). • It would be great to have a knife at Rico’s and at other vendors on Maxwell. Most places have plastic cutlery, which is fine when eating a big, soft Oaxacan tamale, but plastic really doesn’t “cut it”...

I like downtown jury duty just for the lunch tour. The cafeteria/cafe in the Disney Hall is way overpriced, and a mesclun, manchego and date salad requires more traction than a plastic bowl & plastic cutlery can provide. DASH bus...

I don’t think that commercial kitchens hand wash their knives. The plastic handled commercial cutlery is dishwasher safe. Banging blades against other hard objects is the biggest thing to look out for in dishwashers. But I...

, tortillas and rice (the weak link) along with plastic cutlery, napkins and paper plates and it came out to $100 and change.

utensils (i.e. whisks, corkscrew, wooden spoons, colanders etc.) and plastic storage containers try the various Dollar Stores all over Chicago. www.cooking.com

Saw a manual can opener on TV-maybe Food Network(chrome w/round black plastic piece on top)that was said to fold down the sharp edge of the can. Didn’t get the name or where one might be had. Can you help?TIA

as I find it just too mediocre and too expensive. But, then I regularly frequent Trad. Chinese Buns — broken plates, plastic cutlery, loose basement ceiling tiles and all. So, I guess I don’t place a high standard on...

Northwestern Cutlery at about 800 W. Lake is near the places Steve is talking about. Very cool if you are looking for knives or sharpening services.

Another vote for Lahore here. They even nail the ambiance just right with the fluorescent lights and plastic cutlery. To be completely honest, other places around little India and the rest of Toronto proper tend to leave me a...

) and some good steam-table entrees (like oxtail stew). Mostly a takeout place, cheap and quick. No alcohol. Morse Fish — a good fish market that also does counter-service fried fish and seafood, served in styro boxes with...

Dim Sum USED to be wonderful, but they’ve recently changed management. It is now a simply dreadful buffet or order counter arrangement with paper plates, cheap plastic cutlery and a staff whose rudeness is breathtaking....

cool looking Korean hipsters and young suited couples fresh off work. Serve yourself Poland Spring water or barley tea out of tiny styrofoam glasses, get your plastic cutlery and chopsticks and wait for one of the older female...

I can’t speak to how much nicer he’s gotten (or not), but if you order an “XL” it comes in one of those sturdy plastic quart containers — and you can get two bread/fruit/cutlery/chocolate packages...

in throughout your dinner, or use their own soap and hot water to wash the dishes either. The server, in my experience, walks from the kitchen to cash register with order usually already bagged, maybe stuffs a few napkins or a...

Target is selling a pair of poultry shears, Henkels brand I think, like everything these days-pacific rim origin, $20. Has been nice for cutting up whole chickens and splitting poultry bones for stock, heavy duty full metal tang,...