Great thread. It all depends on where you live, what you are exposed to and what your tastes are. I follow the Reinheitsgebot, or German Purity Law of 1516: beer can only contain four ingredients – water, barley, hops and...

Purity (now there’s another story). I confess that even as a native, Snookys was a place for a bite with the folks just every so often, nothing more. Whatever happens to Elementi, and it appears they’ve not been...

locations, even I accept that much of the Chinese food in L.A. isn’t “authentic” compared to what is happening in HK or China. I’m just saying what is happening out here isn’t very good. It’s...

's the purity of imagination. It’s subtle, direct, honost and above all fun. It’s simply licking your fingers clean. Clean of a garlicly cream, spicy tomato, thick red wine and shallot, tangy barbeque pork grease...

, Coco Reef, Mr. Egypt, (ooh... the Chinese veggie place on 4th and 7th is actually pretty good for some things. Mea Culpa.) Is there anything between 5th and 6th Street... Sotto Voce, Inaka Sushi, the All-New Purity Diner, La...

HLing, in the long term, people will judge you only by the purity of your heart. And they will determine that on their own. A hundred faux pas will never matter.

of conventional bread ingredients. So far, while there have been lovely and eloquent defenses of the purity and deliciousness of carefully grown and lovingly handled organic produce, no one has convinced me that the person who...

it assumes that it prepares a cuisine which is “correct” and by implication if you wish to modify the salt or pepper you are wrong; when it does not understand that it’s measure of success is how happy...

a classicist (or traditionalist, or old-fashioned), in that I like the purity of a (e.g.) Château Lafite label, or even that of Opus One. [I dislike “cutsie” names like featured on many Australian wines (“Ball...

This may not really be on point, but I am constantly amazed by the stories I hear from folks about the ethnic purity of grandma’s chicken soup recipe or even her porcupine meatballs which they believe were brought over from...

the existence of East Germany. Because the communist government abandoned the purity law, the East German beers were full of chemicals etc. Some of the nastiest brews I have ever tasted. ed

thing. They are all about purity and simplicity there. It’s an institution. It’s also closed on Tuesdays, I think.)

. Personally, I didn’t find that the salt enhanced the dessert, but I prefer to enjoy the purity of the chocolate (especially Valrhona — “Yay!” said Bonni). I hope these notes are useful. Auf Wiedersehen

the drink. But a Sazerac does not require such shenanigans. In fact, I should think it detracts from the purity of the drink (as an Institution). Putting aromatic bitters into bar syrup is not only folly but it is idiotic. The...

lady’s food is “better” than what you’d get at some trendy, cynical fusion restaurant. You can carry the same questions about the purity of intention behind a product over into the Ella vs. Britney debate...