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no one is watching me eat
figure but it makes me very happy. I think this taps in to the comfort level of food and how it can have a huge impact on your mood. After these solitary meals I feel so content with my life. This feeling is different because...
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Concentration of good barbecue places
Thanks, Wendy. Memphis is one of several great areas for BBQ and great local food. I’d also add Birmingham to the list (with a side trip to Tuscaloosa to Dreamland and Archibald’s) and Kansas City (Stroud’s for...
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Le Vichyssois: All Hope Abandon, Ye Who Enter Here
cannot. Even those who normally are deaf, dumb and blind to everything a restaurant does beyond putting food onto a plate might find their nonchalance challenged by the tawdry ambience, grimly incompetent service, and total...
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Waiter Water Tricks. Not so funny......
, I say push water," says Ian Maksik, a Ft. Lauderdale consultant who has trained waiters at such restaurants as Sardi’s in New York and the Ocean Reef Club in Key Largo. "When you serve dessert, you bring it in low through...
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biodynamic pinot noir
that taste good is more difficult than using mass production techniques that strip the earth. Biodynamic farming sounds like hogwash on paper, but after researching more and talking to growers who have made the switch, it makes a...
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Stoney's - was I expecting too much of its crabcake?
I know this is a restaurant site, not a cooking site, but I have query about crabcakes. I had some fabulous crabcakes last week—the best I’ve every had. I bought them uncooked at the Price Club/Costco in Arlington,...
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BBQ dinner in Kansas City
, so I don’t have a recent viewpoint on their food, but I recall it being passable BBQ (great beans) and Saturday nights can be a great time in a real roadhouse type atmosphere. Would agree with Bchow that dinner at...
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Is it time to stop/reduce tipping? (moved from LA)
and at a minimun, my food delivered as ordered and basic requests handled in a polite and efficient manner. Is that too much to ask? I’m begening to think I might as well quit automatically tipping . If the service is...
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What's on your thanksgiving menu?
for Thanksgiving and a couple of last days at home – so how to have Thanksgiving without focusing too much on last year....new recipies seem like a good way to do it. (Last year so many friends & neighbors brought us food...
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Is there anything you just can't make, no matter how hard you try? [Moved from General Topics board]
Indian food. Not looking for something authentic, I just want a decent chana masala or chicken curry recipe that tastes like a boring Indian restaurant made it. I’ve tried, and after all that work, I’ve never been...
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BEST BURGER - HELP
(626) 793-0025 Still more; Muldoons Irish Pub in Newport Beach Irvs Burgers, Hollywood Fathers Office, Santa Monica Chowhound Thread, 11/16/05 Best Bugers – Gourmet & then greasy spoon/fast food http
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Mexico, One Plate at a Time: Entrees
of great food styling ;-). We’ve threaded the shrimps on two parallel bamboo skewers and grilled them brushed with oil, we’ve sir-fried them and we’ve simply just boiled them and used the garlic as a dip. We...
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The Water Trick [split from LA]
the water trick has got to go, it is true. i’m wondering whether it is simply best to stay home from now on. food shouldn’t be about business
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Barbecue - Regional Styles
/Boston butt is a cut of pork shoulder. It is simply the “butt” end of the shoulder. “Boneless country style ribs” are strips of shoulder. Chow!!!
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Maxwell Street Foray, 9/15/02
square car horn honking, and the ostentiatious display of the mexican flag (almost rivalling the late ostentation of our own american flag bearers)? Food highlights of the market were for me: 1. The chewing of raw tamarind. Zim...
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