that tastes good – just like CHs do – and they love that something sounds a little fancy and they can serve it for company or a special meal. Tomatoes on toast sounds sooooo ordinary while Bruschetta – ah!...

My grill pan. We have our gas grill right outside the back door, hooked to the gas line, so it’s always ready, and we use it several times a week. I need to get rid of that thing. It’s just hanging there, collecting...

Although I thankfully don’t have to do it any more, for about two decades I travelled alone, just about every week. I probably dined alone about one night in three. There’s nothing unusual about being a party of 1 and...

a motley group if there ever was one. I decided to cook a nice buffet meal after a week or more of planning. Everything turned out the way I wanted, and I was sure that I had covered my bases regarding the different preferences...

with a custard center, pork buns, sweet buns, almond cookies, black bean nut bars, etc. I could go on and on. Every item is excellent. Cheap too! Whenever I visit my Dad in Maine, I make it a special point to arrive at Boston...

with a great roof-top view and decent drinks. I tried their "special" cuitlacoche soup and was blown off my hinges. What their “Mexican bouillabaise” lacked in depth was more than compensated for in seafood ... the...

Amen; it’s like condemning an Italian restaurant that specializes in Sicilian cuisine for not serving polenta.

Al Di La (which is attacked for having lacklustre specials and bad service), Patsy’s in East Harlem (criticized for being a cheesy ‘red sauce’ joint), Pongal (south Indian harshed out for no good reason...this...

a bunch of dog houses, but none from Chicago yet. My trip next week is intended to rectify that. Plus get some Italian Beef and hit some other Chicago institutions. I also crave chicken fried steak which is why I included...

. Thai Aree grills the best steaks, and they are my choice for various steak salads. I also crave their “Thai baba ganoush”, their off menu version of nam prik*. A lot of other things at Thai Aree, I find not as...

farmers should have special dispensation to run businesses that don’t make economic sense. They fret about wasting our planet’s scarce resources while they jet about to their restaurant openings and celebrity events....

? Any experience with the Cake Bible Recipes? Suggestions for good flavor combinations? (I’m covering with buttercream and rolled fondant, but I haven’t decided on the flavors yet) Please don’t tell me I will be...

were looking for something not only visually stunning but great tasting as well. This was a special occasion dinner for people we really care about, and we wanted to go all out. We were not dissapointed. Neuhaus seems to be heavy...

I am always so disappointed when there is no chicken liver in the whole chicken! We had 4 chickens that we deep fried a couple weeks ago, and only one had the liver in it! Bummer! We were at my daughter’s and I pulled out a...

wine on the table than to make him/her feel singled out. If nobody’s drinking wine, then it doesn’t become an issue – no special treatment and no temptation. And it’s certainly no tragedy for the hosts to...