The premise is growing old. Too much emphasis on prepared foods and way too boring. Maybe once a month as a special...

I’ve had good canned beer from a place in Colorado called Oskar Blues. Dale’s Pale Ale and Old Chub are both really good beers. The trick is to just pour the beer into a glass. Unskunked Heineken is actually pretty...

for wine buys from southern hemisphere producers. Mustard – Morehouse is usually there. Grey Poupon shows up periodically. —- As an old cop show often said, Just be careful out there...

Sort of the zen approach to being hip? You cannot be hip if you know you are being hip because the first level of hipness is that no one knows... Or it might just be a series of grumpy old guy posts. Maybe the inquirer is looking...

I have found. The chopped herring salad is also very good, and mom just loves the whitefish (esp. the whole chubs). Just remember: fish good, bagels bad...and you will be fine.

back from the fatherland! Perhaps we should all chip in and get us a Gulfstream so we could fly up to Brooklyn every Sunday morning. Oh, I can taste the goodies now - white fish salad, bagels, onion board, nova, baked salmon...

Frozen Chasen’s chili is available at Gelsons, at least the Calabasas store. A bit pricey, but it tastes just like the old days and is a lot more convenient than making your own knock-off. And it DOES have real meat in it.

I was thinking the Ocean Spray cranberry sauce prices weren’t that great at GO ... 79 cents. Not as notable as the 50 OS year. However, they are the old 16 oz can and not the `14 oz can being sold this year. Ocean Spray...

or curing, as you mentioned. But also the subsequent storing of the cured meat; the date when the chub is cut into; and proper slicing and packaging. These last three items are where things can really go wrong in this state. A...

of people seem incapable of “getting”; the smoked malt seems to rub some palates the wrong way. Some people can’t handle even the subtler smoked beers, Alaska’s Smoked Porter, Oskar Blues' Old Chub, etc....

mush and headcheese, and so perhaps it could be made like that. An Armenian market I visit frequently has 1-lb. chub packs of headcheese from a Russian sausage company in North Hollywood, so I got some of that. The only seriously...

I have never understood the preground beef sold commonly now in chubs, let alone the preformed burgers. Give me fresh ground, from a small butcher..or better yet, I’ll grind my own at home. Just how many cows end up in one...

on the front step watching the traffic, and keeping my napkins from blowing through the parking lot. The Original Pancake House on Parmer Lane has an old-style breakfast place (almost diner-ish) feel. Their OJ is freshly squeezed....

colder this is a good spot to grab an afternoon lunch and quality brew. Also the quality of bagel there was actually very good. It was the old school chewy style of NYC bagel so the original poster may just be unaccostomed to...

In the summer of 1966 I worked on fig harvest and dehydrating out on “Old Man Xxxxxxxx’s” (the guy who wore a pistol strapped to his fat a**) fig farm north of Madera in the Central Valley of California. One had to get up at...