and disappointing. Das Ubergeek’s "Non-Hysterical Gripes" thread was useful and I wi had been the prevailing model yesterday.

nice non food related gifts because you know the store where the gifts were purchased has those plates you’ve been coveting. When your weekly dinner guests know better than to bring presents. Instead, they call and offer to...

I don’t understand the popularity of Vaccaro’s. I find it amazing that an Italian pastry shop would have the nerve to use cans of non-dairy topping, the generic Sysco version, on their desserts. Yeah, the portions are...

." ............................................. Guess I’m a non-traditionalist after all. I love plain boiled rice with roast pork and gravy! Anyway, when I make this ossobuco, I do garnish the final presentation with a...

are a lot broader than my parents' were. My mother cooked mostly Chinese which is still my comfort food. But I cook a lot of other foods which she wouldn’t have eaten, let alone cooked. She had a typical Asian dislike of...

a taste of this when the new software launched with an onslaught of new posters and “ask jeeves” like questions. But what has happened is that the non-chowish folks have fallen away and the chowish ones who like what...

, and cutting dairy out of my diet (due to problems with nursing the baby) did it for me. which is not to say i’m not ready to get back to my exercising – i love working out, and whether it actually helps or not, i...

necessity for their ailing customers. This gradually become more elaborated during the nineteenth century into what we now know as the restaurant—a more modern and urban and competitive culinary environment than the...

't In that biz, either. So except for the Lorna Doones and Pringles and other pre-packaged munchies, any chow you find prepared inside a gas station is, by definition, non-mass market, as I’m not aware of any large-scale...

You may really enjoy Peter Berley’s “The Flexitarian Table” - includes menus with veggie/non-veggie options and wonderful flavors. Search the boards for a discussion a couple months ago.

i’m a server in a fairly casual, non-chain restaurant, and i never introduce myself to customers by name. the servers i’ve seen and know who do that are often compelled to do so by a misguided belief that their own...

Also in Rhode Island you can buy coffee flavored milk in the dairy section. Think it is the only state (perhaps some areas of adjoining MA and CT) that you can buy it pre mixed.

sauce for one) Grilled steak, hamburger and hot dogs Build your own soft taco night Fruit salad — my go to “they like it and it's good for 'em” option Garlic toast Sour cream ranch dip — consumed like candy,...

) are bad or 2) are really expensive, or 3) both. I am used to paying 8-15$ each to get amazing food. I like pretty much all Asian foods (esp Thai and Vietnamese, but not-soakingly greasy Chinese is nice, too) Mexican, Italian, non...

, dairy and pasta (and specialty items) Frazier Farms/Henry’s (or other health food type store) for bulk items and produce that looked either too expensive or not available at the FM (bananas, etc). Albertsons/Vons/Ralphs, or...