flying out when the top’s open. I also do 8-cup doughs in the machine, but when I do I proof in food storage tubs with snap on lids that are available in wholesale grocers and restaurant supply stores or in the Bakers' Catalogue....

I had written up a whole review on the fortune I spend at this joint and the kid hit the keyboard and poof, gone. Let’s see, I got three different flavors of macaroons, pate de fruit, tarte tartin, carrot cake, cheesecake, and...

ways of making and eating a pie... Unfortunately I don’t know many pizzerias in that area, and usually I prefer to have a pizza (Italian-style, not the Jinkieamerican one) in a good restaurant. Try Standard’s Club or...

Schwartz and Luigi’s in Sunrise is a so-so grocery store and a restaurant built around the Bagelmania plant. The nice folks behind Bagelmania supply lackluster bagels to a zillion or so "bagel restaurants" and such in...

. Speaking of miscommunication, I had the same thing happen at Sabor a Cafe, a Colombian restaurant on W Peterson. I thought I had ordered grilled bone-in chicken, but was served a flattened breast filet, which, as with...

I decided last week when my latest Gourmet arrived. I realized I was just sick and tired of pawing through page after page of ads for $5000 dresses, $6000 watches, $50,000 cars and spa hotels in Bali. The restaurants and hotels...

, butter and never said a word about toasting the pistachios. My sister is an accomplished cook having owned a restaurant that was listed as one of the 50 best in D. C. at one time (before her first bankruptcy!). I came back from...

. Usually restaurants have a single pho broth with up to a dozen or so types of pho listed on the menu: differentiated by the type and combination of meat added. Meat ranges from tripe to meatballs to thin rare slice of brisket....

's in the past. But I’ve never found them to be consistent. And, as mediocre as today’s showing was, it wasn’t entirely unexpected. Restaurant legends can be built on many foundations, such as age, ties to a...

Last evening, I was dining in a respectable sushi restaurant in Dallas. Just a few chairs away from me were a family of three who looked somewhat out of place. All were dressed in shorts and tee shirts, Mom had one of those...

, and thought the spiciness level was perfect since I didn’t feel the need to add any hot sauce. We then moved on to the carnitas stand. This is a second location of the Carnitas De Michoacan restaurant next to Super Cocina....

passa, if you read the CH Boards frequently you’re not missing out on anything. Threads tend to be a very accurate re-creation of television, newspapers, website reviews already. With internet access you can connect with...

The garden of Jolie on Atlantic b/w Smith and Hoyt. Or Restaurant Saul on Smith. Two very nice places...

I just read a nicely written, thoughtful review on the Manhattan boards where a poster wrote “I was nervous to try it....” about a food item. Mind you, this was not monkey brains, or deep fried crickets. Heck,...

addendum...there is one dish here that is my absolute favorite that i used to get all the time and that i haven’t found at too many restaurants. it’s the fish braised in a clay pot. it’s chunks of catfish in a...