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Another vote for schav. I have a quickie version in which you add two tablespoons of cooked sorrel and a quarter cup of Greek yogurt to a tall glass, fill up the rest with chilled low-salt chicken stock and add 1 tablespoon of heavy cream to top it off. Mix well and sip.

My favorite cold onion soup involves a pint of buttermilk, half a large Vidalia onion cut in small chunks, and a quarter-cup of heavy cream. Mix until smooth with a hand-held mixer and add salt to taste.

Very easy gazpacho calls for seedless cucumber cut in chunks, Vidalia onion in smaller chunks, add to V-8 juice and chill for one hour before serving.

I also like Alton Brown's recipe for Vichysoisse and Gourmet's recipe for Sorrel vichysoisse. Have spent a lifetime trying to achieve true vichysoisse suavity on less than a quarter-cup of heavy cream. Have not succeeded, but it helps if you work with smooth, buttery-tasting Yukon Gold potatoes.

That Bourdain... such a gentle, supportive character. I hope he isn't taking the lead in toilet-training his baby daughter: "Listen, numbnuts, EVERYONE can pee in a goddam toilet! What's your fucking problem?"

Ko's bathroom? Looks more like Cousin Ned's bathroom. Anyway, why would you want to get all comfy and settled-in there when you could miss two or three dishes in fifteen minutes? Thanks, Robyn, for the scoop that even Grub Street could not break--and they have a long-running series on bathrooms all over town.

Oh, tell me there are chocolate eclairs and my brother's favorite toasted almond!

Mildly nauseated. I stay out of God's Country, why can't He stay out of mine?

Popcorn and blue Icees!!! Sometimes just the latter. My mom always gets Junior Mints and my best friend always gets Snowcaps, but I am totally an Icee girl.

Wow. Now I know why theatres have to raise their prices so much - it's all of you sneaking in your own food! :P

I eat popcorn to drown out the sound of other people eating popcorn (lucky for me I love the taste as well) - I am so not kidding, I hate chewing noises. It's almost enough to keep me away entirely.

Have you noticed that theaters are nearly empty most of the time? I usually bring some hard candy or cough drops for dry mouth, but the smell of popcorn can really tempt me. On occasion, I'll grab a sandwich or fast food and a drink. A big purse or coat over the arm come in handy.

I hadn't thought to bring cocktails or beer or wine, but why not? We usually go out to dinner afterward, but a pre-dinner drink during the movie would be perfect! I can get a wonderful meal for what a hot dog, soda and popcorn would cost.

Just for nostalgia, I may get some buttered popcorn one of these days. Personally, I'd rather watch a movie on my own TV and be comfy, but a friend gets house bound/stir crazy, so we go to the movies and dinner often.

As I mentioned elsewhere, I really miss drive-in movies, and I'm afraid the low attendance at theaters may mean their demise as well. But in the meantime, might as well make the best of it! I'm real curious about theaters that are also offering meals - that may save them in the long run as long as they don't outprice the average theater-goer.

I love cold soup, as long as it's not chunky. For some reason, cold chunks do not register as food to my brain.

I also love dessert soups.

I have never met a cold soup I liked, to me they either taste like:
a) salad dressing
b) smoothie

NO!