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Celebrities, sports stars and doctors seem to be good about investing in risky ideas - any connections?

Ate clams want mussels Ate pork belly with mustard and cranberry beans. Again, a great meal and only spent thirty five dollars inclusive. So much for haiku New baby born Saturday Hi Owen Sundstrom!

Buenos Aires Grill? 2nd and Virginia - replaced Poor Italian Cafe.

It was a good thing she loved the food. I didn't understand her issues with the interior design either. Not as though the restaurant can change the exterior much. Maybe she likes fern bars. Your link works swell. If you want to call it something else - you copy the link into the http:// code button, hit okay, and then enter the new name. It took me a long time to get that instruction.

Because you don't shop with me or my friends? In the past month, I've bought both of these and lamb shanks. And I don't cook meat very often. I guess that makes me not average. Guess we already knew that.

Because chefs in fine restaurants have made them popular.

Baked Quinces beat out baked apples.

Rumor mongering - a whisper only - Tom D - heading for #4? And a cooking school facility.

Was this for yesterday? Other choices would be hotel restaurants - such as Sazerac. But I second Cafe C!

It sounds like they contain almond extract as well as sliced almonds (don't try using whole - it makes it too difficult to slice before the second bake.) A little more info on taste and texture desired will get a better match. Are they crisp and dry - that would mean little or no butter. Are they rich and crumbly - look for a recipe with butter. I'm away from my recipes right now - but Hay Day Cookbook has some nice recipes, as do a ton of magazines and Italian cookbooks. I'll look for specific recipes that use almonds and chocolate dip, but all are variations on the theme and substituting is pretty easy.

At least they left you the car (and keys)! But, oh man, that's so sad. 2004 will have to be better. Best wishes. BigW - you remind me why I was happy at home with my pasta with savoy cabbage and pancetta, and a glass of sparkling. NYE - an excuse to not go out for dinner.

I think a good way to do this would be to get a CSA subscription from a local farm and a good reference/recipe book. (warning, if you don't cook much, or don't cook vegetables much, it'll probably be too much food) I was going to suggest growing them! But this would be an easier introduction. And once you have an abundance of kolarabi or kale, you'll learn a lot about new ways of cooking vegetables.

I'm not playing cards with you.

Thanks, I wish I could do something like that, with a straight face.

Is there a difference between the "documentary C&TCF" and the Gene Wilder movie - Willy Wonka? Here's the remake link: Movie stuff

Ha ha ha...did you know they are planning to remake the movie?

Am I the only one who is wondering how they will know if you buy some colored ones now, and add them to your bag of B&W's in the spring...? Do you suppose they will track the 6 bags?

This, from the Seattle Times, December 28, 2003, of interest. I hope it is okay to quote the entire piece, as the link would have been difficult to decipher. "A truly talented cook can whip up a memorable meal with whatever ingredients life throws her. So it is with Naomi Andrade Smith, a professional chef and amateur historian who mixes her passions for food with a love of history. When we last chatted, Smith's business was booming at Villa Victoria, her Madrona catering and takeout shop, and she was delving deeper into her family's African-American, Mexican and Chickasaw roots. In June, Smith shuttered the tiny storefront in order to move her growing business to a bigger building. But just before closing the deal, she had severe abdominal pain that turned out to be pancreatic cancer. "My stomach hurts me sometimes, but I'm still alive," she said this past fall while recovering from major surgery. Friends brought soup to the woman who before had always cooked for everybody else. "It feels wonderful to accept those gifts," Smith said. Smith won't reopen her business. Instead, she plans to spend time with her daughter and husband and hopes to study anthropology with an emphasis on Afro-Mexican cuisine. "I want to go to Mexico and find out more about my family and why I'm here. I've never gotten my degree, and if not now, when? If I can run a restaurant, getting a degree is going to be like eating candy." — Paula Bock

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Got the last bottle at the local wine shop for $10 (and that's in WA state with its regressive (?) taxation.) Thanks. Will open it next week.

I have 4. Something's wrong with this picture.

Oh boy, a challenge. Where have you eaten them in Seattle? Can we hope someone will come up with a good version? They sell them at Gelatiamo, but I don't recall trying them. Otherwise, Remo's or DeL's, neither of which I would expect something decent. That leaves restaurants? I saw a recipe in Batali's Holiday Cookbook that I was skimming through yesterday, but don't recall what he used. Yours, with orange and chocolate sounds good to me.

Is it a ribbed glass canister like the one on my original inheritance from 1949? Congratulations.

Childless here. Happy to have a childhood where dining out was a regular event. I believe (memory may be faulty) that the 3 kids were well behaved in the restaurants. We knew these were special events, we were taught respect. Spent a lot of time in Las Vegas, when it was still an adult environment - and went to the shows to see Sammy Davis Jr, Dean Martin, Carol Channing, Juliet Prowse, etc. The staff usually gave us great seats (and service), we dressed up (far more than I ever do these days) and ate from the full menu. Same with dinners close to home. So, I've never understood the contemporary child in restaurant syndrome with tantrums, toys, etc. I am always impressed with the adult who takes the squirming child outside for a break, or asks for their meal to be packed up to go, when they realize the kid isn't going to settle down. And even more impressed when someone from the restaurant offers to take the child into a back room to be entertained so that the adults can eat a meal in peace. But a parent, I can imagine, might have mixed feelings about that. I know children who have managed to be good diners from very early on. I know parents who chose not to take their kids to nice restaurants since the kids don't sit still. I don't think it is necessary to ban children from restaurants, but I think it is reasonable to have a written policy on what to do if any diner is disruptive, which would cover children as well as drunks, fighters, and others.

Not to fight - just trying to understand - are you referring to the Upper East and West sides, as Pan suggested? The lower East side was home to immigrants from Eastern Europe without a nickel to their name, garment workers, sweatshops, shift sleeping, and tenaments - at least for the first generations like my grandfather. This is well documented by Jacob Riis and others. Who knew those classes in Urban American History would come in handy someday? Back to bagels, please. Wish I had some to compare.