For those of you who are having a hard time with Mr. Steingarten, give Margaret Visser – Much Depends on Dinner and The Rituals of Dinner – a read...her voice is considerably quieter but no less interesting. I really... (4 replies, last updated by gordon wing February 27, 2001)

Yes, I am getting addicted to this site. I noticed a book recommendation list, so I am adding my vote for The Man Who Ate Everything, by Jeffrey Steingarten. He is the food critic for, yes, Vogue. Far from advocating Slim-fast,... (1 reply, last updated by David Nadle September 8, 2000)

Multiply your age by X and imagine how much more different, tasteless, cheaper, useless AND SMALLER (while the price is the same or higher) everything is!!! Welcome to capitalism. (11 replies, last updated by burlgurl December 8, 2008)

We ate at Inside last night. Everything was delicious. They actually brought back the Lobster Club sandwich just for this week-end because the man who used to make it at Arcadia and The Lobster Club (Anne Rosenzweig’s... (10 replies, last updated by Maria October 15, 2001)

For 'hounds who stumble across this thread at certain holiday times of the year: Donut Man is generally open 24/7 but not 24/365, as I discovered late one holiday evening. Was it Easter? New Years? Christmas? I can’t... (40 replies, last updated by Das Ubergeek September 4, 2008)

But La Banquise’s poutine doesn’t have foie gras...Not everything at Au Pied is titanic in size – their tartare is definitely not, either. IMHO, the poutine itself is fine for one person, but not large enough to... (3 replies, last updated by Crowtservo November 8, 2009)

In Danny Meyer’s book “Setting the Table” he repeatedly says that he is against servers asking "how is everything?" I tend to agree with him. As a server I come to the tables often, make my presence know and... (52 replies, last updated by danna July 19, 2007)

We ate at home but many of our side dishes came from Central Market. The relief from having to cook everything was most welcome, but quite expensive and not as good as it would have been if home-cooked. The sweet potato casserole... (12 replies, last updated by Javeing December 8, 2008)

I posted on here a long time ago about Horace and Dickey’s who took over from Boyd’s when it moved around the corner from H St., N. E. It’s good but only a shadow of the original Boyd’s which was in the... (22 replies, last updated by flavrmeistr October 26, 2009)

You might want to take a look at the interview posted below. In it, he specifically addresses both health in general and his own health. In particular, this passage: "As a man who has had to address weight issues for a... (48 replies, last updated by Proud2BWLVRebel April 17, 2009)

either get their miso soup with their set dinner at the same time, or before that. I ate at Sushi Sasabune in Oahu 6 years ago, and the waiter said no to a request to my wife who wanted miso soup early on, but was ok to have it at... (472 replies, last updated by K K November 17, 2009)

where, oh where, is this octopus man peace, Tere (16 replies, last updated by HLing April 11, 2003)

, in full awareness of the texture and taste of the fruit and the juice coming out. We ate slowly like that. Each time you look at a tangerine, you can see deeply into it. You can see everything in the universe in one tangerine. When... (22 replies, last updated by kim shook April 8, 2006)

, but it was like putting on prescription glasses for the first time and seeing what the world really looked like. We couldn’t stop ooing and aahing over how good everything tasted. Of course, we bugged the waiter to tell us... (0 replies, last updated by Tom Meg June 30, 2001)

lose it’s charm. I find the stories about the others having met the challenge better than watching Adam challenged. Such as the story of the 83 YO grandmother who ate the 72oz steak. DT (23 replies, last updated by hudsonvalleyfoodblog January 28, 2009)