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8 nights, 9 days of eating myself silly in the Bay Area (a long report)
the lamb, I knew that the meat was the real star of this dish. The lamb (Dal Porto Ranch) was the best lamb I have ever had buttery soft, great lamb flavor without any gaminess. The sausage was also great, the chicken leg...
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father's office
- not something I could eat every day – but wow, it was spectacular. The flavors of the meat, cheese, arugula, and carmelized onions all complimented one another perfectly, the meat was juicy and perfectly done medium, and...
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Excremental Encounter
to be rude or a dumb American. So I tried to eat the potatoes and tomatoes that had come with it (which was hard to do because at that point they tasted just like the meat). And then pushed what was left around my plate so it...
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Batali got the boot (from FN)
Alas, no. She doesn’t eat meat, so it’s probably going to be one of those "how will Gwyneth survive in the land of meat."
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Alarm! Chowhounds fight back! Please!
Ranch (Chez Pannise’s meat supplier) gratefully praise Waters for making his products some of the most sought after in the food industry. Niman has been on the forefront of responsible sustainable agriculture for years. If...
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supermarket goodies.
Well, my supermarket is either Ranch 99 or Lion which emphasizes on Asian foods. My favorites are probably exotic to some but they can be found easily on these Asian supermarkets that are abundant in my area(Fremont, Union City,...
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Top Chef-Tailgating
That whole unhygenic thing was weird—I don’t remember that ever coming up in previous seasons, although there’s been lots of carting around raw meat to picnics and such. Seems like if editors wanted to focus on...
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What's your house wine?
wine with Japanese food, weekend breakfast, as a starter when I have company, and just to sip outside of meals. I drink my sauvignon blanc with light food like salads and fish. With other Asian cuisines like Thai, Indian, and...
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Eating Healthy
part company, I fear. There’s a bleak extreme on my spectrum of edible appreciation: I actually like hippy vegetarian whole grain food. I like tofu. I use a steamer. I can dig unseasoned millet stews. Mind you, I don’t...
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Maison d'Azur (SoBe)
of their shells, scrape off a little “hood” on the foot of the meat, all to get a little skinny bit of snail. A little bowl of them is easily a good 20 minutes work, but it tastes just like essence of the sea (and is...
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Food Snob or Food Lover?
mayo from Japan (which is used in many very fancy restaurants) or commercially produced meat pies from New Zealand or guarana flavored soda from Brazil. I am 100% a food lover, this does not exclude me from the occasional food...
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Mr Taster's getting married! Help me with my Chinese banquet.
will be thrilled to participate in this! Short of opening on a Sunday! If you have any doubts, order a one lb. ‘chunk’...take it home, wait a day...slice (probably you don’t have a meat slicer, but don’t...
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Why does there seem to be such hostility to low-carb?
up, red meat would make you strong and healthy. Then it would kill you. Then it was good, then bad again, and now it’s good again. (Yawn...)
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"White Trash"-themed barbecue: your suggestions?
I once attended a completely unironic “White Trash” BBQ in Seagrove, NC. We were told to bring our own meat to grill. The hosts furnished condiments, canned beer, moonshine, weed, speed, potato guns, M-80s, and a...
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Charged for things you thought were comp?
for a salad or vegetables. And, with an estimated 1 in 10 North Americans suffering from diabetes, I have a lot of company. However, I do agree that this doesn’t release restaurants from their obligation to be clear about...
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