Crane soup as part of the farewell feast on a food tour of Hong Kong led by Martin Yan. I was not nearly as put off by the crane skulls floating in the serving bowl as I was by the flavor, which was mostly ginseng, a taste I...

In a thread on the SF board (see link below), The Ranger wrote: —— Why would you continue hitting a place that demonstrated with such a harsh consistency that the food was mediocre, or worse, bad? I understand that a...

I don’t know where you live, but here in Los Angeles, Philippine mangoes, also called “champagne” mangoes, are sold by the caseload at any Asian store worth its fish sauce... 99 Ranch, for example, Shun Fat, and...

knows. Many in New York shunned bagels for something called a Bialy. Bialy’s apparently have known European roots, but are available only in New York. The classic New York bagel, whatever it’s origins, was apparently...

OK. So now you’ve selected the ideal restaurant (Chowhound Know How), decided not to Cut & Run, & are mid-chow. What are those non-food annoyances that might, either individually or cumulatively, dissuade you from returning?...

works in the area identifying herself as Ms. Huang. '... I think the food is better and cheaper at Kao Chi or Chinchiyuan.'" http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2003/05/30/2003053321 "I finally got to try the XLB at Ding...

Excellent! I received the book Taste, following the history of England through food. I love history! My husband bought me a Shun knife to replace the one I was given at the cooking school I taught at last year, which disappeared...

into this little strip of Chinese eats I thought I was back in China again. Narrow, crowded spaces, cheap tables and chairs, the muted colored suites that medium to tallish Chinese men wear, the old hair styles, the northern...

$8.99/lb at Whole Foods Potrero.

Great question! I recently made Ina Garden’s Mushroom Lasagna... what put it over the top is that SO made fresh Lasagna noodles... it was EXCELLENT... http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,,FOOD_9936_35624,00.html

This is unbelievably fast and very tasty. Total comfort food. (I don’t add parsley.) Link: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/recipe_views/views/230614

Go to Di Fara in Brooklyn. Lombardi’s is awful, drippy, sloppy, soggy dreadful tourist food. You can obtain occasional bliss at Patsy’s in East Harlem (ONLY IN EAST HARLEM) but it’s so inconsistent that it...

– but that doesn’t make it objectively wrong, incorrect, or evidence of bad taste. Does it? My sense is that catsup, a uniquely American invention, is shunned for that reason alone: food snobs (specifically the French)...

relationship between food and wine that I’ve experienced anywhere. Etc, etc, etc. What I am supposed to be getting at the French Laundry that I’m not? I know his cooking is incredibly labor intensive, but to what end?...

A classic Julia Childs book. With a younger generation cooking many have skipped over her books. A chinese cookbook, always see mentioned Wei-Chuan and Fusha Dunlop-because I can’t get good chinese food in sth florida. A...