your ability to have success in capturing one, if any, calamari on your expedition, I will indulge other loyalists of this board in proper preparation techniques. Squid should be prepared directly from the live-well to ensure...

was the penultimate 'overnight success'...working his butt off for 40 years and suddenly everyone thinks they discovered him! he’s a nice guy making good pizza. the rest is all just way to much (imho).

to Bayona, Brigsten’s, Peristyle and Galatoire’s on four successive nights (with lunch at Uglesich and Mother’s) and there was absolutely no question which was the best of any of them: Peristyle....

of their own success!

thrown by two good friends on their return from a successful week at Monte Carlo...you know how those Chinese like to gamble, and what better way to celebrate winning than dinner at Tao-Tao. I only wish that Jackson Cafe were...

think this has a lot in common with the “jazz is dead” thread in Not About Food: will we all patronize restaurants that serve up only canonized, fossil recipes and consider this the only food that’s worthwhile?...

of the printing press , who had come from Strasbourg. Some of the recipes on the menu were based on the first cook books printed by Gutenberg at that time. Amuses bouches were a small bowl of pumpkin soup with four seeds of anise...

Yeah, I liked it when it first opened, they had some creative cooking going on back then. But then it became overcome with its own success and went waaay downhill, especially service-wise.

chowhound, does the same but a little more (60 minutes and 20 miles) and he, too, has found the first successful method of his life for maintaining his weight. So, fellow chowhounds, start pedaling! It’s also miraculously...

disparaging personal comments to your waitress, I don’t think you were an ass. A steakhouse should know how to cook a steak, and “black and blue” is not a particularly arcane style of steak preparation. Oh, and...

Well, I bought a house in Vancouver to live cheap, but I wouldn’t claim it’s a hotbed of chow. Here’s an honest question: is there any place in North Portland with a concentration of good food? I’ve looked...

a whole lot of sense. Fact is, to run successful businesses, Chinese American restauranteurs have always had to cater to the Western palate (and often that means – make it sweeter!). Today we are lucky that to have much...

Here’s a site with some suggestions for green cleaning: www.thegreenguide.org/article/diy/household The recipe for Alice’s Wonder Spray is what I use for most things requiring a spray cleaner, generally with some mint...

Ah, now if I can just find me a nice single man who likes his veggie quiche, sparkling water with a lime wedge and a little fruit sorbet afterwards, maybe I can have some late life dating success. I never thought about dating...

slightly different from other versions I’ve had, I chalked those differences up to the chef’s individual style and take...as i said somewhere else, there are probably as many recipes for this dish as there are cooks....