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Momento-us cafe experience, Vancouver
using the apparently highly prized Jagasilk Dragonfly. This is quite a performance and worth watching. He added fresh lemon juice and cane sugar syrup and presented me with this vibrantly green drink (see photo) I was a mite...
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spur-of-the-moment road trip
. Nice presentations of everything and big portions and very good service. I think I reviewed it around here somewhere else, too.
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Your favorite thing to eat in and around Boston at the moment
Interesting thread. I don’t know that this list is the stuff for the moment (I haven’t eaten a few of these things in a few months), but here are some of my standbys (in no particular order): gnocchi with anything at...
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The bread & butter presentation says so much.
I dont even notice the bread and butter "presentation" when I go out to eat. I never waste my appetite on that “filler”. I save my appetite for the food I have come for, not bread and butter.
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Restaurant Eve: Style and Presentation Arrive In Old Town
. The pacing of the dinner, the presentation, the Michelin correct service was perfect. Eve has two prix fixe course menus in this dining room which is one of two along with a very popular, active 30ish bar area. The room is...
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MSG - How do you know it is present?
product called “Accent” which was heavily advertised and universally used until the MSG thing hit in the 1970’s. I don’t know if it exists any longer. I don’t know how to discriminate MSG is present...
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What's your most recent WOW! Moment at an LA restaurant?
The thyme donuts at Craft are possibly the best dessert I have ever tasted, definitely a Wow moment. Last night at Bastide, the lobster taco was quite an unusual presentation, but the flavor was so intense... Wow!!
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Pivotal food moments or how I became a food freak..
As a child food moments were always important. Going to the bakery and getting fresh rye bread and apple strudel after church. Going to another bakery that had great baguettes- my very super blond almost white haired sister would...
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ATTN: CARSWELL: Mntrl Smkd Meat: Past and Present, Purveyors and Perverters
ATTN: CARSWELL, call for expertise: Montreal Smoked Meat: Past and Present, Purveyors and Perverters These questions need some real on the ground knowledge of the Montreal food scene. Past: On the basis of no expertise whatsoever,...
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You Say Tonnato
Stylish bites at Franklin’s Southie location.
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Why Can't Americans Make Great Carne Asada?
Mexican masters use special cuts of meat.
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Wrap It Up, I'll Take It
A taste test at MattBites offers some new uses for tortillas
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The EVOOing of America
It’s official: “EVOO” is now a word. The dictionary tells us so.
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Context Is Everything
In a frantic life, where does wine fit in? Wherever it can.
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Needless Wine Anxiety
The wine journey should be about relaxing, not worrying over temperature or timing.
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