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Steve Carlin's commodification model: Ferry Building v. Oxbow Market. Railroad Square?
Produce Merchant Herb and Spice Shop Fancy Chocolatier Coffee Roaster/Coffee Shop Fine Tea Vendor Ice Cream Store Culinary Artifacts Store Tableware/Kitchenware Store It’s easy to forecast what he has in store for Railroad Square...
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Shang, in Thompson LES
be happy to make us a meal given a price point and some general guidelines. All the tableware during the meal was very nice, but particularly the elegant chargers when one first sits down. I also liked the menus themselves, with...
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My Wusthof Knife is NEVER sharp enough...please help!
them up. One only needs very light contact with the steel and as has been mentioned no more than a 15 degree angle. It might look cool to swipe the blade aggressively over a steel but if you want to preserve your edges technique...
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Other than taste, what motivates you to live as a chowhound?
Joe’s pizza for emergencies). Oh, I forgot, real cloth napkins too, ugh to the paper things. I don’t see any reason not to live like Queens when we have all the stuff, its called, USE IT, don’t look at nice...
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What to bring home from Paris?
My parents swear by the pepper mix they sell at Hediard on the Place Madeleine. Many of the preserves and jams they sell there are also fabulous — rose petal jam is something you don’t find often in the states....
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Sell me on a single-bowl sink
With a single good sized sink in order to wash tableware that must not go into the dishwasher I use a wash tub set into the sink with the soapy water and rinse as I go in the open side. Space limitation was a factor whan we...
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Chic hors d'oeuvres
, have not decided for sure on toppings, but I am thinking of a smoked salman or caviar one. Also I will add a little sugar to the recipe and make one with maybe goat cheese and a preserve of some kind. Really the options are...
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Table Settings – Does this bug anyone else?
an automatic reference to my Mom every time anyone even suggests the idea of bringing a condiment, salad dressing, milk, or whatever to the table in it’s original container..... at ANY meal. She always insisted on...
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Paris 3 stars, whats your opinion
ingredients teased ever so gently to beyond their apotheosous; total control and respect in the kitchen; no extra florishes (P.G.!) no S/M tricks with the tableware (Veyrat — although, his food is so good that it seems...
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What foods do you HAVE to mail order?
Not mail order, but every time I have friends going to (and returning) from Taiwan, I make sure they bring back some “fruit salt” and preserved plums.
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As A Chowhound, What Did You Get For Christmas?
with a Lodge cast iron dutch oven, a beautiful big All Clad pot, equipment for making jellies and preserves, and various foodstuffs...truflles, home-preserved citron and cherries, Virginian nuts, an excellent Minnesotan port,...
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no chowhound friends???
't have fresh food and need to eat things that are either highly salted, have preservatives in them, etc. I knew somebody who lived on Hot Pockets, Tuna Helper, Taco Bell and her linguine and clam sauce made with canned clams....
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