, regardless. My suggestion to avoid not tipping every round is to simply leave an extra generous tip the first round. The bartender will remember you, and you’ll definitely get stronger drinks, and quicker service, with...

told that the place across the street made all manner of wild Eastern European pastries, some of the recipes for which were then handed down to the precursor to Judy’s Bakery – which of course is now also gone. Damn....

limit us in terms of where we go out to eat, since few places are special enough to avoid the “I could have done this at home” comparison. So, most of the places we go are higher-end, more expensive, and feature...

Here’s a site with some suggestions for green cleaning: www.thegreenguide.org/article/diy/household The recipe for Alice’s Wonder Spray is what I use for most things requiring a spray cleaner, generally with some mint...

, many of whom prefer less authentic, though no less tasty dishes. The whole authentic vs. non-authentic argument breaks down for me because you have a Chinese chef, using Chinese ingredients and recipes, cooking for a largely...

've even had the owners give the name of their special dish written in Cantonese so that I could simply pull it out of my wallet when at another restaurant back home. However, the level of rush and impatience at a Manhattan deli...

an individual who has never had or taken the opportunity to learn current formal and informal table setting. My (failed) intention was to offer information for anyone who might be interested simply because there seems to be so...

One confisung word on the secret menu is “yam.” I assume that this refers to a type of dish rather than to an ingredient like sweet potato. Also is the namtok simply a heated up laab?

be had from innumerable little Thursday-Saturday bbq joints, mostly family operated, prepared by people who know they’ll never get rich but who not only know how to make good bbq but love doing it.

of MSG is really something else or simply someone pontificating! If you cannot taste it is present and someone claims it is, then how can you question their opinion? I was at a Chinese banquet a few years ago, on the onset of the...

in shreds; spicy gravy; excellent sour giardiniera; good sweet greasy fries; overpriced. My long-time favorite and still champion but it has stiff competition, especially if price is an object. I’ll try to post Al’s...

Lucky you! I’d love to go back. The previous poster is right about so many things in St Petersburg!!! Solyanka is both a meat or a fish soup, so yummy. Try Pelmeney, (meat or fish dumplings), simply wonderful. Shaslyk,...

from how it evolved in the Mississippi Delta, due to the different make-up of their customer populations. To refer to either of these recognized genres as simply Chinese-American robs them of their unique regional identities....

rosemary “vapor” as you ate the dish. (Otherwise, no rosemary in the dish.) Sounds preposterous (like the martini recipe where you hold the bottle of vermouth up to the glass to let light pass through it to the gin),...

were bad, but they reminded me of a recipe someone would have that was good, and they were asked to magnify it both in freshness, texture and filling freshness/crispness), so I ate them like they were the main course. Next time I...