Serious Eats - seriouseats.com

With my mothers homemade sauce or any recipe that includes peas..,

Brownies with chocolate chips in them, m&ms or a truffle

Michael's is so good, enjoy that first night!
I have to recommend Prime 112, if not only for the food, but the experience. Just be prepared that even with a reservation you will have to wait for a table ( we waited for about a half hour for ours). But since the weather is so nice you can just wait outside and stare at the cars and the celebrities coming in.

As for the food, I found it better than most steakhouses that we have been to. My husband had the filet and I had a really good cod dish. Everything else that we tried, we really enjoyed.

the 'cue shack in durham,nc!

Sauteeing, but I love to roast in the fall/ winter

I am really sad to say that I only got 2 correct. I thought that I knew somthing about bbq, but like corycm it only means that I get to study more!

Ohh-- there are so many. The Steingarten, Trillin, and Reichl books are all amazing, but I wouldn't say my favorite ( although I never want their books to end). I'm also glad someone else mentioned the Thornes. Their book "Pot on the Fire" was my first food related book that I read and I am looking forward to reading it again. I really enjoyed the Julia Child and Paul Prud'Homme "My Life in France". As someone else mentioned, not so much about food, but a beautifully written story about/ by such a beloved woman. I am currently enjoying both "the United States of Arugula" by David Kamp, and "How I Learned to Cook" edited by Kimberly Witherspoon and Peter Meehan. Both are really interesting in their own ways. I started both "Heat" and "the Perfectionist" in the past year, and really need to get back to them soon.