Your Table Talk Menu

• +Articles
  • Cherries
  • Foie Gras
  • Fresh Salmon Season is Ended
  • Fukushima
  • Happy Anniversary
  • Humor
  • I Don’t Want to See Your Butt Crack
  • Mark Okuda’s Rocket Ride to Success
  • Restaurant Highlights – 2011
  • Restaurant Highlights – 2012
  • Restaurant Highlights – 2013 / 10 dining experiences that stand out
  • Restaurant of the Week
  • The California Foie Gras Battle
• Book Reviews
• +Essays
  • 37 Quintesssential Restaurants
  • A Perfect Roasted Chicken
  • A Slice of Live
  • Any Way You Slice it
  • Bad Chefs Fight Back
  • Balsamic Vinegar
  • Best Laid Plans – fast food eggs
  • Buyer Beware
  • Can Restaurants Survive in the Porcessed Foods Era?
  • Charcuterie
  • Cherries
  • CMT / what it is and why it’s a more immediate concern than GMO
  • Comeback for the Perfect Manhattan
  • CONGRESS TO AMERICA’S POOR: Let them eat dirt
  • Culinary adventures in a Strange Kitchen
  • D-Day at Normandy
  • Dumplings
  • Fetishes and Craze / part one
  • Fetishes and Crazes / Part two
  • Foie Gras
  • Fondle the Fennel – A Better Way for Singles to Meet Singles
  • Food Fad
  • FOR RESTAURANT RESERVATION / it’s time to can the ap & pick up the phone
  • Fukushima
  • Hatch chili explosion
  • Helloooo Louvar / the fish that made a confident cook nervous
  • Here’s the Scoop on Gelato and Ice Cream
  • Hollywood Park Race Track / gone but the Short ribs will live on
  • I Don’t Want to See Your Butt Crack
  • I Never Go Shopping Alone
  • Is It Lox, or Smoked Salmon, or Gravlax
  • It Started With Tapas
  • It’s Pixie Time
  • Let’s Talk Deli
  • Life cycle of a restaurant
  • Moscow Mules & Perfect Manhattans
  • Notes from the Farmers’ Market
  • Olive Oil
  • On the Tricky Subject of Tipping
  • Portable Edibles
  • +Rants
    • Donald Trump or the Farmers who Support Him?
    • Give me a menu and take that QR code away
    • I Don’t Want to See Your Butt Crack
    • The Annoying Snobbery of Top 50 Restaurant Lists
    • Who’s Crazier
  • Smoking in Restaurants
  • The Annoying Snobbery of Top 50 Restaurant Lists
  • The California Drought / coming soon to your super market?
  • The California Foie Gras Battle
  • The Confusing World of Meat You Eat
  • The Dinner Party Wine Trap
  • The four-century journey of the ubiquitous bagel
  • The Immortal Cake
  • The Saga of the British Sausage
  • The Two-Part Secret to a Good Steak
  • Turning Down the Volume on Internet Reviews
  • Unscrambling the mystery of the words on those egg cartons
  • Vacation rentals / It’s always the kitchen
  • Was It an Orgy or an Odyssey?
  • What would you not eat?
  • Whatever Became of the Flavor in Our Eggs
  • Why the CMT Generation Loves Fast Food Burgers
• +Ethnic Dining
  • Chinese
  • French
  • Hawaiian
  • Indian
  • Irish
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Jewish
  • Korean
  • Mexican
  • Russian
  • Spanish
  • Thai
  • Ukrainian
• Food Books
• +Healthy Dining
  • Any Way You Slice It
  • But I Still Love to Eat – 10th Anniversary
  • Can Restaurants Survive in the Processed Foods Era?
