I’d agree it’s nowhere near what QJD was, but I’m just so thankful to be able to eat duck with crepes & tian mian jiang for a change, after wandering in the man tou & hai xian jiang wilderness. Like if there... (5 replies, last updated by Jerome February 17, 2005)

On Mount Vernon Avenue in Alexandria, there is a place with a wilder name, Pho King. (16 replies, last updated by ChewFun December 7, 2008)

to pull it off the shelf and re-read it was Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder — the book she wrote about her husband’s childhood. Unlike the Ingallses, who were scraping out a living on the prairie (and almost... (7 replies, last updated by Sharuf December 12, 2001)

works great too. Oh yeah, take some bread and look out for bears. :-) Have fun!! -Robert (21 replies, last updated by Nancy Berry April 7, 2006)

friends over to eat. During and after college I spent about 100 days a year for ten years living/working out in the wilderness, and foraging was a major part of my life. It was one of the best ways to get fresh food in my diet,... (23 replies, last updated by JMF July 27, 2006)

the Internet" lead us out of the wilderness of foodie ignorance, or does it make us elitist front-runners, unable to trust our own instincts and capacity for discover? And what about the restaurant? Does the foodie catechism that... (8 replies, last updated by Ericandblueboy January 4, 2009)

to carry their rice and beans to the mineral finds in the Southern California desert ... For the next hundred years, however, this brave new food languished in the wilderness where it was considered strictly a Chicano convenience... (17 replies, last updated by rae August 18, 2005)

suggest the former Jean-Robert de Cavel restaurants (Greenup Cafe, Chalk, Bistro Jean-Ro, Jean-Robert at Pigall’s) but since Jean-Robert has left I haven’t been back to any of them. I can’t speak to the quality... (21 replies, last updated by JohnE O September 21, 2009)

, but hey, why stare a gift horse in the mouth? Hey, a much wilder ride and oodles more fun than 2 buck chuck at half the price, what more could anyone ask? (22 replies, last updated by bernardo June 29, 2005)

Ah, "...a big dungeness crab, a loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and Thou beside me in the wilderness." Yes, bring 'em home alive, get a humongous pot of water boiling (the bigger the pot, the less grief for crabbie). My friend... (12 replies, last updated by niki rothman November 12, 2006)

in The Dining Wilderness That Is The Inland Empire, with some decent meat available at Henry’s Marketplace, and some acceptable fish tacos as an alternative to the crap at Taco Bell. Image:... (22 replies, last updated by Chino Wayne January 28, 2004)

Not specifically about food, but there are a lot of big hearty fabulous meals described in drooling detail in Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Farmer Boy." Oh, wait, you wanted picture books. Oh, well. I still have to make the... (63 replies, last updated by Mawrter May 8, 2009)

and the coupe was adopted as a freewheeling expression of the wilder more glamorous bacchanalian side of champagne. i just wanna party sometimes when i drink the stuff and not show off how much of a “connosieur” i am (35 replies, last updated by tmso October 17, 2009)

Some of you are kind of stretching the boundaries of what is uniquely “Angelino”. In-N-Out was born in Baldwin Park. McDonald’s was born in San Bernardino. We may be a dining wilderness out here in the Inland... (60 replies, last updated by phant0omx October 31, 2008)

lets see off the top of my head – janos wilder, sandy garcia, bo macmillan, chryssa kaufman, chris bianco, mark tarbell, robert mcgrath..i could keep going but then i’d have to be sure i spelled everything... (44 replies, last updated by ccl1111 May 21, 2008)