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I'd like your recipe for red onion jam - I have lost mine and can't find anything similar!

top split hot dog rolls ( Pepperidge Farm) are available at both my local Food Emporium and D'ags. And that is UES - hardly known for good food sourcing.

And of course Fairway has them too. I don't know about Gristede's et al because I would have to be truly desperate to spend my dollars there.

my own greed, combined with living in Mid Western gastronomic desert ( name witheld to protect the guilty), impelled me to make major investment for me at the time of a Kitchen Aid and hit the cookbooks (pre internet)...

My grandmother was the best apple pie baker, how I wish I had asked her for her secrets. My mother just bought stuff ( made in someone else's home!) except for her version of Bakewell Tart, so no help from her.

sorry linguina - but it comes over as very pretentious to drop the damn H!!
I will survive it however.....

Fairway sell Callebaut chocolate in large hunks But I don't know the current price, used to be very reasonable.

I would rather shop anywhere than NY Cake - rude and expensive. I will tolerate one OR the other but not both.

tomato, sorry was typing with one hand

suckling pig with crispy crackling/skin and tender meat. only I feel a little like a child murderer.

Went to Japan solo when pregnant. Checked into large hotel in remote spa town. The first night they made me eat in the westernized dining room but the second night I insisted on eating with the Japanese, the only westerner . One look at the food I got the pregnancy 'oops ' but had to valiantly eat my way through the whole unrecognisable meal, as EVERY pair of eyes was fixed on me, hoping/expecting that I would concede defeat. I have no idea what I ate or how I kept it down. After that I learnt that every Japanese train station sells sandwiches on pretty good white bread, so goodbye to dream of living on genuine sushi ( this was before bossy guidelines about what to avoid when pregnant).

sorry to so pedantic but your Welsh isn't so hot. it is ka-philly, short a.
Lancashire or Wensleydale cheeses are also traditional. It isn't supposed to be an expensive gourmet cheese, the flavour is altered by the beer and the Worcestershire anyway, so nearly any cheese will do. It's peasant food! so don't waste top notch cheese on this.
Velveeta would give the wrong texture but there is no harm if that's what you want .

Eric Ripert needs to start living in the real world. Even in France today most groceries (and everything else) are bought in hypermarches. And how does he account for the large chain selling only surgeles ( frozen foods)? He's been away too long and is living in the past ( a common French failing, and yes I do love France and the French)

speciality shops and farmers' markets are outside most budgets, and consumers don't have access to many wholesalers who Eric must use.

I will admit that the first time I went to Costco I too fled in horror but then I discovered some (rich) foodie friends shopped there so I gave it another look for items other than cat litter etc. Now, despite the fact that there are only two of us, seniors both, I spend at least 75% of my food dollars there.
The quality of the fruit and vegetables can't be beaten and the large quantities encourage us to eat more, which is no bad thing. Meat can be frozen and is still a better quality for the price that anything I can find.

Costco stocks according to location, the new East Harlem store has a better choice than the Queens store. Friends living in wealthy suburbs inform me that their options are even better. If they stock processed food it is because it sells, blame the customers not Costco. And never forget that they are a very good employer- unlike most of their competitors.

Let's focus on what a fraud Gordon Ramsey really is. He has the gaul to position himself as the master culinary entreprenuer precisely as his restaurant empire teetered towards bankruptcy. He and his father-in-law were humbled into ponying up millions to gain some forebearance from their creditors. I wouldn't be surprised if all of Gordon's net proceeds from these TV programs goes to support the restaurants. But it doesn't look like many of the contestants could balance their own chequebooks so perhaps the real agenda of the show is to clone some more Gordon Ramseys for the World. Has anyone asked us if that is what we need? Perhaps the next series will be a cook-off of competing bankruptcy attorneys vying for Gordo's business.

Unless Costco has changed their policy recently they only accept their own coupons ( which they send out to members at frequent intervals). They do not accept manufacturers' coupons. I was refused in Long Island City and haven't tried since.