Pains Were Taken

Two NPR stories demonstrate how far food-lovers will go in pursuit of perfection.

Super Bowl Sunday has arrived. Crack open a beer and some chips and celebrate.

Dinner saturday night needs to have a tV in the bar so friends can keep tabs on the game. Location not a big deal, but upper west side preferable. Price not that much of an issue. Ouest is booked already. French or Italian best

I cannot do subtitles during dinner, Food comes first! I love watching food tv on Saturdays while on the treadmill, i always get great dinner ideas and often make them that night! What did we do before food tv?

I am looking for a restaurant/bar that is affordable, has decent food, and has TVs at the bar for dinner Thursday night with a friend – can anyone help recommend a place to go? Here are my preferred parameters. The TV is...

I ate dinner with the TV on and my laptop on my lap.

Is anyone else perturbed by the unappetizing way TV judges practically lie in their plates of food, and with both forearms on the table, bob their heads down to the plate and shovel something into their mouths? I was taught to...

of like wife swap. I still like the old show where they give two teams the same market basket of food & they have to come up with a dinner. How YOU have at it.

I saw a single episode of a show that was like IFC’s "Dinner for Five" with a group of Asian-American actors and other Hollywood professionals (including Daniel Dae Kim and I think also Yoon-jin Kim) all having dim sum. I...

color and “needs work”, so not too critical. Did some interviews including the Bambara chef. Made a comment about how they won’t be doing anything with fast food. The one real twist is that a chosen TV Diner...

I wouldn’t probably bother to post this except that the Rustic Hut in Burkhardt Wisconsin remodeled itself into Connellys Irish Pub and the remodel will be featured on one of those cable TV shows this St Patricks Day. The...

Any suggestions for a place to meet my dad for dinner and Dodger games somewhere between Silver Lake and Calabasas (i.e., in the Valley)? Anything along Ventura would be fab. (A couple of years ago some Hounds suggested the...

for a formal dinner. I also have bundles of decent Chinese bamboo ones and packages of the cheap Japanese disposable ones. I’m a NY’er and never saw anyone eat out of the containers except on TV or when you get a...

(particularly for 'School Dinners') Ina Garten Bobby Flay (in small doses, and only recently — he’s less of an ass than he used to be. But, then again, I haven’t seen him on this new competitve show (smash down?))...

Looking for new shows to tivo. What are your favorite food (cooking or about food) tv shows?