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Laundry. This is what kids have done to me.

I fell in love with Cab Frac after having a glass from Del Dotto Winery in Napa. I just had a pretty good one from Wolffer Estate Vineyards in Bridgehampton, NY.

Another good place for Aeropress brewing methods is, erm, Brew Methods. I personally use the Marie Hagemeister 2010 Champion method with a Coava disk filter.

I never wanted to become a coffee snob. Really.

Two posts in one day from you about places that I go to, Daniel. You need to stop stalking me.

The beer list is at least 10 pages long, but it offers a lot of great tidbits of information on the various beers they have. You didn't mention that they have cask ales, where a small keg is filled with beer and given time to carbonate naturally and then a tap or spout is manually hammer to pour the beer.

You did miss out on a fantastic burger, but everything else you said is spot on.

I'd also like to know if you've ever worked with lamb suet. I received about a pound of it in my CSA this year and it has been sitting in my freezer. Maybe I can use it for savory pie crusts? Savory biscuits?

Alton Brown's lentil soup recipe uses grains of paradise and they elevated the dish from everyday ho-hum to wow I can't believe the complexity of this!

I believe the first time I made the trip to the Spice House in Evanston (suburb just north of Chicago) was to procure grains of paradise. I'm glad that I went there, as it's now one of my favorite culinary places to go.

That's too bad about Carmen's. The first time I had it was more than 10 years ago, and I thought it was really good. I had it again 5 years ago and it was just OK. I see that another 5 years has brought it down to mediocre.

Doesn't really matter these days...Art of Pizza is now my main go to for stuffed pizza.

A friend was in from out of town this weekend and wanted to go to Hot Doug's. We ended up waiting about 2 hours for some encased meat and duck fat fries. It was better than I had remembered it to be.

Last year I waited with my brother from out-of-town about 2 hours to eat a heavy-metal-band-named-burger at Kuma's Corner.

That's a lot of waiting for food I've done in my life.

@Kumiko - Jacques Torres actually makes a 60% cocoa chip, their house brand. That's a lower cacao percentage than the Scharffen Berger you tested. The Jacques Torres store in lower west Manhattan has them.

They also have a 72% cocoa chip - I'd definitely like to see that at a bittersweet tasting!

I'm surprised that while a Jacques Torres-inspired recipe was used, you didn't test the Jacques Torres chocolate! Ever since I read about his 36-hour cookie recipe in the NYTimes I was curious about his chocolate, and on a business trip to NYC I had the chance to visit his store in lower Manhattan and get some. His store isn't that far from the SE office, is it?

Anyway, you can order his chocolate online, too.

Needless to say, I use only Jacques Torres chocolate now.

Over Easy in Chicago. A much-needed brunch spot in my neightborhood just steps away from my apartment.

Just tried a recipe from an Australian cookbook for leg of lamb roasted directly on the oven grate, at high heat. Yum.