it is just myself and a boyfriend, I tend to make everything from scratch and so are a lot of the things I make for my tail and dinner parties. I love food network, I rarely buy cookbooks anymore – I either print free ones...

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and we sort of got into the spirit of commiserating with the other diners in our section, who were either not served, served the wrong things, or served cold food. We ended up paying for 4 entrees only, and obviously not leaving...

SKU, thank you for finally bringing in some grounded words to this thread. I’ve been a bit perplexed reading through all these spirited remarks, but by definition, I would think that any city/town is great chowhounding...

always start off really fun and then she’d have 5 too many tails and it would just turn into a train wreck. We tried the tactful approach but she didn’t get it. I’m usually the bad cop in my little cicrcle, so I...

Well, I’ve never spent a few hundred dollars on a bottle of wine nor would I ever want to, but I don’t begrudge those who do. Food is more of a priority for me, plus I’ve had what I thought were pretty amazing...

a bit differently, than the others. I would hazard a guess that these were group leaders, or Secret Service operatives. Our waiter arrived, introduced himself and presented our party of four with menus. He took our water order...

Serving less expensive food doesn’t make you a bad host, just like serving caviar doesn’t make you a good host. It’s about the spirit of the thing (generosity, ideally) and the company. I have no problem with...

” or whatever it is you’d like to drink. I asked you a question, please answer it and then we’ll move on to tails. 3.) The eye contact thing goes both ways. If you’re looking into your menu and muttering your order a.) I can’t...