Diann

This is why I'm (belatedly) mourning Yann... their lunches were perfect for hot, muggy days. I like Good Dog's salads -- especially the grilled calamari (with oranges, fennel, and an orange/tomato/dill vinagrette).

Like...Apamate with an expanded menu?

I'm really looking forward to trying this place, dagordon. Thanks for the heads-up! After a bit of googling I think I have some translations of things I like: - Tendon = Gan - Bible tripe = Sach - Nam = Flank And Tai is eye round ("regular" pho). Anyways, is any English spoken at Cafe Diem? I just want to be able to ask them if I can get tendon and flank in my pho. Or should I attempt the Vietnamese?

Duh, I totally should have googled the man. Thanks James! Maybe I could find an excuse to order a case of cakes (hey, it's only two 9" rounds per case) from Symphony Pastries. My birthday is coming up in July...

Reading the Table Talk item on Mantra today made me think... whatever happened to Yann? I haven't been living under a rock -- I know it's been gone for a while, but does anyone know why it closed? I always thought they did decent business and I really loved their croissants, desserts, and lunches. I liked the place a lot better than Miel, actually. Is that why it closed? (Proximity to the more famous Miel/Robert Bennett and a resulting inability to compete?) Also, does anyone know where Yann Machard went? I'd love to track him down. Hopefully he's still making pastries

There's a reference here I'm clearly not getting. I'm intrigued. Spill. edited to add: Oh Duh!! Never mind... ← Okay, I don't get it. Explain, por favor!

Gah! I'm obviously a freak. And by even posting this, I bet I'll invite scorn. But I do like a good blueberry bagel. With cream cheese. And lox. And hard-boiled egg, and thin-sliced cucumber, and tomato... It's a sweet and salty thing. Fine, they're not real bagels, but sometimes they can be good. Send your blueberry and cinnamon raisin bagels my way, I'll eat 'em! (Not the Lenders' ones, though...I do have at least a modicum of taste. Oh, and obviously, I wouldn't ever bother ordering a fruit bagel in Montreal or New York--only poppyseed or sesame seed will do. But when in San Francisco or Philadelphia, not exactly bagel capitals of the world... I WILL be one of those people eating the scorned bagels!)

Count me in too! (I'm out of town June 22-July 4, but any other time works for me.) Have her hurry up and send us a menu so we can start debating wine pairings...

You think you'd get any "South Philly 'tude" if you ran around assembling a sandwich like that? (1) Go to Pat's, ask for a roll. 2) Order meat and cheese at Tony Luke's and hand them your bun--you're just trying to be helpful, cutting down on their materials costs... 3) Dash over to Jim's and get them to throw some onions on that sucker for ya.) I dare you to try it!

Marigold does use the front room as a dining room -- I glanced in there recently and I'm sure you could seat 20-odd people. Alonna, here's their website with a menu, contact info, etc.: http://www.marigoldkitchenbyob.com

Braised fatty pork shoulder, yum! I need to get back to Four Rivers. P.S. Don't feel bad about eating the succulent, glistening layer of skin and fat covering the pork -- it's why Shanghai women have perfect complexions! (That's what my mom says, anyways.)

Marigold might be worth a try, especially since they have several rooms upstairs now. And their food is great!

Welcome to egullet, Alonna! Thanks for clarifying LBF's intent. Regardless of the age of the diners Perrier's trying to attract... it's got ME interested.

A couple of the vaguely "New American" places I wanted to recommend to you (Mandoline, Matyson, etc.) are closed on Sundays, but what about Bistro 7 in Old City? I've never been, but have heard good things about it, and the food seems to be reminiscent of Fork, from my quick glance at LaBan's review. For something slightly different, but definitely worth a try, perhaps Amada, or Ansill. Both killer small plates and good wines/beers/cocktails, and both open for dinner on Sunday. Caribou Cafe is also open for dinner on Sundays and people seemed to love the recent DDC dinner there. Note: I bet reservations anywhere are going to be a must on Sunday night -- I agree that Mother's Day is more of a brunch holiday, but Penn's graduation is Monday, May 15, so hordes of parents and other folk are going to be in town this weekend.

I volunteer at food banks and soup kitchens, work on affordable housing finance, and work with CDCs. I'm not trying to be holier than thou, I just think there are larger issues than foie gras to worry about, and wish that all this time and effort that's going into this particular issue could be diverted into another cause -- something that affects more lives.

I just read the NYT article. First sentence: I sense a migraine coming on. Could we please pay some attention to (in no particular order) world hunger, homelessness, lack of access to clean water for billions of people, pollution, education, genocide, cancer, AIDS, etc., first? Argh.

Last night, I cured one six ounce piece for an hour, with Vadouvan's cure, then roasted at 225 for a little over 20 minutes. A little bit of the fat did start to leach out, but I caught it in time and the fish turned out great -- unctuous, silky, tender. I don't know if, say, a four ounce piece would get dried out or over-cured, but six ounces seems to work just fine. For what it's worth, I brushed teriyaki sauce on the other piece, roasted that too, and the results were equally good.

Funny... this is EXACTLY what I crave. These are the zongzi I grew up eating and I love 'em to death -- don't like all that egg and peanut mucking up my rice and meat! And I found a recipe: http://forums.egullet.org/index.php?showtopic=44225 Granted, it seems like nobody on this thread will be making that style but me, and maybe Gary Soup

Nah... I've been hearing about this thing for a while. It's Perrier's attempt to snag younger diners. Here's the menu: Garden Room Menu

Diann, Pacific King salmon is just as good as Copper River King Salmon. Both are excellent fish and in a blind tasting cooked the same way, nobody can consistently guess which is which. ← Vadouvan -- What makes the Copper River king salmon "legendary", then? Just curious.

Thanks for the cure ideas guys... I bought some king salmon (fresh, wild, but I doubt it's Copper River) from John Yi's on Saturday and now I know what I'm doing for dinner tonight

They do it in the US too! There are a couple of places I can immediately think of that serve arugula on pizza -- Pesto in South Philly, Niebaum-Coppola in Palo Alto, California (and I'm sure all the other Niebaum-Coppola cafes serve it too), and Teresa's in Princeton. Teresa's version is great; I haven't had the other two. I'm not a pizza person either, but something about the contrast of temperatures, textures, tastes (spicy arugula, hot crispy crust, salty proscuitto, all bound together with a little cheese) makes this particular pizza soooo good. I actually prefer it without tomato sauce. Chufi, the version with the marscapone sounds even better

Are you talking about the Sichuan peppercorn?

Radicchio is open! And they are GOOD. Not on the main line, though, sorry...

So we did a semi-roast pork tour -- due to terrible traffic, we didn't make it to John's until 2:55PM, at which time the doors were locked. It's unclear from their signs whether they are or are not open on Saturdays (one sign says yes, another sign says no)... We did make it to Johnny's Hots, though. Thanks for the inspiration, Rich and Holly! That is some AMAZING pork. I have to say, better than Tony Luke's (just the pork part). The shredded provolone didn't melt on my sandwich, though, so I took points off for that. And of course, Tony Luke's is nearly always open, so we had (in my mind) the classic. If I could combine Johnny's roll and pork with Tony Luke's rabe and sharp provolone, that would be the perfect sandwich...