Cooking Light is great, I would highly recommend them. What kind of sushi rolls are you trying to make? There are so many kind, California, futo maki, kappa maki, whatever. California rolls are avocado, and crab (or fake...

“If there are no treats there to be purloined, I would think they would stop.” Ah, but there is the rub. Imagine a chocolate lab ingesting a foil wrapped stick of butter left on the counter,near the back splash, to...

Walter Scheib was the White House chef for that Vicente Fox State Dinner. He’s written a book about his experiences there and included a lot of great recipes. Don’t know if that Red Chili Pepper Tequila Sabayon is...

Thank God Marisa is out! What a waste of space & what a waste of an opportinity on her part. Yes..she thinks she’s a great pastry chef(which I had yet to see)but with the exception of maybe 2 things all she made was...

” and is usually near where visitors are likely to go. 2) LINKS to hundreds of posts on a much broader range of cuisines and areas of this great city than the average tourist (or indeed most residents) will ever see. Happy...

The cuisine was Swiss. The group menu: Appetizer: cheese fondue with bread main: choice of beef, chicken, or chinese fondue (some were broth and some were oil based) Dessert: chocolate fondue with a few pieces of fruit and one...

20 mins early on a regular basis you’re going to get a reputation for erratic late night hours and your late customers (read— other restaurant staff just getting off work—i.e. great customers) will stop coming.

Where would we be without Skinny Cow?! (Sometimes I wonder if they lie about the points.) And Pirate’s Booty was the perfect low point snack food until they increased the fat and lowered the fiber. My other favorites: Santa...

& skinny with a firm texture). Does this sound familiar to anyone? I am hoping that someone can recommend a local place for me to try close to Fremont or somewhere in the S.F. Bay Area. Any assistance is greatly appreciated :)...

Cantonese or Szechuan food. There are many wonderful books available on the regional cuisines of france and Italy.

"butter is worth the price, for example" Amen to that. More with less is a great book, too!

Creams from Dunkin Donuts, and I used to love the chocolate crullers too, but the jerks eliminated them. Also late night chicken fingers from Cappy’s (though I haven’t been back since their re-emergence at their old...

My wife has the same problem. I love to cook, but only when she is there to enjoy it. I love great food, but when left alone I live on delivery pizza, and that is only if I remember to eat dinner. I am not sure that there is...

Having had the great good fortune to visit the Guinness distillery in Dublin – what you get here is vastly different. I don’t really much like beer but I sure liked what I drank there. I believe we were told it...

I grew up with this “phenomenon.” In my case, I believe it was born of two ideas. Firstly, my parents were children during the great depression and this instilled in them the “waste not, want not”...