I eat solo regularly and have had only one bad experience. I was shopping on Fourth Street in Berkeley and stopped for lunch at Bette’s Oceanview Diner. Because of a back injury, I cannot sit on backless stools and so opted...

I got a wok and a big thing of Hoisin sauce. I have not really done much chinese food prep, and almost none I’ve been happy with. Any help is appreciated. Specifically: Any advice on tempering the wok? If I heat a wok up over...

be the objective on the part of the nice folks at S. C. Johnson. Anyhow, I’m one pissed-off mama and have to strike Saran from my regular shopping list. What do the Chowhounds recommend as an alternative?

How did everyone’s Valentine’s dinners/desserts turn out? Would love to hear about what worked, didn’t work, etc. Our plans to go out had to be postponed due to getting some painful canker sores...no point in...

Every time my darling father comes to New York, he insists on real deli food. Before I moved here, I had to visit with him and experience the terrible tribulations of the Carnegie, Stage Door, and other midtown...

. is this a requirement or can i make it within a few hours of eating? OR do you think if i bought some dough from my favorite pizza shop....could it last about 10 hours on the plane without being refridgerated? then put in the...

The new search engine makes it a whole lot easier. Now if only they’d resurrect the old Not About Food threads ... there were some real classics there.

assume I’d be paying museum-gift-shop prices there. A friend with a worm bin at her home has already offered me some compost.

, lightbulbs, advertising, coupons, promotions, awning, hardware, gas (natural & petrol). . . even the tiniest businesses need to have most or all of these things— that’s why the little mom & pop shop has to charge...

Oh, and one the subject of white vs. yellow corn .... I don’t like the white versions of any foods. In breeding out the color they remove a lot of the components that give the foods distinctive flavors. No white peaches,...

magazine that I recommend, called Everyday Food. They even give shopping list, and step by step instructions. 2. Barefoot Contessa/Ina Garten’s for lovely, expensive dinners. 3.

...I even found day old sourdough bread at the farm where we shopped yesterday! DH is being quite a good sport with this COTM thing but made sure to tell me to scratch these dishes from the list. As the Raven spoke, "Nevermore."

it’s worth, I chose Masse’s cakes for my wedding. The Stonehouse olive oil shop on 24th and Sanchez carries a pretty good selection of Fatted Calf items. They regularly stock most of the fresh sausages, crepinettes,...

on it eventually, but it might have been another year. Now, in the meanwhile, I noticed an interesting place a couple of doors down from Johnson’s — an old diner straight out of the '40s called the Avenue Sweet Shop....

BBQ is on the other side of the Interstate from I-57 Rib House and is run by their relatives. Food was fairly similar to I-57 but overall a notch down. Gary arranged a tour of the pit area where we admired the stainless steel and...