On a recent Sunday afternoon my friends, cookbook author Angela Chang and her husband Humphrey, took me to a very nice lunch at Margaret Kuo’s in Wayne, PA. I had been here a few years previously, when Martin Yan hosted a special The Book & The Cook dinner event. The dynamic Ms. Kuo also owns three … Continue reading
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How Brave is This?
You have to be pretty nervy to launch a new food magazine in this economy. But that is just what Cutty Parker Media has done. I noticed the premier issue of FOOD magazine in CVS recently, with Mario Batali’s mug on the cover, and of course had to give it a try. According to the … Continue reading
Ghee Whiz
I never know what I’m going to find at the Slow Food Winter Farmers Markets held at Tre Piani (see post of January 23). At the one I recently attended, I found organic ghee. Ghee is the clarified butter used in Indian cooking. It’s pretty cheap in the Indian or Asian supermarkets, but of provenance unknown. … Continue reading
Xin Nian Kuai Le!
Happy Chinese New Year! I’ve written and blogged about my dear friend Angela Chang for years, most recently after the delicious New Year’s Eve dinner we shared just a few short weeks ago. Here’s your chance to meet her and discover her cookbook, The Intriguing World of Chinese Home Cooking. She’ll be at Chicklet Books in the … Continue reading
Cozy Congee
The Chinese have a near lock on the perfect cold weather breakfast. It’s stick-to-your-ribs congee, or rice porridge, which is basically a small amount of rice cooked in a large amount of waer. The version pictured here is 8-Treasure Congee, in addition to rice, it contains other grains, red (adzuki) beans, peanuts, lotus seeds, jujubes (like … Continue reading
Joys of Crock Pot
This was excellent crock pot barbecued beef! All I did was to put big cubes (~2-3 inches) of chuck roast in the crock pot, add a sliced sweet onion, a little garlic powder and a shake of liquid smoke. Then I poured on a bottle of regular supermarket barbecue sauce (KC Masterpiece Original in this case). Set … Continue reading
Faux Food
You just never know when and where you might learn something interesting about food. I’d heard of mock apple pie, but never really gave it much thought. Until, that is, I ran across a recent article in Chemical & Engineering News Weekly, when I was looking for information on online recruitment advertising for my day … Continue reading
Craquelin Brioche
Run, do not walk, to Wegmans to buy a loaf of the Craquelin Brioche bread pictured in the photo, on the left (that is sourdough next to it on the right, also quite good). I suspect the brioche, which cost $5, will be a holiday item, and will cry when/if it is no longer offered (hint, … Continue reading
Cutie Pie Too
Now here’s a real cutie pie, as opposed to the peach pie of my August 12 post. This cutie pie is my sister-in-law’s granddaughter, and she’s adorable – and can you tell she knows it? Her mother and grandmother are big fans of good wholesome home-cooked food, and are encouraging the new generation to follow in their culinary footsteps with fun … Continue reading
Spamalotmore
I am LOL at today’s New York Times business section article about Spam. Long the subject of food jokes, Spam is amazingly still around and apparently thriving. This cheap stand-in for ham was first produced in 1937, and in these rough economic times, is proving more popular than ever at around $2.40 for 12 ounces. At … Continue reading
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