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i agree with Linda. I just tried Balthazar's baguette and it was NOT good.
Highly disappointing, in fact.

A dinner scene that is memorable for being cringe-worthy and hilarious (rather than delicious) is the one in "The Birdcage," when the hosts are desperately trying to cover up the homoerotic images on their china and the fact that "Mother Coleman" is actually a man (while she charms the pants off the conservative senator).

Monty Python The Meaning of Life when the fat guy explodes after his after-dinner mint!

By that measure, in my experience -- and I've followed his taste recommendations in both New York and San Francisco, in high-end restaurants as well as holes-in-the-wall -- the best food writer I know of is Ed Levine.

Glad to hear someone ackowledge that reviewing food is something that should be accible to the other 95% of restaurant goers, not just those who like to feel superior. A review of a meal that only 5% of your viewers would ever consider eating is just forgetting your audience or perhaps just appeasing yourself over them. Reviewing food in your mind is for the chef, reviewing it in your words is for readers.

Although it really dates me, I have to go with "Tom Jones".

If you have the forethought--a bacon cheeseburger with onion rings and/or french fries. Follow with a big glass of water and pull down the blackout curtains.

A great big English fry-up. Any permutation of the following: eggs, bacon, sausage, mushrooms, tomatoes, black pudding, chips, bubble and squeak, baked beans and toast. And several cups of tea with lots of milk. It never fails to do the trick!

Bacon, eggs, toast, and grits. I guess that the secret is carbs and fat, baby. Second choice is menudo, if you can get past the texture of tripe.

electrolites,works every time ,the baby stuff that comes in the bottle.grape is best ice cold.

I'm afraid I agree with Christine and Eaterreader. Johnny was in many ways the most brilliant political reporter of his time, and his two passions were politics and food. That was why four presidents sent condolence notes to be read at the service. I suppose I could have left out the pointed jibe, but I was so struck by the perfunctory, impersonal nature of Bush's note (especially compared with the notes of the other former presidents) I felt I had to comment.

Inject politics?! We're talking about Johnny Apple--politics was his bread and butter! It would've been a disservice to his legacy of the telling aside to leave something like that out.

Are you picking your nose in that photo?!