's got to taste better. And I agree that most wedding cakes are more for show than for taste. I went to a wedding where the cake looked gorgeous but tasted like yesterday morning’s toast dipped in plaster of Paris and...

A query via email - "i had a quick question for you. someone asked me to suggest a $15 bottle of wine to go with chinese style seafood for their wedding. i told them i’d ask the expert (you), so when you havesome free time,...

I’m fairly new to the Chowhound world but I enjoy reading the posts and find it all very helpful. I’m currently living in NYC and am getting into the nitty gritty now of planning my wedding (next July). I’d love...

Hey everyone looking for wedding locations?

Any rec’s for a decent wedding champagne to be served to guests? And one for the bride/groom table?

wedding so it helps to be sure before you shell out for a ton of cases that you can’t use. If they do let you bring in your own wines, you, personally cannot purchase wine directly from a wholesaler in New York State but...

My fiance and I are both chocoholics. We want to have a dark chocolate and raspberry wedding cake. We even found a recipe and tried it out – yummy! and very rich. Thing is, we really want the exterior of the cake to be...

Looks like hubby and I will be celebrating our wedding anniversary in Hong Kong this year! We’d like to ask for restaurant recommendation for a wonderful dinner – not Chinese or Asian food – anything else goes....

Help me rise to the challenge. I just received a wedding invite for a family member who lives in a semi-rural place, a handful of hours away. There was a slip of paper in the envelope indicating that the reception will be a...

After coming to grips with our catering company charging near $50 a bottle for anything resembling decent wine, my fiancee' and I decided it would be more cost effective and a lot more fun to provide the wine to our wedding...

Ok, perhaps I should explain. We’re throwing a wedding shower for all of us who never had one. Some of us have been married for, like, 30 years; others are in, um, alternative relationships; yet others have never been...

day? We’ve both done the biggest tourist attractions and aren’t interested in the Statue of Liberty and Times Square. We’d rather explore some of the neighborhood foodie places that we haven’t been to yet....

considerable success on that front. We started out with breakfast at the Friendly Toast in Portsmouth, which has become such a favorite for us that we’ve been know to design detours through Portsmouth for just about any...

EXACTLY the ingredients that I describe. As much as anything this is a technique dish but when you get it down you will absolutely WOW your friends or customers. TOASTED PISTACHIO GORGONZOLA DOLCE RISOTTO From Joe Heflin 1 pound...

Friends from DC are having their wedding here in the fall. They are looking for a cool private room available with good food. I’m thinking the room at Mistral would be along the lines of what they have in mind. Anybody have...