If the show is going to be serious and food-focused, they shouldn’t have Bourdain there at all. He’s famous only for his books and personality, not his cooking. Les Halles is hardly in the top tier of NY restaurants....

- it was aka as “aka Ebert & Roeper” - which is why I guess she was introduced as Roeper’s friend). I did find it interesting to read in her bio that she was raised in a “strict veggie household.”...

. These included Taitian vanilla bean creme brulee, Midsummers night pot de creme – consensus was that it was probably black raspberry, almond macroons (like those that Bay Breads sells), and a three-tiered tray of tiny...

or appreciate true cuisine and the chefs that work hard to prove themselves. FYI- The FN South Beach Wine & Food Festival is getting worse each year. Keep raising the prices and putting money in your pockets from all the...

or they didn’t get a star. Petrus cuisine is solid but uninspiring, lucky they got *. Pierre has huge consistency problems (made worse when serving molecular) and hence only *. IMO the Chinese restaurants of the top tier...

thing to give yourself over to the sommelier to match wines with the food. You get to try new and different things as the wine service becomes an extension of the experimentation with the food. But this has not made top tier wine...

If you eat and enjoy food, what’s the difference? However, if you want to get into definitions, foodie has the intonation of yuppie attached to it..and it’s an overused and meaningless term. If I hear someone use it...

. Is she operating under the impression that if she includes herself in the top tier no one will notice that she doesn’t qualify?

Im a boomer who grew up in suburban Chicago. We had milk delivery, and once or twice a week the Omar Man would come by with bread. He had a two-tiered display tray, and it always contained some kind of danish/sweet items that my...

! : ) There have been many excellent points raised & it has been interesting seeing how this topic has encouraged many to try to distill their view point of an often emotional response into a cohesive compilation of words. Not...

I keep a collection of plain white Corningware Corelle dishes (2 bowl sizes and two plate sizes) stacked in a three-tier plate stand (within arm’s reach) for microwave use, heat/reheat/warm/melt/defrost. Corelle is...

with five turrets out of sugarcubes to go on top of a wedding cake again. I am not a pastry chef, and so, while those wedding cakes did look great, tiers and castles and roses and all—and they tasted great—they gave...