine and beer that is inferior to what you have at home? I...

to that of the Valley of Mexico than to that of Western Michoacan. Thus, you will find forms that are reminiscent of those of Mexico State (for instance the cooking of Toluca: the famous chorizos etc) or even of Mexico City (the...

And in the San Gabriel and San Fernando Valleys, the gyros-pastrami-tacos places often have GREAT food.