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If someone has an idea for these celery bitters I just got, I'm all ears. Otherwise, Campari, Benedictine, Carpano Antica, and absinthe are current topics in my mind.

Pizza.

I LOVE YOU ROOSTER SAUCE.

@ineedtacos Make an account (it's free), you'll be able to choose shipping options. It's a horrible website, but you can get the total down to "just" $14.29. A Google shopping search will turn up resellers as well.

I hope bubble tea finally busts open wide in the 'burbs. It's still an oddity in Fairfield County CT. PLEASE tell me I'm wrong by replying with bubble tea venues !

BlendTec. Don't be dubious because of the "Will It Blend" series--this thing makes blending an event! Ours even keeps track of how many times it's been used (its heritage as a commercial blender, I guess). Gives new meaning to the word "pulverize."

Take a look at ones used at bars or at Starbucks... good chance it's a BlendTec, too.

Try the dark chocolate Ghirardelli mix, find it for $2.75 (the going rate at any Stop 'n' Shop in CT, anyway), and enjoy. If _anything_ tastes 100 times better than that, it must be the brownies in heaven. There's no way I'd spend $16 on something that requires the same effort as doing it from scratch.

Personally, I like the "more red wine" advice as I find Gewürztraminer distasteful. I gotta like it more than I like the pairing. If I need to pick a recipe to qualify for the contest, I'd say "Buffalo Turkey"!

Ingest 3/4 stick of butter. Add cheese, meat, salt, and cheese. Call lawyer, revise will and get affairs in order.

If you do a followup: http://www.arcudis.com/ (Westport). Renowned for their NYC Sicilian-style pie, which has a tasty crust and weighs about 4.5 lbs.

A "Top Chef-free" feed would be greatly appreciated. I know people care about this reality TV show (judging by the volume of comments), but as someone who never ever watches it, the amount of copy written, and effort dedicated, to each post about it are inscrutable to me. To generalize it, being able to customize a feed by excluding certain tags (the aforementioned filter) would be great.

Thanks for including Stew's, even though it's pretty much CT/NY suburban entity with only 4 stores. I hear Wegmans rocks, to the point of being a travel destination, as is reflected by this survey.

Bagels and cream cheese, nothing fancy.

Kate's Homemade or Kerrygold. Both available at our local Stop n Shop, amazingly...