. Certainly in my experience, things are casual – good quality food, with good friends who can say – hey we brought this bottle of wine we’d all like to try, why don’t we open it? As long as they’re...

, brown or yellow grilled kielbasa on rye with mustard If I make tuna salad, I add celery, mayo, olives, relish, maybe carrots, but I can’t make it as good as my grandpa. We’d stop off the highway and eat at a picnic...

of town) - Tableside Caesar salads with actual eggs (and mashed anchovies) - Going to the markets with my roomate where we’d look at stuff and have the following conversation, “You ever heard of this?”,...

everything from scratch when I was a kid, we had a garden, my grandparents were farmers, we’d bring home butchered meat every time we visited. Most of this was because we were rather poor, but she was very concerned about...

abf005 - I think we’d all agree that texas has some great q. I have an uncle in the dfw area that I visit every chance I get so’s I can get me somma that q – trust me, I know 1st hand that Texas has great q. I...

for ourselves whether to agree with it or not. In fact, we’d have to decide for ourselves even if the opinion was made after the food was tasted.

Sometime I’m going to have to write an essay about my honeymoon. We live outside of Washington, D. C. but were married in Malibu and our wedding meal was off the hood of a rental LeBaron convertible at the Tommy’s on...

that we’d be sharing our dishes. Thus, we would all order 5 courses and just rotate during each course. One problem from that is that my memory of several of the dishes is a bit weaker than the other places. But at least...

Exactly. If I don’t want to get married, does that mean I don’t know how to cook for a wedding reception? Cooking is cooking. You don’t have to know anything about football to understand that the challenge was...

to know that a sauce was too salty, a piece of fish too dry or a piece of duck so succulent and delicious that you think about it for days afterwards. Further, it requires, as we’d discussed earlier, no training to know...

Would you wear jeans and old sneakers to your best friend’s wedding? Probably not ... I hope. I don’t think that a jacket and tie requirement is in and of itself pretentious. Most of the times that I have seen diners at...

Duly noted re: Taqueria la Oaxaquena. It happens to be handy to us location-wise, so it’s a definite. I’m still mad at myself for scheduling our trip so that we’d have to leave before getting to the Maxwell St....

and by this time her section was packed (we’d forgotten about the big B-ball game. I’m a football fan myself). SO after she ran by us a couple of times, I went to the wait station and got the wrapped silverware...

Many thanks! After we’d eaten, I asked our waitress, who I think might be one of the owners, what she recommended on the board for next time. She seemed very proud of the yellow fur chicken and the quail. You know I’ve...

My husband and I went to the Thirsty Scholar for dinner a couple of Wednesdays ago, and had fine drinks, good pub food, hot & not congealed nachos & attentive service. It was pretty empty, as it was mid-week & relatively early,...