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help..need asparagus ideas for Easter!

Asparagus risotto is very tasty and has a nice look if you cut them on a bias.

You can also wrap asparagus in prosciutto and grill them for just a minute. Blanch and shock them first. Hollandaise is a nice sauce for this.

Keep it simple and let the asparagus flavor speak for itself.

Dream Kitchen Gadgets

A heated RoboCoupe for making Hollandaise really, really quickly.

Easter Weekend in Savannah...

Savannah has been one of my favorite vaction spots. My girlfriend and I have really enjoyed walking around the beautiful parks and just exploring. Bay street is what I would consider the main area of 'historic' Savannah. I would reccommend that as a good starting place for just walking and exploring. River Street, which parrellels Bay Street, is certainly a 'can't miss' area with lots of resturants, gift shops, and home-made goodies. The candy stores give out free samples here and there so you can hit that up for some delicious treats. River Street, as it's name implies, is right on the river so the secenery is great. On the South side of Bay street you'll find lots of really nice parks with beautiful flowers blooming this time of year. It's an awesome place to just sit, chill, and people watch. They have trolley tours available also that will give you basic historical information and show you little odds and ends like where they filmed Forrest Gump and such. Savannah is also the south's 'most haunted city' so there are walking tours that you can take for ghostly site-seeing. Don't be surprised to see some 'ghost hunters' either.

Some places to eat that I recommend would be:

'Wasabi' on MLK Dr. If you like really good sushi at a really great price. Two people can have a nice lunch with soup, salad, beautiful sushi, and a drink for around 20 bucks.

'The Crab Shack' on Tybee Island. Tybee Island is a nice place to visit to catch the beach and for some good seafood. The Crab Shack is easy to find if you just follow the signs. They have fresh seafood that's affordable.

'Wet Willie's on River Street. Oh baby... Wet Willie's drinks are hard to beat. The cool thing about Savannah is that most of the good stuff is in walking distance- including the bars! My girl and I were there on a Monday for kareokee and we were not dissapointed. Hilarious. Plus the WALL of drinks are like Icees for grown-ups. Oh, and get the Chicken Nacos to snack on. Avoid the 'Call-a-Cab' however.

'Gelat-OH!' in City Market. If you've never had Gelato stop in a grab some. They give free samples and small portions if you're just looking to taste.

Avoid Tony Roma's on Bay Street. Not good. Glorified chain resturant.

Sex Before Dinner or Dinner Before Sex?

George Castanza had this one nailed. Eat during sex!

It depends on what you eat... light meal? Sex after. Big meal? Work up an appetite.

Food Writing/Paula Dean

This has really turned ridiculous.

Thanks for the help, not critiques.

Paula Deen is still terrible.

Goodbye.

Food Writing/Paula Dean

Wow. There are so many similarities in cooking and writing. The main one being that anyone, who does it regularly, thinks they’re good at it. But what really makes me love both is the response that it gets from people. Good, bad, neutral- it doesn’t really matter, the point is there is always some sort of emotional feedback.

If I can make professionals from New York city give me 1,253 words of feedback, I’m a happy man. A happy Chef/Writer.

As an apology I will construct a huge statue of Paula in my front yard. I say huge because it will be a scale monument.

Thank you to everyone for your advice and suggestions.

Food Writing/Paula Dean

I am a recent culinary school graduate and I am looking to combine two of my passions: Food and Writing. I'm willing to do anything in the field. The problem is I'm not really sure where to start... resturant reveiws, blogging, etc. Any tips, advice, or direction that anyone could provide as to how to get my foot in the door would be greatly appreciated. A big thank you to anyone who responds!

I also wanted to say how WONDERFUL the 'Paula Dean is trying to kill us' articles are. My girlfriend knows of my hatred for this she-devil of the food industry and shared the glory of these articles with me. As a chef it really, really offends me that people put her on such a big pedestal (even though she needs a BIG pedestal... probabaly all those fried butter balls). I've been to Savannah twice and I'm amazed at the amount of people that flock to 'the Lady and Sons'. I peered in through the window and saw a buffet. A buffet. This woman is a culinary tyrant and her resturant has a buffet. Her merchandise is plastered all over Savannah. They even have Paula Dean trolley tours. It's sad really, that a wonderful town like Savannah, that is full of great independant resturants, is being overtaken by the smelly, cholesterol ridden, cash cow (pun intended) that is Paula Dean. Thanks for bringing some attention to something that people need to realize: Paula Dean is not that great, she's not even good: She is indeed trying to kill us.

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