Serious Eats - seriouseats.com

Considering the show shares the same name as his book, Bourdain has a writing credit on the show (probably a "based on") and the main character's name is Jack Bourdain, yep, I'm pretty sure he had to give his permission. (And probably got a nice fat check in the process.)

It's actually not a bad show. I probably watched four or five episodes and found it pretty enjoyable.

I get a lot of recipes on-line but if I'm doing something tried and true I almost always start with my copy of Fannie Farmer. I don't like the way recipes are presented in Joy of Cooking but will use that sometimes as well. Frankly, I use the Cooking Light annual cookbooks more than anything because I like the lightened versions they present. Heck, anybody can add a stick of butter and a cup of heavy cream to something and make it taste good. What can you do when you're not pushing the fat and calorie content through the roof?

I'm hurt. Nobody even mentioned The Hungover Gourmet. Sniff... ;-)

This morning it was over easy with a slice of cheese on top, served atop a slice of Canadian bacon and sandwiched between the halves of an English muffin. With plenty of hot sauce. Usually I go scrambled or poached but I had a hankering for an egg sandwich.

Anybody else here do scrambled eggs and hot dogs?

We used to meet at my brother-in-law's which was halfway for us and my in-laws. But he had the audacity to leave NJ for Florida! So we'll trek up to NJ and have dinner at Braddock's Tavern in Medford.

I can also recommend Hash-House-A-Go-Go, probably 15 minutes off the Strip, for massive amounts of upscale diner food. And, if you're a beer or whiskey fan, stop by an unassuming strip mall by the UNLV campus and spend some time in The Freakin' Frog. Or as my brother and I call it, The Greatest Bar Ever. Amazing beer selection and, according to one of their owners, the largest selection of whiskeys outside of Scotland. Food wasn't bad either. We spent about seven or eight hours there eating and drinking last year and I think we'd still be hanging out there if we didn't have wives.

Two faves. London Broil, marinated in red wine and garlic, then grilled till medium rare. I've also become a HUGE fan of skirt steak, simply seasoned with S&P then grilled or broiled for five minutes per side. Goes great by itself or in tacos.

Frozen food. Stuff that looks waaaaaaay better on the box than it does when it comes out.

Tough choice. Though the arrival of grilling season might change my choice to a nice Beer Can Chicken, I'd probably say good diner meatloaf with gravy, mashed potaoes and creamed spinach.

I've never really been on a diet but my wife did Atkins for a while and I got sucked in around the edges. I could deal with pretty much anything BUT the no caffeine. She was making (ugh) decaf in the morning and after about two days I just couldn't take it.

Wow, great question. I've had great food at the Austin Creek Grill at the tip of Hatteras Island on OBX and there was something about that first In-N-Out Burger when I was in LA last fall. But the best food I've ever had on vacation was a few years ago in Cabo San Lucas. The first night there we had dinner at Mi Casa, one of the area's best restaurants: avocados filled with a cold salad made from bay scallops, chopped tomatoes, onions and herbs and a perfectly grilled filet of carne asada served alongside beans, rice and guacamole. The next day, though, we were out walking around the old town part of Cabo and stumbled upon a hole in the wall place called Taquiera el Venido (or something like that). Amazing homemade salsas, a sausage soup that was incredible, and a trio of tacos (beef, pork and fish) that I'd get on a plane and go back for right now. The cheapest meal of the whole trip and easily the best.

One of the best breakfasts I ever had was at a little place in San Francisco a few years ago. They did a version of Eggs Benedict but topped the whole thing with lump Dungenese crab. Phenomenal. I'm pretty much a sucker for any kind of Eggs Bennie. I saw a place recently where they used a fried green tomato in place of the Candian bacon.