Liu, Yes, I do use one quite frequently. In fact I’ve bought several as gifts for my tea-drinking friends. So far my only real concern is that it might leak someday, but I’ve never heard of one leaking. I think...

. Thank you, Anli for guiding our table through the dishes and your previous reports on Lilly’s. In terms of food, the best thing was trying new dishes that I would not even have known to order supervised by people...

processed oil from processed ‘cheese’ dripping everywhere. Olive oil is a traditional ingredient ON a pizza in Italy and other places where pizza has been made for centuries. Image:...

Saying that TJ’s has high prices a la Whole Foods is just flat out wrong. One of the charities we support helps low-income women. They specifically request donations of TJs gift cards because the women can get good bang for...

I concur- it is polite, and very human, to be thankful for any gift.

cookies (e.g. the one I use makes a consistent 4 dozen cookies from the classic Tollhouse cookie recipe). It’s fast and efficient, and I know my yield ahead of time. Great for planning, particularly when making cookies for...

That’s interesting because we invite people who don’t have any family for Thanksgiving and everybody sticks with just family at Christmas. I think it’s because of the gift dilemma you run into at Christmas.

amazing food and good wine are somehow invalidated by cheap wineglasses. It also seems pretty ignorant of the realities of the restaurant industry, like the number of gifted cooks for whom English is a second language, or the...

epicurous.com), homemade mashed potatoes with real cream and real butter, and plain steamed broccoli for dinner proper. I am not a big dessert eater, but he will probably eat the chocolate/peanut butter chip cookies I’ve...

won’t even touch it over here, much less to fly 3,000 miles to be taken to one. . .. But it was a sweltering summer day and we both wanted AC, and I had luggage with me, and the main point was to see him. :-P But this is...

Actually Gail says in her blog that she wished they had included more of what Hung had said, about how cooking is his passion and how he grew up with it as a guiding force. She said he was vehement and sincere, and she...

This thread was more exciting than most Summer Blockbuster Movies!! Thanx for the entertainment @ no cost. (other than time, of course...) Please update us if you can. (Think “Wedding Crashers”-if ever an event needed...

Here’s a link to a thread from last summer with a bunch of firsthand eating reports for the wharf so you can decide for yourself. As usual, hound opinions are all over creation, but there you are. Link:...

Rothchilde or Chateau la Tour as a gift, and brought it to Providence, paying $20 for corkage. HE SPENT NOTHING on the bottle, but the corkage. heck, that’s even cheaper than two buck chuck. Would you still object? If the...

to be cooked while we followed our new guide. Marty, as he is also known, lead us to a combined pet store/grooming center/home brew supply house that proves the most trendiest place can eventually work their way to the outskirts...