First off, I apologize for this long post. And now... The girlfriend and I are going to Seattle for a week the first week of May. We’re looking at some potential places to eat at. One place we’ve decided on that looks...

in Texas, his sister made the best refritos but added no onion or garlic. I’d come home (buying dried beans from Stop and Shop or Shaw’s) and mine wouldn’t taste as good, no matter how much seasoning I added....

in a Central Texas pit. Nor would I refuse to eat Chicago-style rib tips swimming in sweet and spicy sauce, Kentucky mutton ribs, Jacksonville pork shoulder with yellow mustard sauce, or Carolina pulled pork in vinegar sauce. And...

Chinatown is not the place to be. New Chinatown is in Rockville, but with one exception, I’m not aware of many southern-dim sum places up there. Most good dim sum is in VA. IMHO, the best local place for southern dim sum...

will continue to enfeeble their products in the interest of profits, because (by and large) we sit here like a bunch of morons and keep eating whatever they feed us. WE’VE GOT TO START SPEAKING UP....

live in California. We have in recent years developed our own wonderful oils here, and, being partial to local food I have now converted to entirely California-grown oils (I live in the Bay Area and have the luxury of living near...

, skinny, fries. Big Herm’s has Barq’s, booths and tables, a tv or two and local papers scattered about for lunch time reading. Big Herm’s is reputed to have a very good burger on black bread, though I have only...

Maybe you’re right. I’m not really seeing straight here, I’m just worrying myself to death. I’d love the whole world to eat his pizza; it would make for a better world. I can’t imagaine Mr. DeMarco...

bad CLTV pulled the plug on the far-superior "Good Eating."

enough of. The recipe is by Jasper White and has fish, chorizo, potatoes and lots of vegetables. I usually make soups in big batches and freeze what we can’t eat immediately so we always have soup in the freezer.

of tapas like spicy sautéed mushrooms (easy, easy), mixed marinated olives, crusty bread, spanish almonds, white beans with vinaigrette sauce, green and red peppers with garlic, maybe some kind of tart or a spanish tortilla...

really enjoyed eating together. Our bible was the Moosewood Cookbook, which has a great variety of vegetarian meals. Cossack pie, stuffed acorn squash, veggie stew, mushroom stroganoff were a few of my favorites. Russian cabbage...

ago. Speaking of Senegal, Adina juices is a local company that is selling some Senegalese-inspired juices in the area (such as Berkeley Bowl where I sampled them). They were pretty good and unique. Link:...

I cook on two Weber Smokey Mountain smokers and I use the Minion Method, as CDF pointed out, for long burns. It is an excellent smoker. Combine that with a Maverick ET-73 remote thermometer and I get plenty of sleep. John

Strange to say, I’ve never made cabbage at home. So, it feels like a mystery. A friend of mine, an artist, told me that she likes to eat it as a snack. She takes a break from her painting late at night, cooks some cabbage...