cooking by using recipes and after a while, you’ll begin to learn how long foods need to cook and the best flavors that go together. I also only use kosher salt. I find that the taste is cleaner and less metallic than...

I get Cooks Illustrated and have a complete set; I buy it and save the issues, then get the yearly hardbound compilation and keep that and give the saved issues to my sister. I am tired of their list of all the problems they want...

. He growled at me a few times for doing this, but I told him I wasn’t his mommy, and that if he wanted something different, he needed to make up his mind, since I wasn’t going to nag. Later, I suggest he set an alarm...

her experience as a pastry chef, but never really made it to the top three. Like other posters, I found Josie smug and solidly mediocre. It wasn’t just poor judgement like she said at judges table... it was a palpable sense...

. I work in the restaurant biz now (waiting tables) and sometimes I feel that some establishments encourage the sense of entitlement by offering so many fricken options and choices (starbucks style)!!! y’know—what kind...

. A couple of corn tortillas on the side and you’re set.

I think it ain’t elegant if ya don’t have soup. Are those little molten chocolate cakes being overdone? How about right after you clear the table you put out a plate of wonderful chocolates and a tray of cookies with...

I think its all of the above and I think that also describes a Cantonese person as well. "Cantonese will eat anything in the sky but airplanes, anything in the sea but submarines, and anything with four legs but the table and...

at a chain, you’re nailing the coffin on a mom & pop. Some mom & pops deserve that, to be sure, but it would be a good thing if they were replaced by some other person, willing to put their food on the public table, rather...

between these traditional forms of religious abstinence, and modern vegetarianism (in all of its varieties) is pretty weak. These religious rules are rather like English spelling rules, more a product of history than a set of...

of Noodles) and mac and cheese boxes. Coupled with cheap beer I’ll bet our sodium intake set records..

and lots of empty tables (no reserved signs.)

Excellent response. More than any other factor, it’s us, the diners, that set the standards. If we want crappy burb sushi at American-Chinese restaurants to be the US standard for sushi, then we should pay no attention to...

that you like but “nobody” else is doing and hence might be off the table. Be bold, and be personal. I know this doesn’t help with work-triangle issues or product selection, But I hope it makes you consider the...

the need to measure table spoons of butter and oil!