  • Cherries
  • CMT / what it is and why it’s a more immediate concern than GMO
  • Fish
  • Fukushima
  • The Immortal Cake
  • Unscrambling the mystery of the words on those egg cartons
  • Why the CMT Generation Love Fast Food Burgers
• +Holiday Specials
  • Italian
  • Jewish
  • New Years Eve
  • Thanksgiving
• Household Hints
• +Memoirs
  • 125 years of kosher dll pickles
  • A 50-Year Love Affair with Sacramento
  • A Palace of Memories
  • Comeback for the Perfect Manhattan
  • Hollywood Park Race Track / gone but the Short Ribs will live on
  • Memory Lane
  • Moscow Mules & Perfect Manhattans / everything old is new again
  • MY MOST MEMORABLE MEAL
  • Remembing David Shaw
  • Scandia
  • SUMMERS WITH DAD
• Old Country Ukrainian food
• Online shopping
• +Recipes
  • A handy guide for making killer salads
  • Baked Eggs
  • Barbecue
  • Beans
  • Beef
  • Breakfasts
  • Brisket
  • British Bangers
  • Cajun
  • Chicken
  • Chinese
  • Dessert
  • Doggie Bag Steak Dinner
  • Dumplings
  • Eggs
  • +English
    • Bubble and Squeak
  • Fish/Seafood
  • French
  • Grilling
  • Ham
  • Hatch Chili enchiladas
  • Irish
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Jewish
  • Kitchen Quickies
  • Kosher dill pickles
  • Lamb
  • Matzo Balls
  • Mexican
  • Moscow Mule
  • Mushroom soup
  • Omelettes
  • Pasta
  • Perfect Manhattan
  • Pork
  • Pot Roast
  • Rumanian
  • Seafood Gumbo
  • Short Ribs
  • SOUP’S ON / dad’s favorite Navy bean soup
  • +Soups
    • Seafood Gumbo
  • Southwest
  • Spinach Salads
  • Steak
  • Sui Mai
  • Tomato salad
  • Turkey
  • Vegetables
• +Restaurants
  • Ann Arbor
  • Baltimore
  • Bay Area
  • Berkeley
  • Beverly Hills
  • Boston
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  • British Columbia
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  • Calais
  • California Gold Country
  • Cambria CA
  • Canada
  • Chicago
  • Corvallis
  • England
  • Fla
  • Folsom CA
  • France
  • Hollywood
  • I-5 California
  • Indian
  • Ireland
  • Irvine
  • Issaquah
  • Italy
  • Kansas City
  • Kauai
  • Kennebunkport MA
  • Lake Como Italy
  • Las Vegas
  • Let’s Talk Deli
  • Lexington North Carolina
  • Locke
  • Los Angeles
  • Louisville
  • Lynwood
  • Manhattan
  • Mark Okuda’s rice to sushi fame
  • Maui
  • Memory Lane
  • Memphis
  • Mich
  • Michigan
  • Napa Valley
  • Nashville
  • Nathan’s Famous
  • New Orleans
  • New York
  • North Carolina
  • Oakhurst CA
  • Old Country Ukrainian food
  • Oregon
  • Paris
  • Pasadena
  • Pebble Beach CA
  • Philadelphia
  • Sacramento
  • San Bernardino
  • San Diego
  • San Francisco
  • Santa Monica
  • Savannah
  • Seattle
  • Sedona
  • Sherman Oaks
  • Solvang CA
  • Sonoma County CA
  • Sooke
  • St. Louis
  • Studio City
  • Tampa
  • Tarzana
  • Taylor Texas
  • Texas
  • Tofino
  • Toronto Canada
  • U.S. 101 – CA
  • Vancouver Island
  • Victoria
  • Washington State
  • Westchester
• +Travel
  • A commitment to locally-owned restaurants on a west coast road trip
  • A Culinary Corridor / the I-5 from L.A. to Seattle
  • A FOOD LOVER’S JOURNEY
  • A FOOD LOVER’S TREK
  • Across the Pond
  • Aloha from Kauai
  • Amador County Day Trip
  • An America Abroad at a Strange Time / it took 18 years
  • +An American Abroad at a Strange Time / departure
    • An American Abroad at a Strange Time / Au Rivoir
    • An American Abroad at a Strange Time / D-Day at Normandy
    • An American Abroad at a Strange Time / home(s) away from home
    • France
    • Happy Eating in Trump-Free France
    • then and now
    • You want to talk old?
  • An American Abroad at a Strange Time / how a GPS can cause a monumental traffic jam
  • Ann Arbor
  • Baltimore
  • Barbecue Tour
  • Bayeux
  • British Columbia
  • Brooklyn
  • Burgers
  • but we’re back
  • California Gold Country
  • California’s Other Great Wine Region
  • Cambria CA
  • Canada
  • Chicago
  • England
  • Florida
  • France
  • In the South of England – 2014
  • Ireland
  • Ireland & England 2022
  • Italy
  • Kansas City
  • Kauai
  • Kennebunkport MA
  • Las Vegas
  • Lexington North Carolina
  • Los Angeles
  • Louisville
  • Maui
  • Memory Lane
  • Memphis
  • Napa Valley
  • New Orleans
  • New York
  • New York Finger Lakes
  • Oakhurst CA
  • Observations from the Highway
  • On the Go
  • Ontario
  • Outer Banks NC
  • Road Trip
  • Sacramento
  • San Francisco
  • Scotland
  • Seattle
  • Solvang CA
  • Sonoma County
  • Sooke
  • St. Louis
  • St. Paul
  • Taylor Texas
  • This Time I Will Eat Haggis
  • THIS TIME I WILL EAT HAGGIS / a golfer’s commitment to the Scottish national dish
  • Tofino
  • Toronto Canada
  • TRAVELS WITH JENNIFER AND LARRY
  • Two Line Cooks on a Cross-Country Drive / with food notes
  • Vacation rentals / It’s always the kitchen
  • Vancouver Island
  • Victoria
  • Was It and Orgy or any Odyssey?
  • We Passed this way Before
• Wine