Entries from Foolish Questions tagged with 'Dining'
Cheese Wheels
I have a confession. Yes, it is yet another confession. Yes, I have a lot of confessions. I'm a lapsed Catholic. It's our thing. We never get over that whole sit in a dark cubicle and tell a man who...
Dinner Ideas
As the primary meal purveyor in the Waring household, I occasionally find myself completely bereft of ideas for the evening meal. More to the point, I sometimes find myself rather wanting in motivational impetus to cook. This wouldn't be a...
Truly, Deeply, Madly Bad Ideas
Deep from the depths of American product promotion ideas come a new and horrifying twist on that perennial breakfast icon - the Poptart. Now, to be honest the humble poptart really isn't the worst idea for a breakfast food that...
Future Food Fun
In travel related plans, summer is drawing to a close. While the nation as a whole has sweltered, roasted, and boiled, we've been having a somewhat cooler season than usual up here in the High Rockies. John Denver country. Well,...
National Ice Cream Month
Did you know there was a National Ice Cream Month? Neither did I. I suppose there's a National day, week, or month for pretty much everything nowadays. Especially, things or services that can be exchanged for cash. But as it...
Unusual Meals: In The Beginning
Mary politely interrupted my perusal of the latest issue of Irradiated Foods Monthly to importune me to write something - anything. I declared that I had checked my larder of article ideas - and the cupboard was bare, my love!...
Steaks, Steaks, Who Likes Some Steaks?
Colorado Springs has many fine features. The weather during the summer, all fifteen days of it, is spectacular - cool and dry, and the air is bracingly pure and wonderfully transparent. The local inhabitants are remarkably friendly and cheerful, and...
Diets, or the Penalties of Excessive Consumption
So Mary pointed a while ago that our personal circumferences were approaching a size not incommensurate with that of the asteroid that was rumored to have killed the dinosaurs. I myself don't subscribe to that belief and am still holding...
Golden Oldie
One shouldn't get the impression from the preceding entry that we did not enjoy our culinary outings in Austria. We did. Quite a lot actually. And one of the better and more interesting adventures along the way was dining...
Austrian Cuisine
I'd hesitate to call Austrian cuisine monotonous, because really, it isn't. I mean you have an extensive selection of sausages to choose from. And for dessert there's any number of tortes, cakes, and pastries available. But if you're looking...
Germanic Idylls
We enjoyed our recent visit to Germany, really we did. Beer gardens (or biergartens as our Teutonic cousins refer to them) are awesome. I could spend days there but sadly, Mary has some sort of genetic disorder that results...
Meditations on Cheese!
Or the semblance of cheese. We were talking over lunch about the upcoming trip to Europe and I mentioned that for the life of me I couldn't really think of any famous German cheeses. French, English, and Italian - yes,...
Wurst!
Vienna is known for many exemplary cultural type things. Like operas, symphonies, theaters, bookstores, cafes with dark, dark coffee and fine, fine pastries. But as a wise man said, man can't live on exquisite and elegant examples of taste...
Anchovial Alchemy
I have a new addiction. The new addiction joins the panoply of other food related addictions such as the fried pork products, fried potato products, beer, fruit cake (that's another story - for later), smoked meat products of all...
Gastrosexuals?
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Cereality - A Tour on the Surreal Side
On our last return leg back through DFW (which is Dallas-Fort Worth airport, but we experienced flyers all use the airport codes to show off how cool we are), we ended up in Terminal C which was a different...
Charleston
Charleston came as a bit of a surprise to both of us. I had lived just outside the city for a significant amount of my early childhood and thus really only knew that the city existed. What can I...
Rain Delay - Savannah
At this point we've come to accept rain as just a normal and unavoidable part of our existence, like breathing, or news articles about Paris Hilton. We think that there is a chance that the rain may stop sometime before...
The Rain, The Rain - The Road Show
Rain followed us up the coast yesterday or we followed the rain up the coast yesterday, the jury is still out. In any case more rain forecast for today as we tour Savannah. We're feeling distinctly soggy. I think there...
Airline Food Revisited Again, Once More
I know complaining about food in first class is frowned upon. I mean you're getting sustenance and imported beer (really, as much as you can drink, at least up to the point where you start seeing gremlins out on the...
DFW Epicurean Delights
Stuck with an hour to kill in Dallas, which is our absolute minimum layover since approximately 87% of all visits to Dallas International Airport and Bar have resulted in delays on arrivals, on departures, and during exceptionally busy times, for...
