Concerning Mimi’s: I agree that they had a great product-we always would buy her great sandwiches for road trips-it was a ritual. I live just around the corner from the shop and was horrified to discover that it had...

’s perfectly acceptable to say right upfront — and immediately so it doesn’t turn into a big production — when someone makes a request of you that just seems too much. Bringing dessert for 19, even if it were just a...

notable companions would be: 'The Taste of Mexico' - Patricia Quintana ‘The Food and Life of Oaxaca’ - Zarela Martinez ‘Food From My Heart’ - Zarela Martinez (the Oaxaca book is way better..but there are some...

a trip in themselves. A.R. Valentien is decorated with original paintings by the eponymous artist and the chef is talented and deeply committed to local sourcing and making his own products. So for breakfast you can have...

entertainment and kids stuff as well. The other thing that’s a can’t miss is Taste of Chicago downtown along the lakefront. It’s a food and entertainment festival that attracts 3 million plus people every year, and...

shows that nearly all of them offer a terrifyingly identical selection of unappetizing, poor-quality pastries. (I postulate the existence of some sort of manual like “Industrial Production for the New Bakery Owner.”)...

cents a pound!) or red mineral salt for a couple of dollars a pound. Other things: a good selection of cheeses at moderate prices; same with other dairy products, including a couple of lines of organic; and a small but...

Italian customers and didn’t feel the same need to attract non Italians. 2. Chinese food doesn’t use much dairy products..so the Jewish immigrants didn’t have to worry about mixing dairy and meat. 3. Jewish...

was only so-so— sauerkraut soup tasted more like sauerkraut water and badly needed a little beef broth or something, and Gary got that famous Lithuanian delicacy Iceberg Lettuce with Thousand Island Dressing; but the rye...

had welsh rarebit, something we’ve determined must be an acquired taste. The cheddar atop the toast was not yellow as we’d expected but brown, apparently from the brown mustard with which the cheese was paired. The...

Stephanie, below is a link to a post of mine from a while back about a cheese shop in Bologna. Do NOT leave Bologna without tasting the gorgonzola naturale. We’re talking orgasmic food, here, that is unavailable in America....

If you like the heat, go to Edd’s. Sometimes I think he cooks like that just to shock Berliner taste buds. Probably why they have durian ice cream on the dessert menu. I’ll be moving to Kberg in January and would like...

Can’t do Fatburger because it makes me, well, Fat. I just can’t bring myself to go in there and order something small. I love the double kingburger with chili cheese and egg. Ouch, but it tastes so good. As for In n'...

. say you’ve had a long, solicitous chef’s tasting menu type meal and through the course of the 4-5hr meal you speak at long length with various members of the wait staff, wine staff, the chef comes out to chat for a...

Absolutely. I’ve also found that to increase the melted butter and the sugar by 1 tablespoon per cup usually improves recipes. Nowadays, so many of them are slimmed down, which degrades the finished product.