're having a small wedding 30-40 people and are looking for a post-wedding banquet. Our short list is as follows: — Empress Pavilion — Ocean Star — That other “Empress” next to Ocean Star... never eaten...

on their site are wedding-fancy and weddingexpensive-around $42 pp, not counting tip. I might call to see if they can do a custom (cheaper) menu, minus the shark fin soup and baked lobster.

as a Brit in the US we are having traditional English Christmas dinner – of course no Queen’s speech at 3pm. But it’s always turkey in the UK – with sausages roasted round it (though I can’t find the...

<<Because something is widely accepted never makes it right.>> Actually it does it make it right. The OED will take in new meanings of existing words wih no problem. Speech patterns change with each generation and with...

on various comments, I did expect Brian would be the one going home. And finally – with the “Why you should stay and be one of the Final 3” speeches from all 4 of them – Dale, Casey, and Hung were so...

Unfortunately, my impression went downhill fast. Intro – After the usual “Hi, my name is...” sentence, the server gets to rattle off a prepared speech about how the place is “Warm and inviting” with...

them whether they’ve cleared it or not. Finally, her use of Yiddish: As embee notes, the use of borrowed words is considered perfectly proper in English. Has no one here ever used “etc.”, “i.e.”, or...

, about 2 ounces once trimmed of fat. No sauce, no salt or pepper available. 1/8th of a coil of lamb sausage (the coil was scored so we’d know where to cut it in the eight pieces) Served on a few veggies—my share was...

We needed to do a major cull when we just ran out of shelf space. The ones we kept were the ones we regularly use or needed to keep for that one recipe that you only cook once every two years or “souvenirs” we’d...

three hours and 45 minutes. I left at 10:15, before we’d seen any sign of the promised garlic spinach, mashed sweet potatoes, pecan pork loin or even the crawfish dip and bread. It was an insane amount of time for dinner....

way. The trip gives us a great excuse to get a deeper understanding of these wines. So, the question is, how do we approach it? We’d love some advice on how to get our arms around the topic. Thoughts?

I had enough of Paula after the wedding thing on tv. I could not bring myself to watch the Europe show...the previews turned me off.

Depends on the place. Usually, staff gets scraps, leftovers, whatever is cheap or needs to be gotten rid of. At one French place, we always got the trimmings from the turned potatoes, usually deep fried. At another place,...

for Uncle Steve’s white bread recipe from his parent’s village bakery. so, please, hounds, WRITE IT DOWN. For my part,I’ve made copies of my favorite recipes as wedding gifts and included traditional family...

one of his recipes, though with so many alterations he’d probably disclaim it. Somehow we’d never been to the cafe downstairs, so we dropped in for a light lunch. I shared a grilled ham and cheese sandwich and a salmon...