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I found my favorite foodie spot while visting the city last March. In Greenwich Village, my friend and I stumbled upon Bonnie Slotnick Cookbooks, a vintage cookbook store where you can find all the classics and a great collection of Junior League books (my favorite.)

Here are my Santa Fe suggestions. I lived there for a year, and made it my business to know where good food was served.

Chocolate Maven: I used to work there. I love their carrot cake cupcakes, chocolate croissants, and they offer a tasty brunch on the weekends.

La Boca: A Spanish tapas restaurant by James Campbell that's to die for! I actually got engaged here, and even though that didn't last, I'm still thinking about the meal.

Clafoutis: A great French bakery that offers delicious lunch options.

Harry's Roadhouse: A classic joint on the outskirts of town that serves up good food and rotates specials.

Bobcat Bite: Also a bit out of Santa Fe, but they make a mean burger. Has often made some of the top national burger lists, but if you don't feel like making the trip. I was a sucker for Blake's Lottaburger.

For more suggestions, check out the SF Reporter. I really respect their food writers' opinions.

I only made it through 30 seconds; I couldn't take it anymore.

@ mr. guy: your girlfriend is hilarious.

I'm surprised Cooking for Real wasn't mentioned in his memo. It's ranks high on the terrible scale, right up there with Sandra Lee's show. I do however enjoy Ace of Cakes; I find their laid-back attitude amusing, but it's the only entertaining cake show.

My North America choice is a 5 day food tour of the Pacific Northwest that includes Vancouver, Seattle, and Portland. My abroad pick is a serious food binge in Morocco.

water balloons = genius

Bacon is my favorite meat. I fry/bake it, and add it in as my protein it in meat-lite meals multiple times a week. Then I save the leftover bacon fat, and add that to flavor just about everything I cook.

Turkey bacon is weak sauce.

I suspect a cake cart will be soon to follow.

I think I'd rather date a pulled pork sandwich than a guy too...looking forward to reading more.

I've been staring at a large bag of oatmeal cookie dough in my freezer for the past few weeks. Like ya'll, I make large batches of drop cookies, and freeze them in order to have reasonable portions at my convenience. I hate letting them defrost so I thought I'd experiment tonight with direct freezer to oven baking to answer your question (and my instant gratification.)

Much like "The Chewy" this particular oatmeal cookie bakes for about 14 minutes at 375 degrees. So I put 4 frozen cookies balls on a cookie sheet and let them sit in the oven while it preheated. I let them bake for 10 more minutes once the oven was up to temperature. When I pulled them out, the texture was perfect; crisp on the outside, and chewy on the inside.

Yank Sing for dim sum

Just to name a few places...Sugar Mama's Bakeshop, Mighty Cone, Food Heads, Avenue B, Trailer Park Eatery, (If you can swing it) Hudson's on the Bend, Ranch 616, Siena, Soco Cafe, P.J. Terry's, Vivo, Hoover's, Las Palomas, Fonda San Miguel, Moonshine, Iron Works. And last but not least, visit the Sunset Valley Farmers Market and Boggy Creek Farm before you go.

I work right around the corner from Terra and have been looking forward to trying it. I was very disappointed with the Five Guys burger, and was hoping theirs would be better. Hopefully, mine won't be overdone like the one in the picture.