If all goes well (town stuff), Frankly Burgers & more should be opening the 1st or 2nd week of January 2009. The website will have the menu, directions and store hours within a few days.

the librarians' purchasing decisions. When the book arrives into their system, I’m notified and have first dibs on checking it out for two weeks. In the 5 years I’ve been doing it, over 90% have been purchased....

Since we’re on the subject of cream cheese, try this. Lightly toast a plain or sesame bagel that’s been halved, and then smear it with plain cream cheese. Make a circular moat in your cream cheese, as if to draw a big...

We bring back two dozen NY bagels when we come to visit. Ate our last two a few weeks ago and not coming there til June. We’ll be ready to eat that first one, still warm, pinching off pieces, walking back to the apt. Mmmm.

12 kinds in 1 weekend. That was two weeks ago and she’s added more since then. 1. Honey gingerbread cookies (no molasses). This is a Czech recipe I used for the first time, but similar to dozens of others. They have just...

’t like much at all. I’ll start. Last week, it was late, my daughter needed dinner, and I was driving by JJ Fish on Harlem in Oak Park, so I stopped. I had some okay catfish there a few years ago. This time, I had the...

for a pan that you only use infrequently. BBB had them on sale this week for $20 with a $10 mail-in rebate. Hard to miss at that price.

I like how Sam Fromartz described this as a Circular Firing Squad. I don’t understand what Petrini has to gain by insulting and alienating one of the largest cores of Slow Food supporters in the United States. Perhaps if...

'd overlooked that as well in my planning. Oh well, I put it down to the fact that I screwed up my knee and have had to walk using a cane most of the time for a couple of weeks. Yes! That’s it! I’m injured and...

fried all beef hot dog (Best Brand, but skinless) served on half of a circular pizza bread (like a pita). A double gets you 2 dogs. It is topped off with potatoes, green and red peppers, and onions all fried in the same oil. This...

, a good ol' boy from Louisiana, who has a small cajun restaurant, he makes weekely trips down to cajun country for ingredients for the menu. His roux is as dark as dark chocolate, and makes everything from scratch daily.

. This normally does not happen, as it is I, who is pushing to try this spot, or that. As we had a weekend “off,” we chose Saturday night and an 8:00PM seating. Though they are not (yet) on OpenTable, a quick phone call, about a...

, is working well. But, its very hard to make a buck in the restaurant business with only 8 or 9 tables. We are going there tonight, and go about once a week. We love it there, and he is an amazing chef..... I wish them both lots...

You know, one of the nifty things about Brides Biscuits is that you can make up enough dough and keep it refrigerated for a weeks worth of biscuits.

I don’t disagree, but the fact that you are seeing it on this site is not empiracal evidence that it wasn’t used before this site. It’s circular logic.