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I've started tempering the eggs when I make this; otherwise they tend to curdle on me and it becomes spaghetti with scrambled eggs.

6 dollars worth of ingredients would let you make at least 50 dumplings of similar or better quality. Pass.

Katz's is known for one thing, but since they've stuffed so much garbage onto the menu, I think they deserve to be called out for it. It's not like leaving a half-assed salad on the menu at a steakhouse for vegetarians; this is a deliberate attempt to con chumps out of more money. Why else would you serve this tripe?

Note: They should serve more tripe.

Any word on when the Baogette will open on Christopher St.?

The worst thing for me is apostrophes that just show up in the middle of nowhere. "Ten items or less" is frustrating, "Ten item's or less" makes me murderous.

I really a recipe I found for tagliatelle with beef short ribs and shaved chocolate - really!

I have a pretty solid minimum tip of around $4. Just because I only ordered $10 of food, I don't think the service charge should be shrunk down to less than $2.

Ouch, my native tongue hurts.

Ribeye, definitely.

As far as I'm concerned, you might as well fake an injury and park in a handicapped spot. After all, you might really not like walking to the store!

Allergies are very serious, and when people ask for accomodations, everyone needs to assume they're in earnest. Liars blow that sky high.

Every winter, I see some beautiful horseradishes at the market, but other than as a topping for roast beef sandwiches and the like, I don't know what to do with them. Any ideas?

Sounds tasty, but that's defintely not my New York-style chili, which relies heavily on canned San Marzano tomatoes, and a beef-pork-veal mix that's borrowed from ragu bolognese. Oh, and chipotles in adobo.

I was at an all-you-can-eat sushi place in New York City a few years ago, and fairly quickly ordered and ate through a selection of the usual good stuff - mackeral, tuna, salmon, etc.

But at the bottom of the menu, there were a few things that only had names in transliterated Japanese. And thinking, hey, it's free! and How bad it could it be, it's only one bite? we asked about what they were, receiving only a few vague tastes - "sour!" or "very good!"

Well, it wasn't a total loss until we got to something called "natto." Despite the waiter's assurance that this was very popular in Japan, and we should have it, and we would love it, this is the foulest thing I've ever eaten in my life.

Natto is some kind of fermented soybean thing, I think, except apparently fermented in a cat's stomach which is then induced to vomit into a handroll. That's what it looked like - stringy and chunky and with a distinct texture of snot. And it tasted worse. Far worse.

The sushi was $20 plus the cost of anything you didn't finish. The natto, unfinished, cost $5. Best five bucks I ever spent to not have to eat the rest of that.