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Mary Elaine's (PHX)
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...
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Food in Fiction [moved from Not About Food board]
I was thinking of all the loving descriptions of food in Laura Ingalls Wilder's books. In “Farmer Boy” it is all about eating, but in the Laura and Mary books the preparation of food is lovingly detailed. And food is...
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Can you truly outgrow your favorite restaurant? [Moved from L.A. board]
I was recently thinking the same thing- all these nice restaurants trying to outdo each other with wilder and weirder combinations.......not appealing everytime I have been to Jiraffe lately, they have the same specials just give me...
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SE Utah/SW Colorado
great views. Mancos – There is/was a pretty good restaurant/art gallery called Boheme, but I don’t know whether it’s still around. I also don’t know about dinner, but for breakfast and lunch, I like the...
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Food in Fiction
I love food in fiction! Some of my favorite passages are from Like Water for Chocolate (Esquivel), Farmer Boy (Wilder), A Christmas Memory (Capote), Babette’s Feast (Dinesen), and Fried Green Tomatoes...(Flagg). Love reading...
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Films that make you want to eat!
A great extra was in Once Upon a Time in Mexico where Robert Rodriguez shows how to make Puerco Pibil. There’s a clip on YouTube that shows the dvd extra
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Strangest chow you've eaten?
courses.) The nastiest stuff I have ever eaten is the glop that remains in the bottom of a food pack at the end of month long wilderness expeditions when I was working as an Instructor for Outward Bound. Students usually gorged on...
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New Safeway in Alameda -- report
. And if there was you couldn’t find it without a GPS locater and a wilderness guide to get you through all the prepared crap that clogs their shelves. TJ’s doesn’t have everything, but what it does have is real...
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What's your favorite water?
This is a very reasonable rule of thumb, and I am usually unwilling to drink untreated water. What I would say about Auyuittuq is that the amount of wildlife present in the park is very small compared to most wilderness areas....
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dungeness vs. blue crab
Hallelujah...a voice of reason in the wilderness
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what makes us so obssessed about food...
to kitchen, is a passion for those folks. As the only brother of three fated to wander in the wilderness of bachelorhood (he and my grandmother were divorced for twenty years, then got back together), he was forced to learn to...
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Childhood literary chow memories
I think that I became a chowhound because of food cravings inspired by books I read as a child. For example, after reading Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder, I wanted to try boiled maple syrup cooling thickly...
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"Dive Bars" + Good Late-Night Eating?
if you like new wave, neo on thursdays is pretty cool, but if you don’t like the music, you might not find the robert smith/bauhaus crowd that much fun. plus $3 boddington’s on thursday is a good thing. one bar i have...
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Scenario: If you could only go to four-five restaurants in NYC...which would you choose?
meatloaf on Thursdays. When you walk in you feel like you’ve walked into a Billy Wilder movie from the 50’s. 5. Other —- My favorite Japanese restaurant – HONMURA AN, specializes in soba, but they have a...
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your favorite cheese
If anyone hasn’t used up their decadence quota on the holidays, I urge you to try a triple creme called Pierre Robert. Sinfully unctuous with a dreamy, creamy flavor and texture, and a little more oomph and tang than St....
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