Picking the time when you go, go when it’s slow, helps. The required wait can be avoided, if you know what you want and go to the counter.

difficult to beat that much air into the gelato. Gelato’s ideal serving temperature is -13C, and should melt, not too fast, but certainly not too slow either. Perhaps the recent weather that we’ve been having is...

that meal Tuesday: Johnsonville Brats soaked in Budweiser, and since it is below zero here I will cook them in the oven, basting them with the beer they soaked in that has been simmered with a little butter Baked Beans Wednesday

work for chili just doesn’t taste right without beer. Nor does Dog & Duck’s Fish & Chips. If I can come up with anything else I’ll drop a line. After 8 years on the Drag you’d think I’d be able to...

Well, the organic food trend flowed into the slow food trend which has now flowed into the local food trend, which is currently cresting as a trend. A good marker of food trends is the religious ferver of its adherents. The...

packs of beer. Spoiled chicken stock smells REALLY bad. Emptying the pantry shelves and cleaning everything in it was not how I planned to spend my day... That same evening, I had my big stockpot going and slightly offset the...

slowed a bit because I thought, no one in their 20s knows My Love is Here to Stay, but when I hit the part about “26 years of marriage,” my reading skidded to a screaching halt. So, I had to reconsider the question....

of society, found in each neighborhood, found in each ethnicity.... I have been in great lengthy beer filled discussions with people regarding who has the best BBQ, and who is the best at grilling.... Similarly, i overhear pot...

by root beer (for the most adventureous of the guests).

wouldn’t take down the cabeza if I were you – with your repugnance towards grease – cabeza is basically the fine art of taking very fatty beef and slow cooking it to give all the meat the tenderest texture of...

sandwiches—Italian sausage, polish sausage, etc.—but the service is slow and I haven’t been back in a while. Has anyone been to the place in North Beach that sells Primanti Bros' sandwiches? That’s...

prevents further darkening of the flesh and decreases the number of blood spots and bruises. Removing the blood also slows the development of rancidity.

dinner dates, salads @ home (sometimes just a bag of popcorn), or even one beer. Not very chowish @ home, but was definitely chowish when I went out.

, lemon bars, coconut macaroons – the recognizable things. Pies and cakes, especially bundt and pound cakes, did well because people could take them home for dinner desserts. The beautiful, gourmet items were often slow...

Ammedment (beer), Thristy Bear (bear / tapas), Fifth Floor (French), Ducca (Italian), Two (California cuisine), Lulu (Med), Oola (American, Le Charm (French), Azie (Asian Fusion), XYZ (forget about it). Within 5 – 6 blocks...