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Actually I just went to Cutty's this past week, and I will say that the roast beef sandwich is definitely quite good, but I wish they made their own bread like Mariposa. Still, the sandwich that I hold near and dear to my heart is the BLT at Tosci, in its various permutations. My favorite one had lemon zest rubbed on one side of the bread, scallion oil rubbed on the other, and a filling of August tomatoes, lettuce, and crispy bacon. (However, for perfectly cooked bacon on a burger that shatters upon biting it, but isn't burned, hurry yourself over to Rendezvous.)

Can't go wrong with cornbread stuffing with sausage and apples!

One more- Clover Food Labs has a truck over at Kendall sq, over by MIT Medical. Fabulous vegetarian sandwiches-and I'm not a vegetarian. Try the egg+eggplant, chickpea fritter, or BBQ sriram sandwiches. Rosemary fries are great too, if you're willing to wait ten minutes-they cook them to order. The guy who runs it sources locally and was an MIT engineerig student. Http://www.cloverfoodlab.com

I second Oleana! Also, try Sofra - their middle eastern brunch outpost in Watertown, near Delux Town Diner. Delicious savory and sweet bites.

Desserts are ok at Craigie (we've been several times, to both present and past locations), but not stellar; try either the lemon buttermilk pudding cake at Rendezvous (a couple blocks away from Craigie, and the most transcendent pudding cake you will ever eat - creamy, light, tart, cool, but satisfying) or Toscanini's for ice cream (you can taste as many flavors as you want before picking one), and the hot fudge is as good as it gets.

Petsi Pies has excellent baked goods - scones, cupcakes, pies, etc - it's the stuff they don't have at Clear Flour, and it's better than Rosie's.

If you find yourself in Inman, the spice store adjacent to Christina's ice cream shop is wonderful (it's owned by the Christina's people).

If you find yourself in Chelmsford, Fish Bones is worthy of your attention - fresh, flavorful seafood, not swimming in grease!

And in Chinatown, Gourmet Dumpling House, and I've been going to Hing Shing bakery (by the Chinatown gate) since I was a kid.

I was in Sicily for school (we were doing a site visit for our architecture studio) and we went looking for this hole-in-the-wall restaurant in our guidebook where you could get sicilian-middle eastern fusion couscous on Wednesday nights. The guidebook had been quite trusty, leading us to both good hotels and good restaurants as we drove around the island. The weather was terrible - it was cold, rainy, and hailing occasionally - and in Sicily, there are not many street lights, especially in the less well-traveled areas. Walking around one of the street markets after it had closed, we saw no end of sketchy "bars," if one can call a bunch of folding tables, a few unlabeled bottles, and a bunch of old men, a bar. We finally found the restaurant, but it turned out that they weren't making couscous that night, so instead we stopped in at a fast-food Indian place on a random street corner. Of course it turned out to be the best food we had the whole trip.

Cold chocolate cupcakes, filled with whipped cream and topped with ganache.

I would normally side with the Girl Scouts, but what are you supposed to do if you don't know any Girl Scouts, or live in a place where there are no Girl Scouts? Live in a cookieless hell?

On the matter of silverware...I bought this folding knife/spoon/fork that slots together from SIGG (http://www.mysigg.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=313) that's pretty awesome, in case you need your silverware to be mobile and compact. I also got the My Cutlery set, designed by Benetton, while I was in Taipei back in January: http://www.designkeeper.com/2008/09/my-cutlery-benetton-kitchen-design.htm. Haven't used it as much as the SIGG one, and also it's plastic, but it's cute and fun - you can swap the handles from the fork and spoon to the chopstick attachments!

mister donut is awesome! i was just in taipei for two weeks and we finally caved and bought enough donuts to get enough points for three keychains - one for each of us. they are just as adorable in real life as they look. i was looking around google the other day, and a previous promotion was a pon de lion bento box and bag, which is pretty much amazing.

My roommate tells me that this episode was taped on Aug. 6.

Every time we get bacon at the supermarket (usually from Whole Foods), we render all of the fat from the bacon and spend a month using the rendered fat to make everything else taste more delicious.