Man oh man. She's always had questionable practices, and she's alienated a lot of people through inappropriate behavior, claiming others' work as her own, and all in all being a self-serving jerk. BUT: she always claimed to be a pirate, to hate paysites, to support the cause.

Now we have proof:

DL MUNSLOW IS A HYPOCRITICAL TWAT.
Think she'll notice that? I'm sure she's been lurking around here, so she HAS to be expecting we'd call her on it. Unreal.

Oh, me neither...I absolutely ADORE their rattatouille recipe, and the spinach ricotta pie is to DIE FOR. I have eaten at their restaurant a couple of times...they do not disappoint.

Hey...I just went to their website, and it appears they're now doing packaged meals! WOOT!

I'm such an east coast girl, I think of Ithaca, Northampton, and Chapel Hill/Carrboro as crunchy granola food centers of the universe.  (Ithaca is home to the Moosewood Restaurant, famous for their great vegetarian cookbooks.)

I love your cities, Mando. My favorite is Montreal - it's like having a bit of Europe just 3-1/2 hours away.

I haven't heard of it - send me some?  Just kidding - but you know what I think of when I think Food and San Francisco? Rice-A-Roni. Sorry, but that's your legacy. Thanks, Madion Avenue! 

That comes from SanFran? My recipes are all Shaker.

I would.

BTW: I never think of the Grand Tetons and anything in the broad region of the Rockies as 'midwest'. For me, that's the great expanse of wasteland plains from the Dakotas through Nebraska, Kansas, and down into the northern parts of Texas. I spent a week there one afternoon. In contrast, I saw 'awesome' on I-70, from Denver to the middle of Nevada. Absolutely stunning!

The bay area has good food, but I have never found them to have a 'specialty', the way other regions do. Of course, I'm happy to be proven wrong. In person, of course.

BTW: Cala, regarding the promise of a North American food tour, I'm game if you are. Just let me get through this next back surgery, m'kay? 

Oh, I suppose we could do a veritble food tour of North America! We'll have to do the barbecue comparison tour (North Carolina v. Memphis v. Texas v. Kansas City), we'll go up to Montreal for crepes and poutine, Maine for lobster, Baltimore for crabs, Vancouver for salmon, then down to Mexico for REAL enchilladas. We can then do a pizza comparison, bouncing between Chicago and NY, oh, and then we have to go to the Bayou for gumbo and andouille. Meanwhile, we'll hit diners along the highways for probably some amazing pancakes, burgers, and club sandwiches.

And then I'll roll your American-fattened body back on the plane.

Oh, the pizza's just the start. We could spend a week in the city doing nothing but eating at some of the most unique and unusual places in the world. And we can stay away from Midtown, where the real crushing crowds are. And yes, the onions are safe.

Exactly. You have not had pizza until you have had pizza from a little hole in the wall place on, say, Varick Street in SoHo that sells pizza by the slice and has no place to sit down so you're balancing your bottle of coke, your slice, and all the shit you're already carrying, all the while attempting to avoid being pushed aside from some jerk who's late for court as well as the guys selling pirated videos and the sightseer who stops every three feet to ooo and aaah over some piece of crap architecture.

That's fine, Calalily. But the next time you want a REAL slice of pizza, don't come knocking on New York's door...we won't be home.

What? No one's built the Los Angeles-Brisbane Highway yet? Damn.

Yeah, I'm striking out as well on rodini. Perhaps our resident Queenslanders could provide a recipe?

Regarding Comic sans - even my sister, a first grade teacher, has stopped using that font, choosing instead a cooler handwriting font called =http://www.dafont.com/i-hate-comic-sans.fontI Hate Comic Sans.