, correct mistakes, etc. The menu is pretty terse and doesn’t hint at what makes these dishes Guizhou style. After poking around online, I’d expect spicy broths, maybe with a sour note and some exotic mountain flora...

Now you are communicating better. You just moved to Colorado which has the most physically fit residents, and you observe sinewy jocks scaling mountains, kayaking, and running 10K’s weekly; all in apparent conflict with...

seafood! That brought back memories of a restaurant my friend and I would frequent in Madrid, where the specialty was a huge platter of mariscada — basically a small mountain of shellfish, some recognizable but others...

a community radio station, WERU (www.weru.org) in E. Orland......Maine. Just for nice, Mark

heard on the radio when I got up the day of the ladies final was the results — ruined my entire day). The internet can be a mixed blessing. Actually, being at someone’s house, away from my computer and all other media...

of Colonial British cuisine in theCarolinas and Georgia Colonies. There is little rice used in the mountain South for example. . There were large groups of European settlers who never owned slaves, which were after all expensive...

which turned out to be a platter of 5 very good sized pieces of fish of which I could only eat about half. Their seafood platter (the fried type) is a mountain. And, of course, every dessert seems to be meant for 4. The food...

tier is still holding on OK if they don’t have a mountain of debt. But even fast food volumes are softening; watch the reports from the major stocks (BKC, JACK, YUM).

(flower) Hong Ta Shan (Red Pagoda Mountain) is the Chinese name of Spring World and is (I was told) a famous town (?) or locale (?) in Yunnan, celebrated among other things for its tobacco and cigarettes. I don’t know why...

We moved from Pasadena a few years back, but there used to be a great Italian deli and produce store in the little strip mall at the NE corner of Lake and Mountain. Don’t remember the name, but it was one of those places...

). As I was saying to someone recently it upsets me that food cognescenti—radio, TV in particular—have such a limited knowledge of Mexican and Latin American food. They are so focused on the Western European. So when...

and they handle some my extended family’s eccentricities more easily than other restaurants in the area. Fern’s, Lubbock TX I can’t get enough fried okra when eating at this cafeteria smorgasbord. In-and-Out,...

I heard a radio talk show host refer to these types as “greenies” I had a good chuckle.

it at first, and not everybody tries the right wines when they are beginning. I well remember choking down various disgusting items (mateus, giocobazzi, almaden mountain burgundy etc.) during my college years. Rather than giving...

- the food they ate in the military was based on the cooking of the Midwest and they lost a lot of regional preferences. Women began for the first time to get recipes from magazines and radio instead of friends and relatives. Of...