The range you mention (within 2 miles of Ballys or the Venetian)includes the entire strip. How about being more specific?

10 grams of asparagus per bottle - I guess you could just about taste it.

Scotch - Black Bottle <$20
Tequila - Espolon Reposado $20
Cognac/Armagnac Marie Duffau $30
Moonshine Georgia Moon $9

Difficult to get good Italian food in London? You have to be kidding

Rationing has ended?

I have lived in the USA for over 40 years and every house (5) and every apartment or condo (5) has had a garbage disposal. Do you mean a trash compactor? Those are not as common

They also do a lot of German stuff

Don't worry Dan - it will stop itself. But I did like the vending machines in Tokyo where you could get hot coffee and cold beer out of the same machine.

The Alpine Inn in Hill City does a pretty good steak dinner at a very reasonable price - looks very dated both inside and out but good steaks

IMHO thick aluminum BEATS thick copper for the simple reason that it is one third as heavy. Still loving our 5mm thick anodized aluminum with an induction friendly steel layer on the base.

Microwave ovens are cheap - though built-ins are a little more pricy. They are usually not worth fixing - just get a fairly cheap replacement - and if it is an oven that needs to be wired in get an electrician to do it as these appliances can store lethal voltages.

I said it was out of the way but the question was which is the smallest Pappadeaux

Jaipur - fusiony Indian with their own microbrewery is bizarrely very good

It's out of your way but I would think the Pappadeaux in terminal E at IAH airport would have to be the smallest

If it's French doisy would be pronounced "dwuh zee" which is pretty much indistinguishable from "dwa zee".

Pimms?

Maharajah of Brum - or was that just a song?

Well Joe Bastianich would certainly know about ripoffs - a couple of years ago he and Mario Batali had to return $5 million in tips that they had ripped off of their staff. http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style...

That sounds plausible - but they really shouldn't call it a filter. It's a chemical process.

Sounds specious to me Zin. Dissolved sulfites CANNOT be filtered out of wine. It may be possible to remove them by some other means - probably chemical. But filtration can only remove particles. Perhaps the company is being very loose in its use of the word "filtration"

If you MUST have a burr grinder here is a manual one for $26.90 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00Z... I was asked to review this but passed on the opportunity as I'm not sure my joints are up to the task any more

I took all my employees to Nawlins in August one year. Hotels were dirt cheap - meals were great and cost us way more than the hotels. Weather was fine that year.

The only time we went to the Savoy theatre we had pre-theatre dinner at Banquette at the Savoy hotel. Sadly this has now closed but the there is Kaspar's - also at the Savoy. Here is a link to their pre-theatre menu http://www.kaspars.co.uk/wp-content/u...
I think it would be difficult to find a restaurant that is more conveniently located for the Savoy theatre

Frankly I doubt that Martell VSOP is good enough for the market to be monopolized by Asians. Now Delamain or Tiffon (aka Brastaad) is a different question. Leaving cognac aside, the brandy that could get monopolized is armagnac.

Glad you liked Jaipur - I seem to be about the only regular poster who knows about the place

That is my reading of it too DuffyH and the point I was trying to make.

The base is clad with stainless steel and that works perfectly well or induction. Since aluminum is a GREAT conductor the combination of aluminum and steel works just fine.