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    Where to get Sake in/around Philly?

    in Pennsylvania: Cooking & Baking

    Posted

    From the PLCB web site:

    "SLO" or "Special Liquor Order" products can be ordered by one of our Wine & Spirits Specialists. To place an SLO order, e-mail ra-lbslo@state.pa.us or call 1-800-332-PLCB. Please include your daytime phone number in your e-mail, so that we may contact you to complete the order. (A deposit must be placed upon a credit card, and at this time we do not have a secure site to take these orders.)

    A while back, I ordered something by visiting one of the stores. I didn't need the ID#. They looked it up for me.

    Not quite wine drinking

    in Wine

    Posted

    From a three year old BBC article on the passing of Freddy Heineken.

    Click here.

    He developed a square beer bottle that he believed could be used as a brick to help solve environmental pollution and housing shortages in developing countries.

    Heineken management disagreed, rejecting the "World Beer" bottle.

    Sriracha

    in Ready to Eat

    Posted

    When I'm making red sauce for pasta, I add Sriracha because it's got that garlic and a little extra zip going for it. For the same reasons, it goes well on pizza.

    Ray's the Steaks

    in D.C. & DelMarVa: Dining

    Posted

    My wife and I were in the D.C. area for a few days and we tried to hit a couple of the places that I have been reading about on this board. We went for burgers, BBQ, Mexican and steaks. Only two places blew our hair back.....Taqueria Poblano and Ray's The Steaks.

    About 45 or 50 years ago, my father first introduced me to the pleasure of a good piece of beef at Peter Luger's in Brooklyn, so Michael (now clean shaven) Landrum wasn't gettin' my cherry. The medium-rare piece of dead, animal flesh that I had at RTS was great. I wasn't hungry (still stuffed from lunch) and I still relished every bite. The sides were great too. Thank you, Michael.

    Iron Chef America (Part 1)

    in Food Media & Arts

    Posted

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    Although , I do feel anyone who wears shorts in a kitchen ( Batali ) or wears a tight dress ( Batali's female sous chef ) while working on food and is a professional, should have lost. ( I did find it funny ( and well deserved )  when Mario's sous chef with the tight dress/ skirt, was flinching when the hot oil was shooting out from the fryer while she was deep frying the churros :biggrin: )

    A tight skirt/dress is great for the night club or a date, but not for kitchen stadium. - unless she was trying to catch someone's eye :blink:

    Jason

    That's why I love this place. You guys are such kidders. I almost took you seriously, Jason.

    Patchogue, LI, NY

    in New York: Dining

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    It was an enjoyable day.  I get a kick out of how the relatively new Secaucus Junction station in Jersey makes for virtually seamless train connections that get you in to Penn Station & out to eastern LI in about two hours total.  No traffic headaches, no tunnels & bridges to navigate.

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    Thank you for your report. I really don't feel as if I live in a culinary wastelend or half-a-million miles from culture, but, maybe that's me.

    I would like to add something about your comment on transportation. Recently, I found myself at JFK Terminal #4 at about 1:30 AM, trying to find a ride home to Suffolk County. My brother always tells me to call at anytime, day or night. He'll wake up his wife and send her. I demured and called a local, "classic" service from a transportation kiosk. They told me that they had no service till 4:30 AM. When I asked what I could do, the dispatcher told me to sit there and call back at 4:30 AM. One of the airport denizens tried to sell me a ride to my destination for $133.13. Hell.... a limo ride only costs $70. I politely asked him to cop a mope. I hadn't flown into JFK (been using EWR and LGA) in a while and I was unaware of the Airtrain. Got a brochure. Read the rules. Went upstairs. Got on a train. Was in Jamaica in 15 minutes. A delightful LIRR employee (should have got her name..... really a pleasure) showed me how to use the machine to pay for my ride on the Airtrain and the LIRR with my credit card. Caught the 2:06 AM to Babylon. Taxi ride to the door. I was home at 3:00 AM for under $15.

    Check out the Airtrain. It's free to go from terminal to terminal at the airport and only $5 to go to the LIRR at Jamaica, Queens. There are other connections, but they didn't interest me.

    Home Coffee Roasting

    in Coffee & Tea

    Posted

    At the risk of ruining a birthday surprise, I would ask her if she is interested in trying the home roasting process and all it entails. You could wind up with another appliance, in a cardboard box, in a cabinet, somewhere.

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