displays an image asking "For an even $13 you can add 2 cookies/a milkshake/soda/whatever to your order. That’s just 13 cents, and a savings of X%!" and it’s up to the customer to accept it or not.

to my skinny frame. I fell in love with cooking. I fact I realized I always had loved being in the kitchen. My first memories are of afternoons spent making chocolate chip cookies with mom (I was about 2) When I was 15 I met...

was not highly/brightly flavored enough at all and the lime cookies didn’t have as much lime flavor as I would have liked, either. In Feb. I tried Pix’s mango sorbet and it was amazing – like eating frozen...

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2007/09/16/raw_deal/ Very interesting article in today’s Sunday Globe Magazine on the increasing prices of entrees at the higher-end restaurants and the actual sourcing of...

I want restaurant gift certificates, because I have a harder time dropping a decent amount of dough on a nice meal out than I do on say, a nice pan. Ooh, and I also want sheets of parchemnt paper (in case Santa is listening)...

I don’t know, they may have to knock off a dessert/pastry/BBQ/Snickers bar/store bought cookies challenges.

This is basically the recipe. I add a little vanilla and cut the dough with a cookie cutter (usually a shamrock because that’s what my kids request). Try them with clotted cream – it’s absolutely divine. http

their italian sausages and the pignoli cookies. I am pretty sure the Cat and El Cholo are owned by the same group. They are both at the same shopping plaza. Never bothered trying the Cat – just looked a little too...

in avoiding elimination after so many times at the bottom. After her recent ‘healthy’ choice of half-raw shrimp she chooses another variation of botched shrimp! From what I’ve recently seen, though, it...

no liquor license—a non sequitur). Chicken tikka masala was moist and tasty, as was the eggplant. But the samosas were so-so, and the bhel puri was awful. It was like stale Rice Krispies buried in raw onions. Mouth-searingly bad....

), grilled or baked fish, and simple desserts (panna cotta or cookies). There is dessert wine to conclude. The house wines are from Veneto, but there’s also a small selection of fine wines from Italy’s northeastern...

a cab. The main emphasis here is carne. Seems to be a popular suit and tie lunch place, but there was also casual. As I was seated tortillas, salsa, limes, nopales, rojo and verde sauces, some raw vegetables and bread were placed...

Sushi with noodles is an extreme example, as are most of the examples that people are giving. When I hear people talk about authenticity, they’re often arguing very minute points, not noodles versus rice. It’s dough...

fields in the plains? How much wheat could you grow in a climate like Massachusetts? What about soybeans for tofu and soymilk? We all depend on one another for the raw goods that make our delicious, chow-ish meals. Remember the...

pimento-stuffed olives chopped up and mixed with cream cheese. Spread on “good” white bread then cut into shapes with cookie cutters, crusts trimmed. Or the sweet version, cream cheese mixed with chopped candied...