Congrats to the graduates of 2012 – whether it’s elementary, middle, high, medical, law, culinary or beauty school you deserve a hearty milestone pat on the back and some celebratory eats. So let’s party!
A friend was throwing a kitschy “Mad Men” dinner party, taking a nostalgic trip back to the cocktail culture of the ‘60s. Everything was flawless down to the Jackie O’ tablesetting, classic Caesar Salad and flaming Steak Diane.
Whenever I see shrink-wrapped heads of Iceberg lettuce piled high in produce aisles, a memory peg from childhood lights up in my brain.
The Habit Burger Grill, a California-based restaurant brand, announced recently the opening of its third San Diego area restaurant in Solana Beach on Wednesday, May 30, located at 909 Lomas Santa Fe Drive just east of the 5 freeway. With two existing restaurants in Mission Valley and Carmel Mountain, and over 50 locations across California and Arizona, The Habit continues its expansion in its home state with this new restaurant in Solana Beach.
TV chefs are the new rock starts of our pop culture. They are idolized, adored, emulated and seemingly have the inspirational powers to convert culinary agnostics into devoted cooks.
Mothers throughout centuries have been treasured, honored and, yes, roasted.
These days, intrepid amateur farmers enjoy everything from freshly laid eggs from their backyard coops and freshly picked herbs, fruits and veggies from their eclectic water-conserving landscapes to homemade dairy products and vino. Now you can become a do-it-yourselfer in the kitchen and garden this spring, too, with these kits.
Marvelous mushrooms — 40,000 species in all — were once feared by the ancients as a poisonous foe. Many Roman emperors allegedly were victims of death by mushrooms, including Tiberius and Claudius, along with Pope Clement VII, Alexander I of Russia and Abe Lincoln’s mom, Nancy Hanks, who succumbed after drinking tainted milk from the family dairy cow who ruminated toxic mushrooms.
The office of Solana Beach’s Pamplemousse Grille is stacked floor to ceiling with hundreds of cases of wine to fill the restaurant’s extensive list of more than 2,100 bottles — likely the biggest wine selection in the city.
One hundred years ago on a chilly evening of April 14, 721 third-class passengers were having a jolly High Tea on the F Deck in their spartan saloon in “steerage”; 285 wayfarers were enjoying a hearty-yet-elegant meal in the second-class saloon; and 337 first-class passengers (including business magnate John Jacob Astor IV and socialite/philanthropist Molly Brown) all bedecked in extravagant bling, beaded evening gowns and crisp white tuxes as cool as the icy waters of the North Atlantic, were luxuriating in the first-class dining room on the R.M.S. Titanic for a 10-course gustatory orgy.
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