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Lately, I've been trying to recreate a favorite dish from New York's Chinatown, Joe's Shanghai's soup dumplings. In case you're unlucky enough never to have had one, they're meat dumplings filled with a hot, tasty broth that you suck out from the top (or your spoon) before you eat the dumpling proper. Delicious. The secret, apparently, is making ...

Kellogg's Yanks Health Claims: The cereal company's getting rid of the immunity claims on its boxes of Rice Crispies and Cocoa Krispies because of the heightened concern people have about swine flu. Meet the White House Food Guru: Sam Kass isn't just another University of Chicago history major-turned-food dude, he's also hugely influential on the ...

The Backyard of Milk and Honey: Hey, city folks, don't you hate how you have to trudge all the way to the grocery to get your honey? Why don't you invest in an urban beekeeping kit, which will probably annoy your neighbors no end until you give them free honey for the first time. (Wonder what the honey from those flowers on traffic islands tastes ...

At least it wasn't a fork: A Chinese kung-fu master swallows a chopstick, then forgets about it for 20 years. Guess what doctors found in his stomach the other day after he complained of a bellyache .... Coupon clipper, Ph.D.: A Texas woman with three young girls lives on $800 a year, including an entire food budget and the occasional restaurant ...

1. What do the poor of Appalachia commonly use as an antidepressant, according to a Diane Sawyer piece? a. apple pie and apple fritters b. beer c. chocolate d. Mountain Dew 2. Angelenos are atwitter over a ''taco'' truck that uses a social-networking Web site to advertise where it'll be serving what kind of food, according to a recent L.A. Times ...

My friend Matt Gross, who happens to be the Frugal Traveler for the New York Times, gets to go to a lot of pretty amazing places in the line of duty, and has as impressive a palate as any I've ever seen. (And one of the oft-repeated stories in my family involves my dad eating bugs in a market in Bangkok ... and managing to gross out even the ...

1. Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundarajev was ordered to step down after being paid to appear on two cooking shows while in office. Himself the former host of a politically oriented foodie show called ''Taste and Grumble,'' Samak went on television again to demonstrate how to make personal favorites such as tom kha salmon, which includes what the PM ...

Environmental Graffiti recalls the fascinating story of Li Ching-Yuen, the Szechuan-born herbalist who supposedly lived to 256 years old (he had obituaries written about him in Time Magazine and the New York Times when he died in 1933). According to stories, he was born in 1677, and when his story was investigated by the government, officials ...

The French dip sandwich turned 100 years old recently, and that's when many of us learned for the first time that it was invented in, of all places, Los Angeles. So now the homely staple your grandfather probably still orders when you eat out joins the multitude of familiar foods with pretender origins. At about the same time, a much less friendly ...

On April 8, South Korea will finally send one of its own into outer space via the Russian spacecraft Soyuz. Ko San will spend about a week at the International Space Station conducting various scientific research, but the biggest scientific discovery may have already happened. The importance of kimchi in Korean culture cannot be understated. It's ...