, so I forgot to order beer from the hand-pumped casks (regular tap beers are fizzy and simple), but I finally scored a half pint of cask pale ale with all the intoxicating softness and easy depth that I love in British-style...

of food served. To say that it is generous is an understatement. Omelets are 4 egg affairs filled with a vast variety of fillings from a simple cheese omelet up to something with shrimp, cheese and chiles. Almost all plates come...

- Crottin - perfect with grassy Sancerre Taleggio – ask me for my tart recipe when the first asparagus of spring are harvested 3+ y.o. Aged Mimolette or Gouda – wonderful with old red wines or sweeties, especially mature...

in the city that were writing those articles. And now anybody can write whatever they want about you and it’s on there. Mary Dumont (Harvest): You open your restaurant and, boom, up comes a blog. Gilson: Yeah, up comes a blog [on]...

understand if they want to go elsewhere for dinner. Besides, if I’m inviting someone for a holiday meal, I’ve probably invited them before, so they know how I cook. Unless, of course, it’s potluck. Then the...

A recent post about Carlo Petrini and the Ferry Building in SF grew a bit “heated” when the topic turned to whether organics and farmer’s markets are for the few or the many. Some people suggested that it was...

rworange, I totallt eat them by layer...my brother always made fun ofme for that...he has no clue that I even eat them now-a-days, much less savor each color. I don’t care much for the “flavored” ones..I like my...

The ecological impact of the meat industry (and not just methane), or at least my understanding of it, was the primary reason for my going veg decades ago. However, I no longer think it is that simple. Would it be better for me...

Basically, anything you could do with long grain white rice you can substitute bulgur. Bulgur is cracked wheat that has been partially pre-cooked and redried – it therefore is very simple to cook. You simply simmer it in...

nice, and they serve it with red and green salsa. The salsa verde is usually spicy, and on occasion it can be extraordinarily spicy. My friends and I though the difference in the spiciness of the dish was due to the days that the...

something of a constraint. i think i like mike’s cannolli better than people here seem to. harvard square is a culinary wasteland, but for other lost souls in the area, i would point out: veggie planet daedalus' sandwiches...

This is definitely not Liebfraumilch. I don’t believe it is possible to purchase it anywhere. When I lived on the Weingut we would have it during the harvest season. The wine would have just started to ferment, barely. My...

. The sauce I now make, is very simple - just fresh cranberries, orange juice, orange zest and fresh vanilla bean and a fair amount of sugar, but not so much as to make it sickly sweet. Highlights the cranberries, doesn’t...

I live in Vancouver BC and here the answer is definitely Yes-over charging abounds. One quick example-in the past year the price of organically produced Garlic has risen 100% from $5/lb to $10-this is robbery plain and simple. I...

harvested physiologically ripe fruit. Surely you can’t prefer 77, 74, 72, 69, 68, 65, 63, or 56, to name but 8 vintages within 20 years of 1975, all of which are clearly inferior to it.