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Cheap fontina is crap. Quality fontina is nice, and it is a lovely melting cheese, good for fondue or creamy grilled cheese sandwiches. It also pairs well with crabmeat--not overwhelming, it allows the crab flavor to shine through. Good for crab au gratin.

That sounds divine! Do you have a link to a recipe or your own tweaked version? I'm getting ready to go pick figs next week! Izzy--here's the link: http://www.emerils.com/recipe/4161/Fresh-Fig-Up-side-Down-Cake-with-a-Hazelnut-Ice-Cream My tweaks included 1)cooking the figs with brown sugar instead...

My crummy grill side-burner is too weak to do anything other than warm sauce. I rub good olive oil all over the filets, grind on some sea salt & pepper, then crank the gas grill up to high. When it is good-n-hot, I stick the filets on the hottest part, wait for a good sear, then flip over and th...

My list includes Mosca's, Vincent's, Venezia, Franky & Johnny's, Antoine's, Shogun, Zea, Jacques-Imos, Ninja, Sake Cafe, Bravo.......

My next door neighbor brought over a dishpan of figs last week, and I made a fig upside down cake, cribbed from an Emeril recipe. You half or quarter the figs and cook in a black iron skillet with butter and brown sugar, then pour over a cake batter, pop in the oven, and bake until done. Just like p...

Try Quince...lovely room, michelin star, Tulane grad chef in the kitchen, his wife runs the dining room. City View restaurant on Commercial (in the Financial District) has great dim sum in a clean, well-run dining room. Get some fresh roasted coffee to take home as a souvenir from Graffeo's in North...

MiLa, 'cause I haven't been yet and I really should go there. Hey, I've been busy....