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The Claw: Actually the only girl we want is Princess Ingrid. Maxwell Smart: Then why did you abduct the others?…
During its seventh season, the X Files television series in which FBI agents investigated paranormal phenomena featured an episode in…
According to the trade magazine Chinese Restaurant News, as of January, 2007, there were 43,139 Chinese restaurants in the United…
You can’t accuse Americanized Chinese food of being subtle. Brash, gaudy and maybe even over-the-top, but never subtle. In fact,…
Years ago, I had the misfortune of working with a technical writer who couldn’t spell his way out of a…
Despite my (then) near eidetic memory and a sesquipedalian lexicon, it was my bumpkinly naivete my friends in Boston found…
1943’s Best Picture Academy Award winner Casablanca is replete with memorable quotes and scenes. Toward the end of the movie,…
Mexican history and folklore recount the story of a remarkable woman who would come to be venerated as a holy…
In the United States Navy and Coast Guard, no one is as revered, respected or admired as a sailor promoted…
In 2009, James Beard Award-winning food journalists Jane and Michael Stern published a terrific tome entitled 500 Things to Eat…
America held hostage! That was the aptly named title of an ABC late-night news program anchored by Ted Koppel from…
When John Lucas, Elizabeth Eisner Reding and Mike Reding, three trusted gastronomes who frequent this blog, heartily recommended I try Best Lee’s,…
There’s a Cantonese saying that translates to “anything that walks, swims, crawls, or flies with its back to heaven is…
The complaint I hear most often about the Duke City dining scene is that we have a lamentable lack of…
When does confidence become audacity? Is there a point at which a claim becomes braggadocio? To what extent can you…
According to the Chinese Restaurant News, a respected trade publication, there are now approximately 36,000 Chinese restaurants in America. That’s…
Have a yen for Chinese or Korean cuisine? Can your appetite be sated only by the nasal-clearing, smoldering heat of…
There are two things I rail against which might classify some of my restaurant reviews as a bully pulpit. One…