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Four Days in Vegas: Twelve Meals, Eleven different restaurants reviewed.
. Arriving at Table 10, one immediately notices the staunch contrast to Delmonico’s white/wood/elegant setting with the fancy wrought iron gates out front and multiple colored tables, televisions, and wide open kitchen....
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What Etiquette Do You Expect of Your HOST?
's on tv (or whatever other excuse he can think of)" and leave the kitchen. He should also refuse all of SIL’s attempts to get him back. It will be hard to leave with the kitchen full of dishes and a SIL who is expecting...
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PEASANT - good food, RUDE CREW!
the food there, but they have lots of tvs and really cold beer- so it is a good place to go and watch sports. I usually end up with a salad or fries – as I don’t even like the baked potatoes at this place!
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Am I just an ugly American?
If you think Greek time and Hawaiian time are bad, Brazil time is worse. My son got married in Brazil and the church was empty at 7 when the wedding was supposed to start. Everyone showed up at 8. Even the tv shows do not start...
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MSP – Getting excited about overpriced mediocre food?
to local places and not chains. It’s a little bit for selfish reasons, but it’s mainly to expand their culinary horizons – especially if I know they eat TV dinners at home. Some of the kids love it and...
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Moving to Porter Square
Newtowne has food? I’ve actually been inside, a l i c e, and think I can hang with the best (or worst of them). I’ll try the pizza and report back. Never had the food at Spirit either, but the big tvs are nice (and...
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What's the deal with chopsticks?
On a Frugal Gourmet TV show, an elderly Chinese gourmet declared that the Chinese a couple of thousand years ago ate with a fork, but gave it up in favor of chopsticks. Another item: one time I had dinner with a Chinese-American...
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What to do about bad hosts?
are always really light on food; a catered milestone birthday party with out of town guests was more along the lines of just appetizers, a SuperBowl party with host-provided bar, held in a lavishly decorated game room with...
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Dieting Dilemmas
very hungry. Could just be me, but if I’m sitting around watching TV the hunger pangs are almost overwhelming. If that hits, I go for a Diet Pepsi. Or a drive. Don’t sweat a screwup. We’re all going to fall off...
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What is your deal breaker?
Do you want to know my deal-breaker, the one thing that makes me fling books and magazines savagely across the room to bop the TV just as Tony Bourdain is encouraging me to try fried insects? I’m diabetic and way too heavy....
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Weight Watchers "Core" vs. "Points" Plans
sprouts while watching tv in the evening....
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Using your credit card at Restaurants
is what the TV news is all about and next up is the Visa advertisement where someone’s day is saved by...
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What are your favorite kitchen myths?
Referencing the “Mythbusters” television show (which always halts my channel surfing!), the five second rule was proven wrong. To quote the results... "They found that the amount of bacteria that was picked up depended...
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La Luncheonette
was it to know they were there. It was a joint. Just a joint. It had to be a joint. The Manhattan location showed everybody that. It was a joint that always had a small tv on at the cornor table next to the beer and soda box....
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What's the Most Time Consuming Thing You Have Ever Cooked?
my grapes in the yard, growing just a hundred yards form the hickory tree. I was feeling TOTALLY the slow-food, seasonal, local, organic, macrobiotic, Alice-Waters-channeling, domestic genious. Well...it took me TWO evenings...
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