"ribs" news and stories

Manhattan bistro Florent closes after 23 years, downtown types reminisce about late night onion soup and drag queens.

The Minimalist explains how to use your oven like a grill. Try his thrice-cooked ribs if it rains on your Memorial Day picnic.

Eating cupcakes and cannolis at the new Brooklyn flea market.

Eric Asimov discusses the dubious legacy of Robert Mondavi.

Grilled spring onions with Spanish romesco sauce. Recipe!

Asimov's back, reviewing wine-related books.

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Spoilers! Spoilers!

On last night's episode of Top Chef, judge Tom Colicchio arrived at a Chicago Bears game wearing a Bears jersey, a scarf, and a beret. Honestly, it doesn't get more Top Chef than that. The show loves to engage with people and local foods of the cities where it tapes, but in the end its really just about whose pineapple is grilled to perfection and whose liver coconut slaw (don't worry -- not a real dish) doesn't have enough seasoning. You can't help but love it.

• A big selection of cookie and candy recipes for the holidays.
• I'm not much of a seafood fan, but I do love scallops.
• Want to cook a goose this Christmas? It's easier than you think.
• A look back at some of the best cookbooks released in 2007.
• Globe food photographer Beatrice Peltre won an award from the Well-Fed Network for her work.
• Restaurant reviews: Jalapenos and Little Mexico.
• This week's recipes: Chocolate and Walnut Torte, Gingersnaps, Saturday Afternoon Pasta, Soy-Glazed Baby Back Ribs, and Omelet Sante.

Who knew?

Obviously, I knew that you could order semi-prepared foods and have them delivered to home from a variety of sources, whether that's getting steaks from Omaha Steaks or a Crab Boil in a Box. However, I have never seen Korean food, particularly galbee until I spied it in this season's Dean & Deluca catalog!

Sure, I know there are online sources for ordering various Korean and other Asian foods like kimchee, tofu, and I am sure that they will send marinated galbee, bulgogi and other Korean BBQ meats. I just found it amusing that Korean galbee was popular enough to be included as part of a package from Dean & Deluca called the Rib Feast in which the other ribs are all American ribs - St. Louis, Country Spareribs, and Beef Ribs.

Weird, but neat.

Non-U.S. TV commercials often make me howl with laughter. The latest spot from Canada's Boston Pizza sounds equally hilarious from the description I just read in Nation's Restaurant News. Unfortunately I couldn't find a clip of it anywhere.

Here's how it goes. The voiceover says that the Clarks have gargantuan hands. Soon we see that such appendages aren't exactly, um, handy. Mr. Clark slams his grotesque finger with a hammer as he tries to put together a birdhouse and Mrs. Clark can't seem to put in her contact lens. And poor junior can't put any of his hard-earned coins into his piggy bank.

The solution for their woes is of course heading to Boston Pizza where those hands prove to be more useful. While noone would blame you for thinking that spot shows them eating pizza with their gigantic mitts, that's not the case. Seems their oversized meathooks prove perfect for holding a full rack of ribs.

And just what are ribs doing in a place named Boston Pizza? I'm not sure, but my meat-and-fire-loving alter ego, Joey Deckle, wouldn't set foot in such a place with 10-foot hands.

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