PR community in the country" Really! That shocks me completely. Didn’t know that. You gotta be wrong though. Surely its #1 NYC, #2 Miami, #3 Chicago. Re: "they have a distinct neighborhood..." Don’t forget that in his...

As a chowhoud ‘who has everything’, my wife struggles to come up with something useful/unique. This year it is a N2O fired whip cream maker. I’m pretty sure I can use it as a home defense system in the event...

I remember a restaurant I went to awhile back that had little hand-held blackboards. The servers would write the specials with prices on them and bring them to the table. I thought that was a great system UNTIL our server...

How many mediocre dishes do you have to eat to find the gems? Or do you have a system for getting good advice on what to order?

skillfully within a system, rather than demanding change (not that change isn’t a valid goal...it’s just a separate thing). As a chowhound, I find the question really intriguing. I’d love to hear about...

A colleague of mine thought he was a real wine connoisseur. I upgraded him to First Class on a NY to LA Continental flight in 1996, him in window me on the aisle. No sooner had the flight attendent distributed the menu than he...

Celery has “negative calories”. As in, celery contains less calories than calories required to chew and digest it, apparently. According to the NY Times, it may be possible to expend a few more calories than you...

trips a week, plus a couple extra a year, which isn’t bad, I think. For someone else, though, my system wouldn’t work, because they don’t have the time or inclination to cook or they have issues of availability...

companies. The reason is big companies operate strictly via a very simple basic program: spend as little time/effort/money as possible, bring in as much money as possible. In effect, the profit motive. This works great for...

it listed that way in a restaurant computer system or two before. And trust me, Steakback Outhouse ain’t using Prime grade beef. Link: http://thecosmicjester.blogspot.com

by a significant degree, surprise, surprise!). Kit-Kat: with dark chocolate (just finished my last one from a recent trip to western NY). Kit-Kat peanut butter version. Other candy options not available in the US (the beneficent...

Love the “tap” crack! Unfortunately, can’t use it in this neck of the woods (Long Island NY). The hose water served locally usually requires a sizeable chunk of lemon to disguise the toxic wastiness. (And you...

I can’t belive nobody’ on my pet peeves yet: 1) Auctioning your food. When I order, I expect the waitron to use a system (preferably writing it down) to remember who gets what. When they come to the food with our...

1. Be wary of restaurants whose name includes the word “authentic” along with a city – and the place is not in that city (example: Bernie’s Authentic NY Deli – located in Iowa). 2. places that have...

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