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8) Grand Sichuan 33/34 Lex location....our current hang out of this "chain", when its on its ON!!
But sadly I am feeling MSG is not good for the body, so I am going to have to rething this place for 07....
stone ipa (hoppy holidays!)
who are you calling a knob of butter?
9) Tommaso's 86th St Brooklyn.....great priced old wines plus when Chef Tom is cooking for you it can be quite excellent home-style hearty regional Italian....
The Top 10 Countdown to Best Meal NYC 2006.....
10) Minca 536 East 5th St---home made ramen noodles and fatty pork, amazing broths....
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Food notes from NOLA:
nice view, but what if you have to pee?
hendricks farms & dairy
im out in bucks co again for a couple of days. any one want anything from here?
I got a recommendation to eat at Bayona in NOLA.
Any other recommendations? (I will be travelling with D, a lacto-ovo-vegetarian who refuses to believe that the lower mollusks are hard to distinguish from plants.)
cupcake bake shop
How to carve a turkey.
emergency baking ingredient substitutions
via USDA intranet
fresh direct recently added a useful tool to their website -- shopping by recipe. all ingredients can easily be purchased on the same page the recipe appears.
had my first fizzy lizzy which i enjoyed.
how feasible is it that farmers are going to be using cloned animals for milk and meat production? i wouldn't think that would even be an option, cost-wise. but still, it's a little unsettling to have it going for FDA approval since there must be a lot more in the works for this kind of thing if it's going through. very creepy.
saw some odd numbers on my fresh direct invoice this morning. called in to complain but they assured me the numbers were high due to some credit card authorization bs. so i waited and waited. my delivery came 45 minutes late and 2 pounds heavy, or light actually.
the weight on the aspargus said 2.48lbs. i had ordered 1lb. i got 1lb but was charged for 2.48. i had a similar problem with the onions in my order. fortunately, like every good cook, i have a scale handy. fuckers reimbursed me but i should have made more of a stink and got some freebies.
Okay, sure, the Guinness really is superior here in Ireland. But I have to admit I've shifted my attention a bit more to the whiskey. The bar at the Brooks Hotel has, they argue, the best selection in all of Ireland. Despite my efforts it wasn't possible to sample them all, but I took quite a liking to the Green Spot. I've never seen it in NYC, but I usually don't drink whiskey there, so maybe it's not a find. Still I might bring back a bottle just in case. Smooth.
spence vineyards of howell mountain in the nappa
my old friend allen spence is making excellent wine in his garage and my brother is his graphic designer and this is their new website.