Viva Las Vegas!
Ahh, Las Vegas, to many the land of dreams where fortunes are won and lost on a roll of the dice and beautiful people in beautiful clothes with beautiful jewelry party the night away. We didn't go to that...
Wait Stiff
Recently we dined at a very nice and very expensive restaurant in New York. I won't mention the name of the place except to note that it was Jean Georges. Damn, I have a hard time keeping secrets. We'd...
Maui Dining (Slightly Delayed)
During our last visit to Maui (which sounds like we visit Maui all the time doesn't it - I wish), we checked out a number of restaurants, because well, we like to eat. We're strange that way. Like Kauai,...
OMGawd
Via, Jaunted, there comes a report on something so revolutionary, so earth shaking that I'm almost at a loss for words. Or I would be I didn't have this handy on-line thesaurus. It seems a minor league team...
The Frugal Hedonist: Las Vegas
It's time for another installment of the Frugal Hedonist by Mary regarding our recent trip to Las Vegas. This time she outdid herself, saving enough cash to allow us to purchase a couple of tottering commerical banks in New...
Valentine's Day (Deferred)
One of the many things I love about my wife Mary, is that she isn't hung up on convention. Holidays, birthdays, anniversaries, and the like, are not the types of things that have to be slavishly adhered too. There...
Boulder, Mountain High
Although we found Nederland, Colorado, to be a fun little town, the most important adjective here was little, and thus surprisingly somewhat lacking in four star hotels, room service, and French restaurants. On the other hand, Boulder, Colorado is...
Naan!
As a bit of an addendum to the post on Indian side dishes, one essential part of the whole Indian dining experience, at least in our house, is a plate of naan. Naan is a flat bread common to...
Side Dishes
Mary found a superb deal recently on Amazon, of all places, for Indian food. I know, I know, so many questions come to mind. Like what is she doing surfing Amazon when there's site updates pending for Mousesavers? I...
Musso and Frank
In our latest trip to Los Angeles, Mary had to go to some meetings while I had to hang out at the pool and ogle scantily clad seniors who were wearing bathing togs that were much too small for...
Vegemite Museum?
Ahh, the wonders of Vegemite. To the uninitiated, and if you are, thank your lucky stars, Vegemite is a sandwich spread, a toast topper, a floor wax and a bathroom caulk. Well, not actually the last two, but it...
Everything on a Stick
Another television series we've had TIVOed (and am I allowed to use this acronym when we're really using the DVR supplied by Comcast?), for the last couple of seasons is Life. Excellent show, starring Damian Lewis who was so...
Salumi
This is a wonderful time to live in America. Oh, I know there are naysayers that point to the economy collapsing, convinced we'll all be living soon in refrigerator boxes under the freeway overpass. (By the way, the one...
Churrascaria!
At last, my opportunity to do the "I'm Right and You're Wrong Dance." It's been two years five months, seventeen days and three hours since the last time I got a chance to tango to that particular tune. In...
Pleasure Island
Well, here we are in Orlando. The weather's pretty phenomenal: balmy with just a soupcon of humidity. With the temperature dropping as low as 60 degrees F at night, the local news is recommending that children, soft and delicate...
Breakfast Vacations - The Deep South
Continuing on with our series of Sunday breakfasts based on regional specialties, we come to a particular love of mine - the South. Ahh, Sunday mornings in Charleston growing up, how I enjoyed a sumptuous banquet of Southern specialties......
N'Awlins Musings
Well, we're all booked up for a visit with my family this Thanksgiving in New Orleans. Or as Mary refers to it, the "Home of the Drive-Through Frozen Daiquiri." Yes, Lousiana is actually the Land That Time Tried...
Food News
In my quest to agitate for better food selection at airports I thought I might mention a few new developments in this vital area. USA Today has a article out on changes for Terminal 5 at JFK. Terminal...
Kaua'i Restaurants
Duane's Ono Char-Burger (4-4350 Kuhio Hwy, on the ocean side of the road, in Anahola) I had read so many raves about this tiny burger stand that I half expected lunch here to be a life-altering experience. Alas, no....
Disney Dining
As part of a long term continuing series I've been writing short reviews of various dining establishments in and around the Disney World complex for MouseSavers.com for some time. I try and keep the tone light, For the most...
Seattle Still
So our Thanksgiving sojourn continues in the Emerald City, and it's become obvious that the moniker is not due to the gemlike beauty of the place, but a reference to the fact that green mold grows on everything. Including...
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