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WORST MEAL OF MY LIFE: Bouley Bakery
, and tables blossom with glasses filled with Coca Cola instead of Tokay Pinot Gris. Few if any restaurants are prepared to deal with the tumult. (If Gramercy is ever awarded a fourth star, weekends will be just as bad.) And the...
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Any good places to chow in Seoul, Korea?
is similar. Also, HH style is traditionally served with a fish garnish, while PY is garnished with meat that was used to make some of the broth. One thing my mom always insisted on was the correct preparation for the cucumber...
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Perceiving Food
for ANYBODY who wasn’t really open and flexible (I bet Mallarme ate 'em, by the way). Macrobiotic cuisine won’t excite anyone’s palate, unless you’re prepared to appreciate the plain, elemental pleasures...
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Rhode Island specialities [moved from a discussion on the Boston board]
the Pinhead (along with the Modern Diner and other RI landmarks). Order more than a couple and you’ll probably get to see them prepared "up the arm." Also, the term “gaggers” (pronounced gaggiz in any case) seems...
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Our love affair with all things Tartine-- and the rest of our trip to San Francisco (a long report!)...
the food quality and preparation was excellent, I just subjectively didn’t like the flavors. As for there being a place like Bar Tartine in New York... please tell me where it is!! I guess what you’re talking about...
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Store bought bread vs. bread machine bread
I won’t be much help in your quest because I bake bread in a primitive manner. No electrical or mechanical mixing devices are used to prepare the dough. Our double ovens are electrical devices. Of late I’ve been baking...
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Farmer's Markets, Rip off or Worth it?
never buy) or the cream (which is unavailable at Studio City), that’s $30.25. If the cream was $10 as you said and the flowers were $9 for 15 stems, you’re now at $49.25. Did you buy any prepared food? Perhaps you...
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What's up with The Bronx?
edamame? Certainly not someone interested in Chinese food exquisitely prepared and done in a manor befitting the heads of state of all countries. Congee! Pudding for children! This restaurant is for the palate that craves chinese...
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Are Chinese Restaurants the most intimidating ethnic establishments?
. There is no room for hesitation with your order, and if you can’t understand the bark of the order taker or preparer (who usually has some kind of accent these days), you get a really annoyed response. Now that I live in...
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Why are people so passionate about 'Q and their favorite BBQ Joints?
to the “closed” pit style Eat Nopal is describing. This fact also supports the idea that the southest U.S. adopted BBQ from the Caribbean islands back in colonial days as open pit cooking is still considered the most...
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What's your unusual/unique service tale??
average road food,and just as I thinking about how great my lunch tasted my father commented to the waitress on the excellent food and preparation. Imagine my surprise when she pulled a chair up to our table, sat down and started...
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What would you consider your kitchen essentials?
not be essential, but I use mine so often for quick preparation of meat, poultry, vegetables, rice, and beans that I’d really hate to be without it. It has a thick aluminum-disc bottom and, with a different lid, can double...
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your one kitchen design tip
Because many kitchens are designed around the location of fridge, range, dishwasher and sinks a proper-size food preparation area is often ignored. I would recommend at least 4-5 feet wide and 24-30" deep of unencumbered work...
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Top Chef- right now
See, this is why I love the internet. I’m on the west coast, so this episode hasn’t even aired yet, but now I know what’s going to happen! Sweet I can get the VCR prepared.
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Chowhound-Worthy Dives in Boston Proper
be the closest to the gold standard for me- The late, lamented, original Ashmont Grill. You’d have been a fool to order food there if you weren’t given a heads up but it was actually well prepared. And you...
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