eating. Filling water glasses madly to compensate for how awfully the place ran. And the busboys actually studied you as if they couldn’t believe what an idiot you’d have to be to eat what came out of the kitchen....

to Vesuvio’s, the old Beat poet joint. Sort of touristy, but still worth a visit. Then, if you’re the adventurous sort, you can head across the street to Spec’s, in this odd sort of alley, the name of which...

through various towns (not to mention cheese shops, produce stands, bakeries, delis, "oooh honey! Lisdoonvarna! Smoked salmon! Stop the car! Stop NOW!"), my vow to eat fresh seafood every day, incredibly superb pub food, mixed in...

It depends on why you’re doing it. I know someone who successfully quit smoking after many years of being addicted by using the cleanse. I also know a couple who lost a remendous amount of weight doing the cleanse, though...

with the memory of meals like these and to forget to throw in ideas for the secret spots without the hefty price tags. Although I see some Chinatown recommendations, and Katz’s and banh mi joints...and don’t get a New...

and Texas): Never visit a 'cue place except during normal meal hours. Since the meat usually takes between 3 and 12 hours to smoke, the places plan on having there stuff ready at noon and 7. If you visit a place at 3pm, then count...

" restaurants and had home cooked. For some peculiar reason I’ve never had much of a sweet tooth even as a kid. I think the last time I had a “I really don't want to eat that.” moment was at a Korean sushi joint...

of flavours – some of the best come out of the wood-fired ovens of Bagel House ( http://www.torontolife.com/guide/food/bakers/bagel-house/) on Bayview Ave., right next-door to a fantastic...

the other joints. I’ve tried a couple of different Chinese places via Foodler.com with mixed results. As I recall, Sesame was pretty decent and also Kee Kar Lau. For great sandwiches – the new Deli-icious in Davis...

. The smallest waitress in the joint and I (pretty skinny and weak) hop on BART and cross the Bay. We had to lug, on foot, two heavy boxes (with lobsters trying to crawl out) from the store back to the BART station. Whew! To keep...

courts, street snacks and dumpling joints like a blanket! San Francisco doesen’t really have street food per se (save for the occasional hot dog or churro vendor) but Chinatown and our neighborhood Chinatowns have a richness...

of contestant already irk jfood: 1 - Smoke man- takes two pizza pans. Jerk 2 – The guy who did not have the pan. Please go home and have a bar of soap for dinner. Jfood thinks there will be great dishes by a few and absolute...

The first Chinese dishes I ever learned to cook were taught to me by a man from China who lived near me in New Orleans. He used a wide cast iron skillet that he got smoking hot for stir fries because he said that American stoves...

Momma could flat cook her ass off. Daddy loved restaurants, especially hole-in-the-wall joints. All my sibs are serious hounds, more accomplished than I both in taste and creativity. Just lucky, I guess.

, 5592 4) STEAK GENE & GEORGETTI’S (500 N. Franklin St., 312-527-3718) is a Rat Pack-era steak joint still frequented by politicians and hoods (but I repeat myself); take a good look at the first floor as you enter, because...