This is the right take. Read more

Q: New York Style or Chicago Style Pizza?
A: Yes
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I think this would be a great addition to Takeout. Repurposed food leftovers with a list of recipe ideas! Read more

So none of these items were good enough to rate top Farina, which would either be Crime Story Dennis Farina, or Midnight Run Dennis Farina. Read more

I was in the Royal Engineers (very storied British army regiment) cadets in my mid-teens in the 1980s and learned to shoot on 1940s-issue Lee-Enfields. Read more

Anthony Dennison has had a nice career, but he could have done more. He’s a really good actor.  Read more

Mix that oil in with some prepared hummus for a nice treat!
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The best Farina was the two season cop show, Crime Story, from the 80's. Created by Michael Mann, the first season was set in the 1960's Chicago and the second season was set in Vegas. The entire series is on YouTube:

I don’t want to be overly dramatic here but leaving Dennis Farina out the Oscar In Memoriam is a crime and someone should have went to jail over it.   Read more

To expand on grilled cheese, do this with any savory sandwich. Read more

It makes the best focaccia I’ve ever tasted. Plus, anything you sous vide in “jah-dnayah” oil tastes better than it would have other wise. It’s especially good with chicken or cod loins that way. Read more

So how many people would hunt me down and toss me in the river with some cement shoes for considering making this, but replacing the giardiniera with peppers in sauce made by a local Italian restaurant? (Though now that I check something, it looks like the restaurant actually makes giardiniera as well, I just don’t… Read more

Does it at least have some good suggestions on picking out beef, for when you claim your steak? Read more

They are STUPID! Impossible to store easily, too ugly (and specific) to leave out... (Mine was a gift - I hate it until I want fries). Read more

The lyrics are “But I don’t know what to do with those tossed salads and scrambled eggs” so I never pictured them together either. I can’t imagine putting anything other than a hard-boiled egg in a salad. Read more

I have to take issue with your second sentence here. You claim that the Bears sucked; the implication here is that it’s no longer the case. While it is true that the Bears have sucked, it is very much the case that the Bears still, in fact, suck.

For this I used the only coffee I could think of that would simultaneously be most appropriate and most insulting to Dr. Frasier Crane: Starbucks Pike’s Place Roast. As I began preparing the orange slices Read more

Bonus points for the cover having Season 1 hair Frasier Read more

I don’t know if you do tv-inspired cookbooks on the regular, but if you do,  I highly recommend the Unofficial Mad Men Cookbook. It’s recipes + New York food history + Mad Men. The results have been a mixed bag, but some of that may be my fault.  Read more

Let’s get this out of the way: there is no recipe for Tossed Salad & Scrambled Eggs. It was a psychiatric metaphor! Also, I’m not an eggs-in-salad guy Read more