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If you had to choose one national cuisine...
disgraced politicians would exile themselves in Paris. Culinary influences came full circle.... the 16th Century discoveries the Spanish shared with the French (via their Palace relationships).... Chocolate, Vanilla, Mixiotes...
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Offensively bad NYT article
relationship. I find it sexy when someone makes decisions (be it what they order at a restaurant, what movies they see or what politicians they support) based on their desires and beliefs. If that means you really want to eat a...
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High fructose corn syrup commercial on Food Network?!?
But – who is funding all of the data that says it’s ok? It’s like aspartame. If you want to read something scary, read up on that, and all of the politicians involved in keeping it on the market....
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Healthy food DOES cost more.......
... it has to do with knowledge. Even something so simple as shopping ... hey, anybody can do that ... right? NO The reason that study after study by highly-eductated politicians, journalists and scientists fails is these people...
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To all those who like Subway...
I love Coke and I drink it all the time for that very reason. But I truly believe that people make a vast majority of consumer choices, be they food or politicians, based on instructions the yget from the TV. I didn’t read...
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What makes "American" food distinctive?
- way too controversial – even the politicians are backing away. That’s a business plan that ought to qualify for “new energy” $$$$! But we’ll somehow have to qualify the workers with mandatory...
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Michelin HK & Macao debut just out
photos and news clips of celebrities and politicians who visited the shop on its window. Also Wong Chi Kee’s shrimp paste wonton mee is famous in Macau too. And for Portugese egg tart, consider Lord Stow:...
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Loblaw's = downhill
and Dominion funded all those NIMBY protestors and paid off politicians to block Knob Hill Farms from opening a location there. Which of course put KHF out of business since they couldn’t get a foothold into the area and...
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Real BBQ in Chicagoland
's resistant to all reason and earnest pleas. To paraphrase an old politician: “Extremism in the name of dried out, fatty barbecue is no virtue.” In other words, let’s ease up on the sanctimony and get the...
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The 3 Grand Cuisines
I agree; I tried to say something like this below. French culinary history might have been far different (and less exciting) had Louis XIV not been a gourmet (or, at least, an astute politician who used elaborate banquets to keep...
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"Ooh! You Made Bruschetta!"
All this mislabeling and shaving the truth in the name of marketing is a slippery slope. If we can accept something as trivial as the nabisco ad as ‘correct’, then we can also accept anything else shoved down our...
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Taco Truck Thugs - squashing the little guy by outlawing street food
Over 800 people signed a petition to support the mobile vendors. It is my understanding that moved the politicians to draft the upcoming proposal to place even further restrictions on the vendors. I have a great line (to me) that...
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CHICAGO CHOWHOUND BOARD UNOFFICIAL VISITOR FAQ v. 09 (long)
, 5592 4) STEAK GENE & GEORGETTIS (500 N. Franklin St., 312-527-3718) is a Rat Pack-era steak joint still frequented by politicians and hoods (but I repeat myself); take a good look at the first floor as you enter, because...
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