cream" experience. I grew up in New England, so my formative ice cream eating experiences involved lots of summer-only snack bars that served soft, light Philadelphia-style ice cream in myriad flavors more overwhelming even than...

. The supermarkets here have several aisles of just boxes of these pastries, in plain, lemon, chocolate, with jam fillings, with chocolate, etc. And they last for several weeks in the cupboard. A strange sight, considering how...

notes of pineapple, lemon, and grass (surprisingly enough). But lately it seems to have flattened out, and I try to keep around some Nobilo Sauvignon Blanc as a backup, or one of several pinot grigios. I hardly know anyone who...

, consider me an aberration in the food world. They can never come to terms with the fact that my idea of the perfect midnight snack is often something like goat’s milk yogurt mixed with chili bean paste. Or a bowl of...

app because of the wait. Two entrees and 2 glasses of wine and valet parking. The next night, I made minted pea soup, filet of beef bourginion and delicious green beans with lemon for a fraction of our mediocre meal out. I also...

. Being asked to 'have a drink at the bar' and wait for our reserved table even when the restaurant isn’t full and our table looks ready. Being constantly called ‘you guys’ by wait staff or over familiarity. Not...

As luck would have it, we ate at Friday Saturday and Sunday this past Saturday. There were 3 of us and the other 2 are smokers. We always only eat appetizers and we do like to sit in the bar upstairs at FSS. Their appetizers are...

Sweetbreads. I made them for the first time a couple of months ago, and they just blew me away. I bread and pan fried them, then served them with lemon, and the intense meaty richness of them was just overwhelming.

Actually, those are two separate products. There’s the packaged kind sold by Cadbury’s, and the truck kind – basically a soft-serve cone with a Flake bar shoved in it. But the combo of creamy ice cream and crisp...

over the steak on one side. Salted the steak just a little. Had some tortilini with carrots, artichokes, and Kalimata olives from the pasta bar at the grocery store in the fridge, So that was side dish, excpt I washed off the...

to serve me sushi, accompanied with real ginger he had prepared himself, young Japanese ginger boiled with rice vinegar, lemon and natural sugar “from Whole Foods.” In order... 16.) Toro. 17.) Shimaji fish, a fish from...

Halo halo – Phillipines Tandoori pork ribs – India Lemon grass bison – Vietnam Poached chicken salad – Japan Tofu steak – Thailand

What if you couldn’t by a hot dog or lemon ice from a NY street vendor? No street hawkers in Asia? No street eats in Latin America ...etc, etc? The city of Salinas is trying to ban taco trucks. This trend is also happening...

prefer either dry fried coat like R&G or even better, simply steamed with lemon on the side. No opinion. ake mushroom over fresh vegetables Great fresh mustard greens, tender meaty mushrooms, and like the stir fry had surprisingly...

What’s next ? Tipping the hot dog or knish guy ? Tipping the lemon ice seller ? A tip should be given only to a server whose livelyhood is based largely ON TIPS....I consider the local take-out joint to be lucky to have my...