Gifted Gourmet

You took the shrimp and grits right outta my mouth on this suggestion ... had been mulling it over for the entire day .. thanks!! I may go back again myself!!

Minado, or something of that ilk, no doubt ... Atkinsing people would not eat the rice and did precisely what you have described .... and it is why the owners inevitably have to say or post something ... stands to reason ...

eGullet as "agent provocateur"?? subtitle? ... a little knowledge is a dangerous thing??? Not in my eyes ... more and more, eG!!

A senior citizen?? What ever happened to "sixty is the new forty!"??

I blame everything on those Bronfmans and their damned Seagrams line ... so how about that for victimhood??

HBO has made a small fortune off death and not all of it is exactly serious ... and your statement about crying versus happy? aren't the two choices possibly related? Can't one cry in pain and rejoice in past happy times at the very same moment??

Too bad it is in Alaska would have loved to try it!!

NolaFoodie, It is the very irony of the story that fascinates the general public because it follows far too close upon the heels of the media frenzy surrounding the "dropping of supersizing" stories and the like ... so, one's first impression is that clearly there is a connection between the "hype" and the individual .... clearly, time and an autopsy will be a more reliable resource than these initial hysteria-laden reports ....

He was very much into fitness, CNBC reports today, and probably had something entirely different happening inside his arteries .... but it will, of course, be blamed upon all things associated with their products ....

This ought to bring out all of the shadenfreude people, yet once again ... very sad .... should be merged with today's thread on the French love of McDonald's link here ...

...no wonder the customers are complaining about cold food... You mean one has to defrost it? That they never show on television!!

Rocco alleges that Chodorow's henchmen "fired the pasta makers" and have "substituted frozen pasta in the Restaurant's dishes." Aha! Under the steaming legal mountain of verbiage!! Buried .... in marinara ... There it is ... the true smoking gun in this brouhaha ..... frozen pasta? Heaven forfend! damages awarded to Rocco, case dismissed ....

I assure you, Blais is worth every single drop of gasoline you will burn to come to Atlanta to experience this phenomenon .. trust me on this ...

Sweet matzo brie simply doesn't work for me at all .. rather, I enjoy savoury, salami-enhanced (or hot dogs if that is on hand), mushroomy, green peppery, and onion-laden matzo brie, golden hued and crisped at the edges, custardy within ... but I am so tired of matzos by now that it may well be Tisha b'Av before I can look those critters in the eye again (I know, no food on this day! and no eyes on the over-anthropomorphized matzo!!)

I read this article in today's NYT and came away with the distinct impression I have always held on Lidia Bastianich: namely, that she is one very sharp business person as well as being an inspiring and accomplished chef ... I enjoy her direct and forthright, very perceptive answers, to this discussion and, since she has personal knowledge of the real Rocco, not just his exaggerated screen persona, she seems to have zeroed in on the most salient points in the review ... Happily looking forward to future and continuing discussion from these four people ...

Wasn't that the link I posted here above?

Same to you, extra MSG ... I plan to visit Portland once again myself this summer and will print out your list here ... so, what goes around, comes around ....thanks too!!

I think she has "filtered" her response here ...

How about looking over these leads? http://www.design-schools-directory.com/sommelier-school.htm https://www480.ssldomain.com/internationals...tep2=1&c_mode=3

Precisely why I posted it!! It has various hidden, and not-so-hidden meanings, depending upon one's age, I rather imagine!!

If you are that impressed, a fellow Atlantan would love to hear the details of this restaurant in the Southeastern Forum of eG ....

One final, and it is final this time, note on this holiday ... From this morning's Garrison Keillor show on NPR ... "Mommy, today at school we ate square crackers and celebrated the Jewish holiday of Pass Out!"

Katie, thanks once again for a superb sig line! Shouldn't I begin to pay you royalties for this intellectual property you're giving away free??? Now I can see why they don't call you Levitra Loeb for nothing!! Must stop laughing.....belly hurts. I think it is from your mil's Seder meals and the pounds of matzo you consumed last week, bloviatrix, so I hereby disclaim any knowledge and intent of causing you intestinal discomfort ... so help me G-d!!

Seltzer? Schmaltz? This is beginning to sound like a bad parody of the "Borscht Belt"!! Kutscher's anyone??

Katie, thanks once again for a superb sig line! Shouldn't I begin to pay you royalties for this intellectual property you're giving away free??? Now I can see why they don't call you Levitra Loeb for nothing!!