We couldn’t help but notice the emergence of a little trend here in NYC — restaurants offering food-to-go programs. Guess the philosophy is that if fewer people are dining out during the recession, then restaurants would at least like you to be preparing and eating their food at home. First, we heard that Primehouse New [...]

Ready for a ‘culinary boner’? Our favorite tv show starts up again tonight on Bravo at 10pm. Needless to say, we’re pretty psyched. We’ll be keeping with tradition from last season and preparing a home-cooked meal beforehand to enjoy while we watch the show…and what’s a Top Chef premiere without a recession special value wine. [...]

After a long day trekking around to Wine & Food Festival events, we decided to do dinner and a movie at home. We really enjoyed this under $15 red Bordeaux blend of 90% merlot and 10% cabernet franc. For those of you not familiar with Fronsac, it is a wine region, i.e. appelation, in Bordeaux that sits [...]