I always use cucumber in my Pimm's Cup, if I can. Take a slice of cucumber lengthwise using a vegetable peeler and toss into your highball glass. (not the external skin, but a peel of the meat) S...

Maya, Assuming you aren't asking for recipes for cocktails with Campari (like the Negroni), one nice classic way to enjoy Campari is with soda water. I like mine with soda and a lim...

Noilly Prat is decent but certainly not top shelf - more middle shelf. (Martini and Rossi dry vermouth is way on the bottom shelf - like right over there, yeah there, where the trash can is.)

Fish twitches, not just eels. Its just that 99% of the population gets its fish wrapped in plastic or pre-filleted off a mound of ice at Whole Foods. Go to Chinatown - where they sell...

under $1500 a month for 1BR downtown is generally a good deal, unless by "heart of the City" you mean the Tenderloin. The key is to find a unit in a building that was built before June...

As noted above, while silly yuppie white people pay $11 on Amazon for this stuff, Latinos have been using dried hibiscus (or jamaica) to make hibiscus tea and syrup for ages. Go to any decent siz...

I've used this kind of peeler - not a big fan. As someone living in a city apartment where space is always at a premium, I like my kitchen tools to be a multi-tasking as possible. This style of ...

Cook's Illustrated did a review of various vegetable stocks which included the Better Than Bouillon. BTB scored poorly - somewhere slightly above "tastes like ass". I think Swanson's came in top,...

Sorry, that should be "directly on the oven rack"

I roast my birds directly on the rack and put a janky old pan underneath to catch the drippings. Cheap, easy and doesn't require taking up valuable cabinet space with some I would only use a few t...

Citrus of all kinds (lemons, limes, grapefruit, & esp. orange). As some mentioned above, the world domination of the navel orange got its start when a couple of cuttings were transferred from Braz...

Not to pick nits, but these types of cocktails should not be shaken over ice. Cocktails with a base plus vermouth (manhattan, martini, brooklyn, etc.) are to be stirred with ice. Shaking them pro...

Those red, white and blue chairs are really fun - as are the stuffed animals poking out behind the sofa. Very kawaii!

Don't listen to the other commenters - they don't know what they are talking about. First - your friend should consult with a lawyer specializing in landlord/tenant law. Or, at minimum...

I work in Oakland and commute evert day by BART from SF. If it weren't for my rent-controlled apartment in SF, I'd be in Oakland - most likely in one of the neighborhoods mentioned - Lakeshore/Gra...

i guess i just don't see what's so 'green' about throwing stuff in the trash that's going to take a million years to decompose and then self-congratulating oneself on the Internet for how environme...

so, um, you threw out perfectly useable existing plastic switch covers which are going to wind up in a landfill and sit there for a million years so you could have "hipper" looking burnished steel ...

That's a Forest City Enterprises property - adaptive reuse, I think, of a former office building - the 1925 Subway Terminal Building. (yes folks, LA used to have a real subway system called the Red...

I agree with the pro-fiberglass crowd. I have one from Modernica and the sturdy but transluscent character just seems light years more aesthetically pleasing than the poly ones I looked at. And a...

i agree with the comments on the sfgate.com website - the article is a 10 on the unintentional comedy scale. the busty gold-diggers, the aging bachelor with dot-com money, the "pied a terre" in on...