with spinach and melted cheese) are all outstanding for basic breakfast fare. The guy who owns/runs the place has a dry sense of humor which snooty people take offense to (to his great delight), so don’t give him any guff...

of the busiest restaurants in the U.S. are there—Zehnder’s (chicken dinners) and Bavarian Inn (more German). Nothing spectacular, but fresh old-fashioned Midwestern food. For sausages to grill (something like 100...

All that talk of Trillin a few days ago got me thinking of, well, many things, but the mind fixated on fish. Smoked fish. Russ and Daughters, to be exact, and their smoked sable and whitefish chubs. That led to fond memories of a...

hi SilverlakeGirl, i find that if i use my trusty old hand meat grinder(found at garage sale 5$) ijust grind my own whatever. be inventive.

to source, as well as chub; she does have whitefish and is doing a whitefish salad. The knishes, I am sorry to report Derek, she tried but after a few weeks of throwing most of them out, gave up on this one. When I told Hilary I...

there that sell better salmon? Acme is close to my work, as is Marshal’s which I’ve never been to. Any recs on marshal’s? All that said they ACME has an incredible hot smoked salmon and really top notch whitefish...

Dale’s Pale Ale, and Old Chub. Get ya some.

The Whole Foods on Sand Lake does have several kinds of smoked salmon. I’m not sure if they’ve got the standard New York fare though, or if they know how to slice it correctly. And I don’t recall seeing...

flavor of real wood smoke, at a fraction of the price of Neuske or Niman Ranch. I have since picked up more, which I think I’ll try soaking in water or apple juice to draw out some of the salt, but old Irwin seemingly knows...

I don’t know if anybody will read this as the post is so old. My family has always made sausage stuffing with raw sausage meat. I buy 1lb frozen "chubs" from the grocery store. I don’t really have a recipe, just "the...

; it IS cooked) on a sandwich with good mustard, slice of onion, tomato, lettuce, maybe cheese. If the NYT were to feature it as a treasured family pork loaf recipe given to Elizabeth David by an old Provence farm wife, it would...

, the generic Italian word for hot peppers, not to be confused with the pickled ones in a jar sold in supermarkets). I use an old 10" cast iron skillet. After the aromatics have been sauteed in olive oil, add the fries, and a...

Here are some items that are Canadian and should be of novelty to our guest. Some are covered in other threads: butter tarts; Brome Lake duck; Amish summer sausage; wild rice; Pine River 6 or 7 year old Canadian cheddar; any fesh...

Couldn’t agree more. I grew up in Brooklyn and the best test of a good bagel is the “thud” factor. Drop a bagel on a table and the bigger the thud, the better the bagel. Russ & Daughters is a treasure. I’ve...

Oh, I LUURRVE Scotch Ales. I’m going through a phase right now. I can get my hands on Founders' Dirty Bastard which is outstanding, but I can’t get Old Chub in Kentucky — at least not that I’ve seen.