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I agree RE Bertuccis, a northeast chain. Reliably good pizza but the rest of their menu isn't great. Pasta is mushy and chicken dishes are similarly overcooked.

Natural selection is in progress.

It is equally possible that you need to taste good pizza sometime. No, it's not. I've had good -- even great -- pizza, though not from Papa John's. All I'm saying is that your single experience with their product doesn't match my multiple encounters with it. Yes. You are right. I was responding to what I read as being a dismissive answer. Sent from my Droid using Tapatalk 2

It is equally possible that you need to taste good pizza sometime.

Yesterday I was trapped at a hotel at a interstate exit in Wyoming with no car, no restaurant, no room service and nothing nearby. So I ordered from Papa John's (who would deliver). It was brought promptly, with a pleasant delivery person, and was just wretched. The crust was OK under the circumstances, but sauce was barely present, and the cheese was some strange stuff in a thin layer over some of the dough. It looked painted-on. The pizza came with packets of parm, spices, garlic and red pepper. E ven taking into consideration that I was in Casper, WY, it was just awful. So are there any national pizza chains that can be trusted?

God help me, I'm beginning to enjoy the bleached blond sod. At a certain time of night, after a few beverages, his show is visual drunk food. I usually end up making a sandwich with bacon in it. I still won't go in any of his places though.

It might even be OK. Probably better than Hard Rock et al.

You can walk anywhere in center city to South St ...to university city...and all the way south on Broad St. But I wouldn't walk very far north of about Callowhill St without some protection esp at night and esp if the kids don't have "city reflexes"

Me too. AB is a media creation who takes himself too seriously. Flay is the real thing.

Breakfast today...roast beef hash w onions and potatoes dressed with ketchup and sriracha. a nice wake up

Why not intern at Lidia in the burgh and work your butt off and then use that connection to move to one of her joints in NYC? I can't urge you too much to keep debt as low as you can.

Why not intern in Pittsburgh? Avoiding debt is especially important early in any career. Build your resume and then try NYC.

A heated plate would solve many problems as would a cloche.

I'd say the person has chickens and hoards cartons for the eggs.

Adding a bit of baking soda speeds the Maillard reaction by raising pH and onions brown quicker. Like in half the time. I have not compared the taste of these onions to traditionally browned ones. That is for tonight.

I haven't had weeping onions in years. My eyes usually do the weeping around onions. What I have seen is a higher number of bad yellow onions in the past year.

I'm gonna like this week a lot I think.

An old fashioned hot plate/magnetic stirrer might do the job if the temp control knob was sensitive enough. But even then I think it'd be inferior to a pid controller / crock pot

I suspect its Jeffery Steingarten, who can be a pig it is said.

Scandalous! I'm south of the city and the only 7-11 I can think of is on a bad corner in DE.

The more I think about it I think that the author paints a pretty unattractive picture of himself. Its not any one thing just the sum of a lot of little details he gives of his life and thinking.

I've read the thing. Its OK. Bastianich doesn't come off as too likable in his own memoir, so its probably honest. Interesting stuff about restaurant economics. I think most eG types would find it interesting.

Hardly any 7-11s in this part of the world. Wawa eats them alive. A Philly/ mid-atlantic chain that is starting to appear in FL, Wawa has mastered convenience store food. Pretty decent hoagies, hot dogs etc. Not quite as good as an Italian deli but very reliable and all over the place.

Microwaving a rock could be a problem if there's water in fissures ...small bomb. And without water no micowave heating will happen.