, otherwise known as The House Wine of the South. Some of my friends do great iced tea pairings, particularly the smoky and herb teas. Professionally, I have been responsible for selecting wines for dinners large and small,...

What do you think tip anxiety is? You would have it too if you were a server. Why not eliminate it at the beginning of the meal.... I do this at select places

Interesting topic—glad you fruit haters are posting. (Hey, no wonder you hate bananas, what a hateful teacher!) I have select fruits I adore, pears above all yet am a lukewarm watermelon eater-always tastes" off" or wimpy,...

, fresh, gorgeous fish in a bottle of mayonaisse, a couple cups of chopped white onion and topped it off with parmesan cheese (from the green can). Then they cooked it for an hour or so! What can you do? I made myself another...

overall, and in three instances was plainly deceitful, along with one act of gross cooking malfeasance, that together constituted four unforgivable insults to the diner. Also strange was the fact that no menu of wines matching...

. “Food miles” is an interesting concept, but it’s more than that; I’m certainly not going to buy any kind of parmesan cheese that isn’t Parmegiana-Reggiano, and I don’t particularly care if...

into my cheese omelet, the flight attendent came up to my collegue to inform him that they had his special meal. She then sat down on his tray a steaming bowl of some kind of vegetable and grain pilaf. This was a strictly meat...

to be bagged separately or in a certain way i.e. “on top”...things like baggers smashing my freshly-sliced deli meats and cheeses into a garbled ball...things like mashing up my fresh herbs or shoving them down...

Why do people think the customer is always right? I assure you, some guests think they’re entitled to some pretty off the wall requests. For example, my restaurant had run out of a popular, cheapie cabernet (Hess Select or...

Ditto what’s been said by several. When we eat out, we either select ethnic restaurants that specialize in food I don’t cook, or we go to really good (and expensive)upscale restaurants where there are trained chefs...

is on the road to the golf course (it’s the road towards Vassalboro if that helps). The name of it is two letters, like L&J or K&M. Great ham and cheese Italians — always get extra bacon. Sorry for the lack of...

I am not exactly sure what you mean by “ethnic” but “Moscow on the Hill” is great for Russian food. Large selection of vodkas too. The service is usually wonderful. They have a website. They are located on...

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dinners, and Kraft mac-n-cheese? I can’t tell you how many of my friends, most professional, are leary of eating at anything that isn’t a chain. Most people are programed to eat what is easy and not to explore food....

1. Identify the foods you really, really like and know exactly how they should taste. 2. From the above list, select the ones you really, really want to be able to cook. 3. Find someone close to you who knows how to make the dishes...