, a crust, turned sweetly caramel by the long heat and smoke. Then, a pink layer, not pink from undercooking but from smoke. Finally, beneath it all, succulent, moist, juicy pig meat. Image: http

levels. We were seated at a table on the ground floor and had a wonderful meal. Jimmy started with salade frisée lardons and his main course was petit salé (salted, smoked pork). I had an appetizer of escargots and then quenelles...

Monday dinner for four at A.O.C. Pork rillettes a bit eccentric, had a smoky flavor rather than usual quatre-epices, but great on warm grilled toast. Salt cod fritters with aioli, moist, excellent. Gnocchi with lobster, pancetta

his offer (“I've only been here for three days; come back in a week or two”), it all looked good to me. Several types of pasta, vegetable, legume and fruit salads; pannini; small quiches; crème caramel. My quiche with...

. I’m doing heavy apps with salmon canapes, crab stuffed mushrooms, crostinis with tenderloin and caramelized onions, grissini wrapped in proscuitto or bacon doused with pepper or brown sugar set up in jars, candles –...

I’ve relocated to Berlin in the past two months and now live just up the street from the Winterfeldtplatz. I have to add three recommendations for food at the Saturday market: a stand that sells Belgian waffles with...

on the fixings bar, not just iceberg. They also have two relishes, one was red and I’m not sure what it was and didn’t try it. The fries were possibly the best so far, though they desperately needed salt, which is a...

at French Marketplace. I used to love their apple pie with pecans and caramel sauce.

Well, of course it’s not necessary, but it does make life easier. I mostly use it for big batches of stuff, not everyday chopping (because it takes up too much room in the dishwasher). But when I have to slice mounds of...

. It tastes good ... to me. Café Fanny’s caramel ice cream is as good as it gets in the Bay Area. It is equisite. Of the rest, I have to say that the only place I feel I must stop is Citizen Cake for their gelato-like ice cream....

) - chile ancho with cream (68.00), smoked trout on a macadamian nut sauce (100.00), sopa tarasca (45.00), poblano stuffed with chese covered in puff pastry and tomato sauce (70.00), jicama in a tequila caramel sauce. All the...

I totally agree with you. I paid $4.00 a box from a co-worker who was selling them for her daughter. The lemon cookies taste like cardboard! The Caramel Delites are half the size they used to be. Too bad!

's in Llano and, while Black’s is quite good, Cooper’s is, IMHO, superior to Black’s. While not quite in the same league as Black’s, and certainly not Cooper’s, Kreuz/Salt Lick/Southside Market and,...

: 1971 Maximin Grünhäuser (von Schubert) Abtsberg Auslese (Ruwer). Showing very nicely, with nice caramelization and creamy old-Riesling flavors, a lingering savory dose of remaining sweetness, and an unobtrusive but...

’s inability to make the Eurostar trip from London to Paris due to the chunnel cables being salted over. Well we tried it again, this time in reverse, and this time it worked. Our son was in Paris on business but making a...