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Originally Posted by asianthree
Many who live here traveled for a living, in the US, and Europe. It not being a food snob it’s the food you have enjoyed most of your life. We traveled to Europe in the summers, with our children, and our oldest loved it so much he moved there for 7 years. They would board the train with their bikes and eat some of the most amazing food, and drink wine that had a hand written name on the bottle.
We were not raised on processed food, more of a farm to table, except it was our farms. I have only drank milk from the cows in the barn as they were milked. I don’t drink store bought milk, it’s yuck. Our eggs came from the chickens in the coop, Our beef and pork came from a different paddock, on the farm. Our fruit, and veggies were picked as we used then, or had to do a full harvest. I didn’t know what a grocery was until I moved to my first apartment.
Hard to say which food we loved the best around the country. But if I am going to spend money in a restaurant, it’s going to be something I have not mastered well enough to make at home.
As for Toojays, once you have been to NYC, there is not a deli, or a bagel place that comes close, in TV. We all had different lifestyles, and for some food, and wine is a big part of that experience.
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My problem is the supposition that people who are not critical day in and day out have not been exposed to good food. I don't think an expensive steak and a baked potato and an expensive liquor is fine dining. I think a lovely leg of lamb with rosemary and garlic and three amazing vegetable sides and an exquisite freshly baked bread plus a great dessert is fine dining. I love hassenpheffer and coq a vin and pork and sauerkraut and turtle soup and a good brie with fruit. I adore escargot with clarified butter. I like a simple baked white fish with butter. I plumb adore my own peach pie. I don't drink alcohol anymore. I had a bout with chemo that stopped me. I am deadly allergic to shellfish but oh I loved them and miss them. My father was a wine gourmet, and had an amazing tongue. He was a brewmaster as was my grandfather and they always provided beautiful food for our guests.
But if I had nothing but hamburgers and corn all of my life and enjoyed it, fine. No one has the right to belittle another's taste or talk down to them. I traveled to New York city once a month for many years. They have excellent food, but so does Cincinnati, Ohio.
As for Toojays, try their chicken livers in cream sauce with onions... very good. Not quite Esterhazy Rostbratin, but very good. And so is the way I make cauliflower, but I am tired of arguing about that. I will be gone for a few days. I am royally pithed. Just so you all know I haven't been banned.