certain parts of Manila early on a Saturday morning, and see thirty or forty pigs on eight-foot poles stacked outside waiting to be picked up. There is a restaurant in Manila - “Kamayan”, I believe – where there...

Everything is better homemade! I had a friend from Mexico who would invite me to dinner,whip up the dough for the tortillas,break out the press,and within minutes would have a 10" stack of fresh tortillas (which was fun to...

.... because it best they still do the depression era... slap Rice & Beans on whatever you eat... they usually lack good vegetable soups (Menudo is not a vegetable!)... they lack vegetable dishes & fruit salads etc. in other...

I love the way he describes the simple foods his characters enjoy. In one he makes a woman tea and brings out hard boiled eggs to munch on. Or how a character has potato salad for lunch. Last one I read I had to boil some eggs...

chicken feet in the Philippines 6. Breakfast pho in Vietnam 7. Hotdogs from carts in Ottawa 8. BBQ chicken and mango salad in NE Thailand 9. Plate of hash (saice) in southern Bolivia 10. Deep fried sparrow and BBQ rat in Burma 11....

) Grilled Cheese Night at Campanile – If you are here on a Thursday night, hit Campanile for their grilled cheese night. Just get the original, which comes with arugula salad and a huge portion of fries, and enjoy. It can’t be...

of the whole meal (incl house wine, a salad and coffees) up to 100 euros. The restaurant offered complimentary limoncellos which followed the fish very well, and also informed us they had included no service charge, so the tip...

Well, the biggest lobster I have ever dealt with was a measly 9 lbs. We used it to make salad for my sister’s 50th wedding anniversery. Not tough at all. In the case of lobster, smaller means neither sweeter nor more...

for not buying two yesterday – I thought he was joking when he asked for two! http://www.thekitchn.com/thekitchn/the-cheesemonger/the-cheesemonger-shushan-snow-032134 http://www.dairysheepfarm.com/cheese.html Last night I made...

I’d like an ice-cream maker, the kind you don’t have to freeze ahead of time. An air popper (and before you mention the Whirley Pop, I happen to like air-popped corn). A nice salad bowl/spoon set. A digital food scale. A...

? Don’t forget to tip the barkeep. 10. Don’t be overly picky. Of course you should be discriminating, and if you ordered a salad with house dressing and it came with ranch, you should bring it to the waitstaff’s...

chilies in two of her dishes (Spicy Coriander Salad and Steamed Chicken with Salted Chilies) as it was a bit too hot!

place. On other fronts, I know it’s very pedantic, but it’s ‘palate’, not ‘palette’, assuming you put the food in your mouth rather than on a board meant for paint. Or a ‘pallet’, which we used to stack boxes on when I worked at a...

. No, the Linkery is not the cheapest straw in the stack, but all “neighborhood” restaurants are not necessarily wallet friendly – especially in these times (I was in a “neighborhood” restaurant...

come to the actual results. I’m most curious to see how SF stacks up to NYC, as the NYC 2007 results will be out a week later. Stay posted!