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Filed under: Wine , Asia , Trends , Thanksgiving , Fall Yesterday I posted about the annual release of Beaujolais Nouveau--and why I think you should try a Cru Beaujolais instead. Some commenters told me that they'll stick with the Nouveau version, and Read More...
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Filed under: Asia , Spices , Ingredient Spotlight Pandan is the leaf of the Pandanus amaryllifolius plant. It's ubiquitious in Southeast Asian cooking, especially in desserts. Pandan is used in curries and meat dishes, wrapped around chicken and fried, Read More...
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Filed under: Asia , How To , Local Eating Traveling to China? Peripatetic couple Audrey Scott and Daniel Noll of the Uncornered Market blog have a five-part series demystifying Chinese food and eating habits. The series includes a lesson on fiery Sichuan Read More...
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Filed under: Lunch , Asia , Food Oddities , Rice For your lunchtime pleasure, I'm presenting a series of my favorite bento boxes. Bento are Japanese home-prepared meals served in special boxes, usually eaten for lunch at work or school. These days, bento Read More...
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Filed under: Dinner , Asia , America , Comfort Food , High-fructose corn syrup , Fast Food First off, I should probably admit that I'm a huge fan of Trader Joe's. Like many people, I go there every week or two; unlike many people, my pilgrimages involve Read More...
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Filed under: Dairy , Asia , Health & Medical , Food News Last week, ABC News revealed in an article that a baby formula from China was made illegal in the U.S. after the death of a Chinese infant was traced to its food. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration Read More...
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Filed under: East Coast , Beef , Cheese , Asia , Food Oddities , Fall Saturday was the 13th day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, so I decided to celebrate by visiting a Malaysian burger shack. And I didn't need to hop on a plane to do it either. Thanks Read More...
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A recent Saturday afternoon found me cruising the aisles at a large downtown Chinese market that I’d somehow never been to in all my years of living in this town. Naturally, I made a beeline for the candy section. All the usual suspects were there – Kasugai Read More...
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Filed under: Beer , Chocolate , Asia , New Products , Valentine's Day , Winter That's right! This December, Beer made with chocolate will be available from the Japanese company Kirin. What can be better than the mixture of these two alluring and bewitching Read More...
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Filed under: Asia , Food News Floods did not keep people away from a restaurant in Xiangfan, China. In fact, the floods not only brought in the water, they brought in the people. According to Ananova , "The owner said he was prepared to temporarily close Read More...
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Filed under: Asia , Pork , Caribbean , Did you know? , Islands , America , Italy , Slow cooking , Head to Tail As I wrote several weeks ago, a pig pickin' is a North Carolina tradition involving a pig, a converted petroleum drum cooker, a bunch of charcoal Read More...
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Filed under: Asia , Books New York Times reporter Jennifer 8. Lee traveled the world to crack the case of the fortune cookie's cryptic origins, hunt for the infamous General Tso and track chop suey back to its creator. Turned out, many of the answers Read More...
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Filed under: Asia , On the Blogs Apparently that's how they do things in Japan, at least some people. One gift that you can give a new mother is a bag of rice with the new baby's image on it. Oh, and the bag of rice weighs the same amount that the new Read More...
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Filed under: Business , Asia , Fruit , Food Oddities , Newspapers A black watermelon fetched $6,100 at a Japanese auction on Friday, making it one of the most expensive melons ever sold. The 17-pound black-skinned "Densuke" watermelon drew the unusually Read More...
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Filed under: Asia , Cookbook of the Day Originally published in 1973, An Invitation to Indian Cooking was Madhur Jaffrey's very first cookbook. She moved to New York City from India in the early 1960's and started cooking when she started craving the Read More...
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