four lanes of traffic for the taste of a Webers burger. This appears to be a myth ;-) BTW photo’s not mine – it’s off the Weber’s site Link: http://www.webersrestaurants.com Image:...

walked into The Orchard I tried to temper my expectations, not wanting what we can get so easily (and fortunately) to influence our opinions of this place. I mean, one has to realize that we are in the middle of an urban jungle,...

kid; one was clearly better. We only use 100% cotton or linen napkins and wash them in low impact detergent. They get line dried, which is to say hung over our bathroom in our urban two-bedroom department. Dinner party napkins...

about. But your story is different in a couple of ways. First, though I’m sure Myth Busters would have a field day, chopsticks just seem less gross than forks. They don’t go into your mouth and people don’t touch...

I’ve long maintained that, for many people, “central Jersey” is located between Englewood and Wildwood, mostly because few want what they perceive as the stigma of being in “south Jersey” (Pineys!)...

is a part of the foundational myth of this website ;) but the sandwich version. I had chicken (and fresh cheese) inside my beautifully-textured corn “muffin”. $2.99 each at a “Mex-rican” place (but if you...

>>It’s very odd to me that so many people in this thread believe that bread is scarce in Chinese cooking. We know it’s a myth...but we also live in cities with large Chinese populations. Whenever I travel through small...

. But yet the myth persists. I put this in one of those categories meant to make Americans look stupid, like the Hawaiian tourist tradition of peeing on your own leg to prevent bacterial infection.

to cook with “less” of anything. It is “less” relative to the food found in most Filipino restaurants today. I am certain that the tendency to over-salt, and over-sweeten is fairly recent, and is due to...

. You will find some good examples of Mexican and Central American chow and can eat iguana soup if you like, it’s pretty good. Be warned, NorCal burritos are different from SoCal burritos, we tend to favor 'urban food...

expensive than conventionally grown is a myth. Just don’t shop at Whole Foods. Don’t marginalize the role of phytonutrients. The more we learn about them (and our understanding of them is marginal at best), the more we...