you can’t expect that the food will be there within minutes. If you have worked in the restaurant before you would know unless you want to eat raw food. If you want to eat out, plan your night accordingly. Do not go to a...

to a still sweet pastry) and a red pepper gelee of sorts (excuse me for not remembering the exact French term, even if it is our country’s other national language). Next amuse bouche was a raw oyster served with an uni....

We’re partial to MacArthur’s Bakery on Lemay Ferry. I didn’t find a web site for them though. I actually really love the homemade version using a yellow cake mix. A lot of butter, powdered sugar and cream cheese....

's culinary bounty would be gone. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawtelle_Boulevard I’m partial to Kiriko (great lunch specials for sushi, and there’s wonderful homemade ice cream for dessert – in great combinations...

, they will speak to authenticity based on what they recall of their origins. Let me digress a bit more on the knife issue. The most experienced and finicky of sushi/sashimi eaters have developed an affinity for the smoothest...

there— dog food, dog beds, dog treats. Quality stuff at a fair price. And around the holidays they bring in cases of CocaCola from Mexico (cane sugar sweetened in glass bottles). Woohoo!

at a place that typically served free bread and butter, then I would rather they deal with the price increases of their raw materials by skipping the free bread, but keeping the entree price the same, $18. Part of my arguments...

Grab a couple of handfuls of shrimp from the big bag I have in the freezer (they are raw, shelled, deveined). put them in a big bowl, with cold water running slowly over them. They will thaw in less than 5 minutes. Melt about 3-4...

i was thinking about that the other day when someone posted the query about crabbiness & low blood sugar. they sometimes deliberate for hours, well into early morning [as ted allen referenced in the finale]. i’d love it if...

). In spite of all of that, I don’t consider it a favorite. Aside from the circumstances described above, it’s a choice I make when I’m in the middle of nowhere and need something to eat to keep my blood sugar...

style, the guac and the rarely seen in CT-Taco’s pastor-pork, grilled onions.raw onions and cilantro...But they do not serve tomato salsa-just salsa verde. Also try Ixtapa on rt 10 -Whitney Ave in Hamden. They do serve...

I agree 100% about antibiotic santizing agents, but I think the steaming hot water in the dishwasher is a good idea, especially for killing potential nasties on things that have touched raw chicken.

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...

certain strongly flavored foods. Green bell peppers are an odd one for me; prepared some ways I hate them(raw, on pizza, in meatloaf) but prepared other ways I like them(in gumbo preferably chopped very fine or in something like...

, he was dead on with his palate comment. If you take 100 people off the street and give them steak tartar, or foie gras, or raw tor, they will spit it out. If you give someone paella who doesn’t eat seafood, are they going...