When word of his Nascar book got around, a foodie friend wondered aloud if Batali had finally "jumped the shark" with this book.

There's nothing romantic about the narrow windowless room, but it's great interactive fun for families or groups of foodie friends.

Stuck for ideas for foodie friends and family?

"It's good," Ms. Cora said recently over dinner with a group of foodie friends at the Spotted Pig in the West Village.

If those names don't mean anything to you, check with your foodie friends; they'll be able to tell you all about them, just as soon as they stop drooling.

Still, he couldn't resist a parting shot: "I bet your foodie friends won't like this restaurant."

A foodie friend who ridiculed us for putting his roasters on our wedding list, well they have seen weekly use and lasted 9 years just fine thankyou very much.

Local foodie friends told us we had made a mistake by not visiting Marque, whose chef, Mark Best, was trained by Alain Passard at l'Arpège in Paris and by Raymond Blanc near Oxford in the English countryside, to taste his boudin blanc with lentils.

So I asked my top foodie friend, James for his opinion of Soprano's.

THE young doctor from Huntington and his foodie friends were looking forward to a real adventure in eating.