the exception in my experience. I think it’s easy to get caught up in the spirit of the Farmer’s Market.

If the kitchen has, for example, white rice with dish A and brown rice with dish B (this happens a lot with fusion restaurants), they’re both sitting in steamer kettles in the kitchen, probably both at the same station on...

-product, there are cases where that is not necessarily the case. On the spirits board, you’ll see comments that some gins are the best for drinking by themselves, while others lend themselves better to being mixed. There...

I found this elimination challenge so odd in that all contestants weren’t participating. Why would they give immunity to 5 people and force the other 5 to duke it out? I don’t think I’d be in much of a...

people don’t make the best dim sum. Rest of my social outings (for about a year) was a chain of disappointments laden with guilt. Ever took a chain loving, Subway gorging white person to a Korean restaurant? The lady...

if it comes in a coctel de camaron from a mariscos truck than if it’s served on china and white linen. The funny thing is, the guy in the mariscos truck is probably more likely than the line cook at the nice restaurant to...

, and you don’t have the capacity issues that you have with food (as long as you know when to shut someone off). And, if you think that the markup on wine is high, it’s nothing compared to the markup on spirits and...

and similar other chains, with all the other fifty gabillion middle-aged white people that are there. I should have known, she’s not what you call an epicure and was in the middle of an alcoholic decline to boot, but the...

It would depend. As I said above, lots of things go into a dish besides the cost of the raw ingredients. If, for example, I were to order a hot dog at a 3 star white tablecloth restaurant, I would know that what I was paying for...

, but I honestly can’t taste the blue cheese. The Fried Green Tomatoes are the BEST- next time I come, I’m ordering 3 plates for myself. Raw oysters are plump and perfect with the tail sauce the shucker mixes up. And...

cooked to a crisp and charred black something you dimly recognise as toast. they’ll do this with pride, and expect a tip. that about sums it, in spirit if not detail, with the usual dining scene. having said all of that,...

-enthic splendor of Devon, etc. Yet because Western is part of nothing, it is part of everything. We knew that we could travel this street and visit Black and White, old and new, Polish and Puerto Rican. No street better says...

son has been going to restaurants since he was born. He has been taught how to behave at home and in public and he is a very pleasant dining companion. I still would not take him to a white tablecloth restaurant at any time. It...

with wine, not food. In 1969-70, while living in Washington, D.C., I had the good fortune to discover a wine shop named Mayflower Wines & Spirits. The proprietor’s name was Aaron Millman. I told him that I wanted to learn...

jfood... I’m hope you take this in the spirit in which I mean it. I’m just stating my opinion. These are mostly kids, they don’t comprehend the concept of “tip percentage expectations ” or...