delicious. One dish was a catfish with bacon in a sweet soy-based sauce, which may not sound like an intuitively complementary collocation of tastes but was really very good, the mini-slabs o’ pork had a richness that worked...

Two other seminal books come to mind: Jean Anderson’s AMERICAN CENTURY COOKBOOK (Clarkson Potter) takes you all the way through the culinary paces of 20th Century America, with recipes. It’s fascinating to ponder the...

I always poach my fiddleheads in milk and half and half, with a good sized knob of butter tossed in, then sprinkled with kosher salt and a few generous grinds of black pepper. Makes me happy — maybe will work for you too.

. It would be easier to sort out of I spoke Cantonese...but alas I don’t. (personally i’d like to change that .. i hear cantonese is sublimely well developed in the swearing department.) Also, a friend of mine at work...

I’d be interested in other people’s take on this, but we had dinner at Le Francais about two months ago, and it was not transcendent, as in the old days. Sadly, it was really pretty pedestrian this time around.

Pasties are Cornish, brought here by miners. But they were “adopted” by all the Scandinavians working in the taconite mines on the Range in the early and mid-1900s. My Swedish grandmother learned to make them from her...

://www.monumentinn.com/ I also second texnosh’s recommendations of Goode Co. Texas Seafood. You really should take a drive out thru China Town on the west side, even if only passing thru. I know someone from SF who thought he...

to help with the gardening. it takes both exercise and good eating habits to be fit.

reconaissance work first. My mission: to find out whether Masa’s former sous-chef, Hiro Urasawa, could maintain the highest standards for sushi and other Japanese dishes. With that goal in mind, I telephoned Urasawa...

Strange as it may seem most of the food in Epcot is pretty good. I agree about the Japanese places. I lived in FL for a year and a half and always had the much cheaper resident Disney passes, so I would take the hour drive up...

site, they will take phone orders for shipment to your house. Link: http://www.stubbsbbq

grilled mahi mahi. the shrimp are good, too — a little on the spicy side for me, but i bet they’re perfect for people that like spicy. it’s great for take out or eat in (nice, relaxed atmosphere, very local).

! Sichuan Braised Whole Fish with Tofu ..The underrated dish of the nite..I know this, because I ended up taking half of it home! Unfortunately, they served it at the end, when we wre groaning in our seats, and it looked like a...

Has your diner dinner happened yet? How’d it work out for you?

don’t think I’d take my extremely fickle b-friend to a restaurant where he didn’t have any choices. The forward-most section of the downstairs dining room seemed to have more subdued lighting than the middle...