game hens with wild rice stuffing. A small crystal pitcher filled with simple syrup was on every table during warm weather, for use in our iced tea. I gained twenty-five pounds in the first semester. I think it was pre-determined:...

w/ an ice cream book. I really like David’s easy writing style and “voice”; he seems to have fun in the kitchen. So I’m starting this thread in the hopes of getting fellow ice cream obsessives to discuss...

know how to eat healthy. I don’t think my parents were purposely trying to hurt me either, they just didn’t know better. Now, we have every opportunity to know better. Something that really bothers me is how obsessed everyone...

Ha ha ha. Glad to see you’re not the only obsessing about this. I have no clue why Nikki has been there that long. I really thought it should have been her instead of Ryan (and I’m not just saying it because he made...

and walked out still starving, cranky, and bewildered. The next day we took our historian to Freddy’s in Cicero (careful readers will probably start wondering about my obsession with Freddy’s), where he ordered 5 giant...

. The follow-up question was if he knew the cow’s names. I can’t recall for sure — but I think he did! -The main thing is he knew the whole thing was a bit silly and obsessive.

Ryan was at Myth Cafe, which was a casual breakfast-lunch place attached to the main restaurant. From their website: "Cafe Myth is located next to Myth ...The café is open for breakfast and lunch, offering an assortment of...

, $80 (5, 1, 46) - Lifted nose with prune, bittersweet chocolate, mocha, gravel and green tea, gripping entry, more apparent tannin with classic proportions, tarry black fruit with mineral and green tobacco leaf, very long...

wanted to eat outside, and our theories about low standards and how people in the neighborhood accept them were borne out right away when I got an iced tea, which was the powdered variety. Anyway, we did like Sotto Voce that one...

way or another, even if he hadn’t won $100,000. Finally, Richard’s obsession with being “different” couldn’t be more of a turn-off to me. Flavor combinations and execution will always trump some sort of off the wall concoction...

of the country, despite having been to several “catering” occasions in the past few years. I guess that’s another different regional way of doing things. The only remotely similar thing I have seen (sometimes)...

I live in Canada but everytime I am in LA or PHX I pack my cooler with ALL kinds of Trader Joes GREAT STUFF to bring home.. Great food at great prices friendly staff. I am a little obsessed with TJ’s... I am also in the fan...

Russian Tea Room: Takes the honor at the moment. Schillers: overrated dump

really need to do is get invited for tea at the Rubloffs' if you want to see real art. Not a very practical suggestion for the average tourist. I think there are people coming to Chicago for 5 days, who want what I spelled out,...