Suppose there should be a new thread for what’s currently available. Land O Lakes butter is back - $2.49 lb Breyers organic ice cream (vanilla or coffee) $2.99 quart Earthbound farms Organic prunes (dried plums). MAJOR deal -...

... plus a lot of food maps like Bay Area European Food, North Bay Farms, Salinas Taco Trucks, etc, etc. Most people don’t follow the links, but the map is there if anyone is interested. It was for me to avoid the calories of a...

there for. Bear in mind that the area isn’t really a walking neighborhood — more of a commercial strip. Not that you can’t walk around there, of course, but it’s not exactly strolling territory. A few recs:...

would not have probably liked places like Slanted Door either. The more you eat out the more you develop a taste and appreciation for better food. At 18 I thought wine meant Boone’s Farm. The poster slammed the wine list at...

Call Il Grano first :) As an aside I’m surprised more allegainces aren’t formed between shop & restaurant in this regard. It’s a nice symbiotic marketing tool that works for the consumer a swell. If anyone should...

I agree with previous posters. Silver Pig and Cowling’s are pretty good. Sadly, the best one of 'em all, Wallace Brothers Barbecue in Lambsburg, closed two years ago.

of canned chili (yes, it’s one of my guilty pleasures) is on club card sale at the time. Oh, and Knudsen cottage cheese—Berkeley Farms and Trader Joe’s aren’t nearly as good.

. There’s a place called Sumsushi further up the hill between Chalk Farm and Belsize where you can get decent noodles and sushi rolls for normal prices, mainly takeout though (sumsushi.co.uk). Most of these are lunchtime...

At Oakland: Imported Italian honey — chestnut and “high mountain” — $1.79 for 500 gm. Hidden in the snack/condiment aisle at Oakland, didn’t look like they had much. Also peach and strawberry jam from...

farms grilled pork leg with sausage, polenta and slow cooked peas. When it came to the table, my husband remarked that it looked like a tv dinner. The pork leg looked and tasted like cold cuts. The sausage had an extremely coarse...

character is a beautiful, slight woman with a prodigious appetite. In the non-fiction category, I immediately thought of the title piece of “Consider the Lobster: and Other Essays”, by David Foster Wallace....

advertisers, and maybe that monthly-mag restaurant critic is giving special consideration to his friends in the industry." Compelling, entertaining writing — "I don’t care if it’s a review of dishwashing liquid...

all the great food writing published there. Bon Appetit is fine, but it really isn’t the same—they weren’t publishing David Foster Wallace essays, to be sure.. Between this and my wife’s favorite mag...

. Finally used up the last of the one panettone I didn’t like by making French toast out of it .. topped with the organic Coombs Family Farms maple syrup. The French toast treatment worked and the maple syrup was good ......