You can get the knife cut noodles at several Chinese Muslim restaurants in the Bay Area. Fatima (Cupertino and San Mateo) come to mind, along with another one near the Century 16 Cinemas in Mountain View. Never found the lamb...

So as I like to do from time to time, I just spent the better part of 10 days in and out of the prairies, mountains, plains and forests of the upper Midwest and West. On the way to and from, while criss-crossing some of the most...

I don’t know about their roti, but BLUE MOUNTAIN, near cote-saint-catherine metro has a killer jerk chicken.

euro. (The custom in Turin is to call a radio taxi, not to hail a taxi on the street. There are taxi stands but they are few and far between.) At the risk of using a well-worn phrase, I will say that Antiche Sere is a...

in from the Strip, they used to live in Fort Worth and said the Hedary’s there was there favorite restaurant; they were thrilled to be at the one here in Vegas. 2. Tofu Hut (3920 Spring Mountain Rd): After 11pm, they have...

. * Choose a good quality blue cheese. Some to look for include Flora Danica Danish Blue, Ireland’s Cashel Blue, Gorgonzola, Maytag Blue, Vermont’s Green Mountain Blue Cheese and Bayley Hazen Blue from Jasper Hill...

You need not spend anywhere near that much to buy a truly EXCELLENT bottle of Zinfandel. Check out — Ridge Vineyards http://www.ridgewine.com/ — Storybrook Mountain http://www.storybookwines.com/ — Storrs Winery...

Ok – some of you won’t talk to me now :) I never got into the Starbucks coffee a day habit. I heard a story on the radio once that if you buy 4-5 a week, you could’ve invested that money and by the time you...

a local radio station. ($35.49, 3.5 Forks) Casa Cocina Eastside Cannery http://www.eastsidecannery.com/Restaurants_Lounges/dining_casacocina.htm We started off with Mango Margaritas (4 Sips), the obligatory salsas and chips and a...

. No disrespect to anyone, we all have our own priorities, and activites we enjoy may differ. Even better than Mountain View is Skaggs Springs/Stewart Point Road. That is a thing of beauty. Warm Indian Summer day, top down on the...

leak, there has been no serious flooding. The sun is out this morning and I can see the mountains for the first time in days....Glorious! I heard on the radio this a.m. that the mountains took a harder hit that we did. Seems there...

-fed beef country, after all) and perfectly grilled walleye fillet, the only sort-of-local non-beef choice. They’ve also got rocky mountain oysters, if you need to try 'em.

frozen Sara Lee and the stuff in Safeway’s bakery. And ... ... don’t get me started. I worked almost a year in Walnut Creek ... I’m a city girl. Hmmm ... I was just thinking about this ... why isn’t there...

, Rafanelli, Robert Biale, Rosenblum Cellars, Saddleback Cellars, Spelletich Cellars, Storrs Winery, Storybrook Mountain, T-Vine Cellars, Turley Wine Cellars, Unti Vineyards, and Venge Vineyards, among others. Cheers, Jason

, of course). We then proceeded to Johnson’s Oyster Farm and picked up a sack of oysters (Drake and Hog Island are other possibilities). Typically, the oyster farms themselves are teeming with people (read: loud people with...