've just not hit on? Is day-time better than evenings? Are there some secrets to ordering that I’ve not caught on to? Am I just not appreciating some subtlety? What are your favorite dishes and why? And, is there a...

Five Guys Burgers finally opened in Midtown. It’s a pretty good burger. Everything is made from fresh and not frozen ingredients. Definitely a keeper....

personally find 95% of pizza in NY utterly inedible, and of the remaining 5%, 4% is one step up from inedible. 99% of area slice pizzerias use ingredients from one single supplier. The one-step-from-inedible ones skillfully...

and Sapphires – Ruth Reichl In her third memoir, Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise, Reichl focuses on her life as a food critic, dishing up a feast of fabulous meals enjoyed during her tenure at...

's a cookbook (though I haven’t cooked anything from it yet), but so much more. The chapters are divided into core ingredients essential to all Mediterranean cuisines: “Salt,” “Olives and Olive Oil,”...

fries and fresh milkshakes. oh the way those frys taste slathered in their secret sauce. yow!!!

taste sweet + spicy at the same time. The ingredients seem to be sugar, corn syrup, citric acid, salt, chili, titanium dioxode (so, as we joked last night, “it doesn't get sunburned”) and various artificial colorings....

Flattering question, Mr. Keg, sir, but MY “cast and stalk” days are pretty much behind me. Well, I do sometimes cast around for something appealing to eat, then stalk the ingredients if the idea holds its charm long...

chicken wings salt pepper fried quail yellow fur chicken (free range chicken, likely poached or steamed) clay pot (salted fish with other ingredients, can’t remember if it was tofu and chicken or something else) And 6 more...

competition She also made the finale when they decided to bring three for the first time. It clearly would have been Hung and Dale that season. When she was in season 3, the only quickfire challenge she won (I think) was the...

There is a gender-reversed scenario that is somewhat similar and which got to me twice. I paid cash for a nice first date meal for two, and as we were leaving she secreted away the little receipt. Not only wasn’t a free...

rewarded over time. I probably wouldn’t take out of town friends from the coasts there. Unless they’re Japanese baseball players. Judging by the photos in their lobby, I bet having a Japanese pro on your arm would be...

's, T&S, Din Ho and China Palace (secret Chinese menu)?

Hosea needs to shut up about Stefan already. It’s getting so freaking annoying. He is obsessed with Stephan I would bet he is secretly in love with him. Cook your food, worry about yourself and stop acting like an insecure...

Watching my Mom cook at the eye level of the counter/chopping board, I guess around 5 or 6. I’d go and watch just about everyday just because that’s what kids do. After a while I figured out what would be for dinner...