hollywood

Here's some info. http://www.seat61.com/Sleepers.htm You can probably get more specifics from Thomas Cook.

Hey, FG, maybe you should do a Q & A with Carly Beede. http://www.torani.com/meet/pr5.shtml

Here is another tip: Take the night train - You get to use the sleeper/compartment, this way you save on one night stay in a hotel and as you wake up you are in Paris or whereever you want-to-be. This sounds good but unless you're gonna pay a lot for a private compartment, you are sleeping with a bunch of other folks and really you don't sleep that well. They snore. They get up to go to the head. They talk. The conductor comes to check on something.

Maybe the Coudelet instead. Or a Cahors.

This is complicated. I'd simplify. White Rock Chardonnay and White Rock Claret. People will think you're a shill or a genius.

Blah, blah, blah, Euro. Compared to England & France, Italy will be a bargain.

Cream3. It's about contempaorary art. But could inspire chefs.

There used to be a place in Pasadena (Monaghan's) that made a drink called the Black Olive using guess what. Fave of Joe Wambaugh. Thought I'd expand your search.

Good menu. Glad you left out the glass onion.

Based on my own somewhat limited experience, L'Os a Moelle is the best combo of quality and value with its prix fixe meals. For good seafood with an Asian twist (and a little more money), Taira.

Gonna get high man listen to me, one drink ain't enough Jack you better make it three

Maybe his underwear was too tight.

Is Lobel's a nose to tail kinda place?

But there are no bones in sushi.

Check this link. http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m1346/1...1/article.jhtml As for beer, in these parts it's Sapporo, Asahi and Kirin.

Never heard of Schwartz nor Langer; Are they in New York? Sorry for the obscure references. Langer's is the best Jewish deli in LA. Schwartz's is the legendary smoked meat emporium in Montreal. I'm not sure I'd agree that Langer's is the best deli in LA (there are others), but it definitely has the best pastrami in town.

On other occasions: peaches en regalia.

?????? Presumably he was working for the store and not just some guy dressed as a cow? Presumably a guy would be dressed as a steer.... Unless he was cross dressing.

Any photos?

Lets see... 3 visits to starbucks a year, $5 per visit.... $15 + $15 for being twice as good.... $1200 / $30... The machine will pay for itself in only 40 years! Yeah, but you locked in the price of your machine. The price of Starbucks will continue to go up.

My mother was pretty good considering she was selftaught as a cook. She made (still does, I guess) great scrambled eggs. But whenever she made a pot roast (pretty deadly in itself), we had leftovers which were usually the roast meat cut up to make a flavorless unchewable stew. I can't guess how many times we did the mouth to napkin to toilet routine on that one.

Bookwise, you might get a kick out of Summer's Lease by John Mortimer. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...=books&n=507846 I seem to recall Trillin writing evocatively about his adventures in Lucca, perhaps in one of his Tummy Trilogy books.

Hootie and the Blowfish....sushi to die for.

Fat Guy....La Marzocco Linea AV 1 Group, 5 pounds of freshly roasted Jamaica Blue Mountain.