gfweb

Shrimp scampi actually translates as shrimp shrimp. But scampi has come to mean a garlicky sauce and we now see sole scampi etc. RE au jus... Guy Fieri will burn in hell for his egregious misuse of the term on TV. I knew in third grade that prime rib au jus was "with juices" . Clearly hair bleach depletes grey cells.

How bad does a place have to be to rate a sucky judgement? I'd say that depends on how much it costs and how much it misses the mark. IHOP isn't much but they do what they set out to do. A $45 entree place that has gloppy sauce and overdone lobster sucks even though if IHOP served it for ten bucks you'd be happy. We ate recently at a Delaware stalwart, Vincente's. Been around for ages. Vincente has a schtick where he designs your meal based on what you say you like. Charming old guy. But the food is badly seasoned and boring and overcooked. It doesn't come out as he described. It sucks cause it missed the mark he set.

Seems odd, but I've known crappy restaurants to last decades on reputation and a loyal following of old ladies eg Old Original Bookbinders in Philly sucked for as long as I can remember.

I can tell you that scrambled is not the way to order in a diner. They are never pillowy mounds of eggy wonder. Invariably they are chopped up flattop disasters.

Because its neat. ;-)

Is this an example of inverted inverted snobbery?

Artificial sweeteners are bad for you Well, no. They've been tested out the wazoo and are safe as far as anyone can tell. Saccharine in particular has been around longer than most of us and is safe. Sugar, on the other hand, rots teeth, makes you fat, and brings out diabetes in the susceptible. It is easy for somebody with an agenda and an internet connection to make assertions about the FDA and their ability to determine safety, but if you look at the record, the FDA does pretty darn well at what they decide to address. If anything they are over-cautious...which is usually not a bad thing. If you want to FDA-bash a valid target would be all the stuff that they decline to address; like the safety of "nutritional supplements" and food safety. But even then your beef is really with congress who gives FDA their mandate and has exempted botanicals from scrutiny unless they make a drug-like claim.

I agree with pretty much everything above esp the pasteurization issue. All of the big advances in medicine...the ones that prevent large scale disease and death...have been in the public health realm. Sewage treatment, malarial swamp draining and vaccination are the big ones; but not far behind is pasteurization of milk.

Fred Harvey was an amazing guy. All but forgotten now. He brought fine dining to small town America and civilized the place too. A great bio of him came out a couple of years ago.

Where we live there are plenty of chains and plenty of non-chains. The OGs are all backed up with lines at night and the owner operated are busy, but not jammed. I think that the Darden group has got it figured out. I've read that their formula is so loved by the customers that they can't change dinnerware without hearing complaints. Changing a recipe is even worse.

I remember traveling as a little kid and seeing a Duncan Hines emblem on small town restaurants. A paleo-zagat.

Duncan Hines was the guy. Salesman who travelled and made a list of good restaurants.

What am I missing? This. There are a few not safe for work words.

Travel a little in the heartland and an Outback, OG or even a Red Lobster can look pretty darn good. And honestly, they don't suck; they're just not haute

Mrs Hagerty is a honey badger.

How long do you pressure cook the chicken?

Must be the female vote. Grayson was the best. Without question. Pretty and didn't put up with Toms nonsense.

I agree!

Beautiful and definitely a steal!

Humorlessness in the heartland. Good grief. I was mocking the arch tone of some of the internet commenters. Some people like taking offense I guess.

Right. OG isn't vile. In fact it is one of the better chains. I can imagine that in Grand Forks after a long day roping little dogies and shooting varmints a man can get a powerful hankering for some of that Eye-talian food and an OG would be a God-send.

The demise of home cooking may well have been World War Two. Women were driven into the workforce at least temporarily. Convenience foods were dawning around then too.

Settling a case doesn't mean you are guilty or dishonest. It can mean you want to cut potential losses...purely a business decision. Picture being fat, rich, TV-star Batali facing a NY jury. He doesn't have a chance. His lawyers know it, the plaintiff's lawyers know it. The whole thing could have been set up as a raid on his bank account.

This whole flap has seemed overdone to me. Her food is no more prone to causing the weight gain that leads to diabetes (in those who are susceptible) than Boloud's or Colliccio's. Have seconds every night at Daniel you'll get fat too. I'm no fan of her or her kind of food, but she has been unfairly singled out over the years; probably because of her joyous use of butter etc. Regarding the drug ads...I'm no fan of drug ads, but I wonder how many of her critics would turn down the money she's getting.

Cutco! Those guys have the most evil marketing plan on Earth. It goes like this. Recruit HS grads on the way to college with the prospect of a scholarship. They tend to be the less financially-advantaged kids. Have them visit every friend of their parents and try to score a sale or two. They never sell much, but Cutco makes a bundle on their wildly overpriced stuff. The only benefit to the kids is they learn to stay away from this kind of scam in the future without having lost too much money.