than others? I love Deborah Madison's Carmelized Onion Frittata with toasted Walnuts and finished with a bit of sherry vinegar. You can do a brothy lentil soup (canned chix stock) with sauteed onion and curry powder, bit of diced...

It is that I have found a relevant part in the Wisconsin area. As far as Irish not being relevant, well you must take a trip to Boston my friend. Obvious reasons that French and Mexican as you mention are such an influence to...

cooking competence (the pallid offerings of university catering would force anyone into the kitchen)... think of it as them learning their own way around the kitchen.

vegetables and in a restaurant they always had lots rather than just the two we had with dinner and they always tasted a little different and good. My first vegetable plates (when I was about 6) were at Longchamps up on Madison...

Avoid places: Where the waiter a) introduces himself by name b)Insists on sitting at the table with you to explain the menu c) writes his name on the newsprint tablecloth with crayons. Have cute madison ave. type names for all their...

. 4. Forget the search engine, you can’t even remember what you read in these threads a couple of week later. I remember Josh’s University Avenue thread, Chris Mitra’s “Little Szechuan is back”...

As I am one of the few (I thought the only at first!) who is not a fan of PP, I did grow up with a particular taste that lingers until today: the original Ledo’s on University Boulevard West in Hyattsville. Absolutely...

Wow! You may be my twin in an upside-down opposite parallel universe. Let’s see: I don’t ever mind using Muir Glen fire-roasted canned tomatoes if garden fresh are not available. Never seed or peel tomatoes. If the...

be the best dish in the house. Erawan (729 N. Clark) - I have not been here either, but it also completes in the fine dining Thai catagory. Somewhere pricewise between Amerind and Arun. Yum Thai (7748 W. Madison, Forest Park) -...

of Manhattan offer French-Alsacians (of great quality).god help you if you are stuck on Madison Avenue and wish for decent Shanghai or Taiwanese cuisine.

I too have taught cooking classes and when when I worked as an in-store home economist in the university town I currently live in I was amazed by some of the questions I was asked. My role in the supermarket was to assist the...

and there is otherwise intelligent life in this universe which professes to enjoy them doesn’t for one minute alter their nastiness. "Yes, there are some tried and true combinations of wine, food and spirits, but to say...