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chowhound formative influences?
cooking. We manifested no such gratitude for her cleaning, or carpooling, or other nurturing — she was rewarded most for her cooking. Her mother was a rather bad cook, and my mother taught herself how to cook healthier and...
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The best meal of your life in Italy!
disproportionate space in their thoughts of the experience discussing the architecture and the experience created. Most restaurants which have this “balance” never rise to the level of extraordinary let alone...
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VA CHEF IN BAY AREA JANUARY 7-14, WHERE DO I EAT? NO RESTRICTIONS
grab lunch there and plunk down on the church lawn kitty corner. For non-food adventure, UC Berkeley is very close and has some interesting buildings and a beautiful campus. See http://www.berkeley.edu/tour/campus/index.html for...
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The 3 Grand Cuisines
saw. He devoted a great deal of space to describing the food, how it was prepared, the breadth of the cuisine, which was far greater than anything Europe knew at that time. 4) The sheer diversity of Mexican cuisine is not...
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Sushi Monster Devours Peninsula: The Big List v. 3.0
-seat bar is extremely intimate, personal space being measured in millimeters. The noise level can be off the charts. (Sam is fond of barking out orders and greetings in a voice that could be heard quite clearly by drivers out on...
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EWS - "Treat as Radioactive" list (discussion)
the proceedings on the grounds that I have tried it a number of times and have already formed an opinion. It’s not that the food is awful or overpriced, or that the space is cramped and crowded, or that the service is often...
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This Week's Issue of Los Angeles Area ChowNews (free!)
(see also ChowNews #30, #41, #50, #63, #64, #69, #108) for Korean BBQ, says Sonia. "More authentic, slightly cleaner...only slightly." Fine BBQ, but if you’re feeling adventurous, try jun gol, a cook-at-your-table casserole....
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As A Chowhound, What Did You Get For Christmas?
Running out of storage space after this Christmas... Vacuum sealer Kitchenaid 3 cup food processor Blender (burnt mine out weeks ago doing celeriac puree!) 11" electric griddle (no idea what I’m gonna do with this) Stick blender...
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Do you blame the server if...
a special order. so you have 4 heritage ducks, or something. you cook these up for customers as a special, or else cook them at home for a party—otherwise they take up space in the freezer and don’t do anyone any...
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Jeez, is everyone still recovering from the Westernathon?
that was just a stop to reconnoiter for further adventures; I was halfway tempted to take the kids to go have breakfast at Miss Muffet this morning, and I’m sure some less frigid Sunday morning I will. Likewise, Rainbow...
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The greatest pie of my life: Toni Marie's (plus gen'l bakery thoughts)
the pie. Great Pie is the hot melding of love and friendship served with a cold side of the ice cream of a beloved space— your favorite diner, a friend’s house, a carved up table at the Medici. I think the fact that...
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Fifth Floor
and proactive, and yet also allowed me sufficient space in the context of the meal. He will be very helpful to the chef, as will the sommelier team. The non-sommelier dining room team members were very gracious and...
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Authentic ethnic food, your opinion for my research paper?
— especially not within the diverse space of the US. 2) You’ll also want to ask about this thing called ‘authenticity’ (along with ‘fake’); not only do these words carry a moralising impulse,...
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Budget Cooking
the real cost of the chicken almost in half and has a million uses. (And if you will freeze everything FLAT on a cookie sheet— contents pressed evenly to the top so you can squeeze all the air out, amazing how little...
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Top 10 Tastes of California [L.A. Area]
eagerly await the reports (on the multiple boards) of your adventures.
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