drongo commented 6 years ago

Btw, some googling reveals that asu mare is variously translated as wow!, gosh! or WTF!. Perhaps a phonetic spelling of a su madre.
http://forum.wordreference.com/thread...

drongo commented 6 years ago

Was that Main Street Bistro?

drongo commented 6 years ago

Looks like UFCW 1262 posted an "informational picket line"
http://www.ufcw1262.org/new-local-126...

drongo commented 6 years ago

Great to see the major food companies get in.

drongo commented 6 years ago

The Verge also had a follow up a month later: http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/26/96...

drongo commented 6 years ago

I think you could easily adapt (i.e. scale up) one of the many recipes available online for French Chicken in a Pot (Poule au Pot).... such as this one: http://www.whats4eats.com/poultry/pou...

drongo commented 6 years ago

There's a nice piece at Serious Eats about the book: http://www.seriouseats.com/2015/10/vi...
Includes a link to a video of Vincent Price cooking with a very young Wolfgang Puck.

drongo commented 6 years ago

I use a small circular rack like the one at link below in a pan in my Breville. Circular is not ideal, but they're easy to find.
http://www.amazon.com/Update-Internat...
(The one I have is not exactly the same as the one in link, but something similar.)

drongo commented 6 years ago

Green Meadows opened in 1954. And your mention of Fern suggests it's still run by the same family! ... Fern L. Szalankiewicz is the daughter of Fern V. Szalankiewicz who started the restaurant with her husband Gene. Of course, it might be a different Fern... but it's not such a common name.

drongo commented 6 years ago

Here's a nice map showing the fate of many of the A&P stores in NY/NJ area: http://data.lohud.com/maps/aandp/
Of the 3 stores nearest my home, 2 are shown as "To be closed" and 1 as "Remains unsold".

The map can't be completely up to date because it doesn't show CVS as a buyer, yet at least one store has been reported to have been sold to CVS: http://www.lohud.com/story/money/busi...

drongo commented 6 years ago

It depends on the specific web site. For example, Cook'n claims: "You can now import all your recipes from your Allrecipes.com account with one click. Simply sign into Allrecipes.com account within Cook'n and click Capture. Cook'n will go through every recipe and capture your recipes into your Cook'n Library." http://www.dvo.com/export.html

drongo commented 6 years ago

JFK Airport is in Queens... I suspect that's the origin of Lonely Planet's assertion.

drongo commented 6 years ago

I have the Fannie Farmer Cookbook. I'd guess my copy is from around 1960, because it has some newspaper clippings from back then placed between its pages. One of the clippings is a recipe for Sukiyaki from the New York World-Telegram and Sun in 1961. Sukiyaki was probably quite exotic in New York back then. Of course, the Fannie Farmer book itself doesn't have any such recipes.

drongo commented 6 years ago

I would definitely use it.

If you said 25 hours, I might answer differently.

drongo commented 6 years ago

Hah! I assumed it must be intended for phone/tablet users... but maybe I was wrong!

drongo commented 6 years ago

Haha. The users strike back.

I think Chowhound will lose some former users and will gain new ones -- especially those who access the site with phone or fondleslab (for whom the new format seems to be designed).

drongo commented 6 years ago

Yes, the previous preferred banana cultivar was wiped out by a fungus, and now the current preferred cultivar is threatened by a similar disease. Hopefully someone will develop a cultivar resistant to the recently-spreading fungus.

drongo commented 6 years ago

I work in a different industry that uses blast freezers to quickly freeze materials. Perhaps you could simulate by separating the containers as much as possible and putting an electric fan in the freezer or fridge to improve heat transfer? I would think the key issue with food is safety -- how to get the temperature down as quickly as possible to limit bacterial growth.

drongo commented 6 years ago

Bittman was my least favorite of the NYT's regular food writers, so I'll be glad if someone (anyone) else will fill his column inches.

drongo commented 6 years ago

More facts (?) about Mallomars from Thrillist: https://www.thrillist.com/eat/nation/...

drongo commented 6 years ago

jar defined here: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define...

drongo commented 6 years ago

"Your next patient reached up the hygienist's skirt at his last dentist?" ... My dentist told me that dental patients are always very well-behaved because a dentist (and also a hygienist, I'm sure) can very quickly inflict serious pain on any malefactor!