, but the implication is that this is not a necessity, only a feeling of one. Hence, the answers explaining that there is quite often a necessity. 2) Why do people feel like they NEED to eat? This question will inevitably puzzle...

's the year that Mom begged to skip the big, traditional Thanksgiving, rent a house at ocean and go for a long weekend of reading and doing puzzles. Everyone refused, so she resigned herself to tradition. At dinner, tempers...

arrogance, imho, lies in his appropriation of an ingredient used for thousands of years in a particular way and he dismisses its traditional use as ludicrous. I saw it, I was puzzled, I asked about it in a way consonant with a...

RST, my dear chowpal, I’ve just stumbled upong your passionate posts puzzling through the mystery of Ed’s Chinese menu. Hard for me to help from a distance, but here’s a link to an explanation of nian gao (New...

thick. The batter seemed to be baked, and not fried, as I believe the earlier versions were, or at least appeared. The onion, inside, seemed to be reconstructed from jig-saw puzzle-like pieces, if that makes sense and were raw...

:-) I’ve been puzzling “why McDonald's large cokes?” Are they different from other fast food’s sodas? Or is it the $1 price that appeals? The silly things I wonder about at 2:30 a.m......

Our supermarkets here in Cali, Colombia, have better and greater variety of fruit and vegetables than I’ve seen anywhere in the US or Europe, and at better prices. Both temperate and tropical produce. I’m always...

, and was puzzled. Had to ask a professional cook friend (much older than me!) that remembers making them along time ago. My Grandmother fessed up, and admitted making them alot in the 1960’s, for her luncheon parties.

I make my own kaiser rolls to have with bacon, egg and cheese sandwiches. Year round, that would have to be my favorite (it’s a Saturday morning indulgence with the NY Times crossword puzzle), but in the summer it’s...

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, of course, and Monsieur Bon-Bon’s Recipe for Secret “Fooj” from Ian Fleming’s Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang. I also remember being a but puzzled by the Big-Endian vs....

. Perhaps it was just RW, but I am a bit puzzled about how much people rave about it. I will go again, and I hope I have a better experience. I just didn’t think it was very creative or extraordinarily flavorful.

was being badly treated. We, as Patrons expect to be well treated and in turn we also have the same obligation to behave in a polite and civil manner. I’m puzzled by all of these punative postings. None of them indicate...

't realize he’s offfended me, to continue to serve me, all the while smugly and gleefully knowing I’m going to ‘get back at him’ by withholding his tip AKA: Salary. It’s really puzzling to me. As I...

some tweaking. I’m also puzzled by the skin texture. The only other times I’ve had this is when I’ve smoked poultry at low temps for long times. The first turkey (unbrined) I did in our smoker (6 hours at 200 F)...

and is puzzled that the neighbors have become unavailable for these events. It is as unthinkable to issue and invitation that asks the guests to bring their own drink as it is to issue and invitation that asks them to bring their...