Category: Food
I’m Not Dead Yet: Chicken Soup for the Body
I’m not dead yet - although this blog has been allowed to languish at the doorstep of death for a couple of months, to my shame. Between the vortex of the holiday season and the single worst upper respiratory virus I’ve EVER had, I can sympathize - I’ve felt like I was going to die ...
Foods That Changed Me; Fish Sauce Chicken Wings
Ask any foodie, and they can probably rattle off a handful of meals that had a profound effect on them - dishes that changed their perspective on an ingredient or culture, that inspired them to learn a new technique, that evoke a particular memory, that have a hold on them in a way that can ...
The Mystery of the Green Soup: Caldo Verde
One of my favorite soups for both warm weather and cold is caldo verde - Portuguese for, appropriately enough, "green soup", a name that comes from copious amounts of thinly sliced leafy kale, giving it a deep green color in the bowl. It has a short, inexpensive ingredient list - consisting of olive oil, garlic, kale, potato, ...
Army Stew, and the Allure of Stone Soups
Korean food was once a rarity in Seattle, but over the past ten-ish years it has spread like wildfire, to my never-ending delight. Tofu soup and tabletop BBQ joints have popped up in neighborhoods all over the city, and with them comes, every so often, my favorite Korean dish: budae jjigae, AKA “Johnson Tang”, AKA ...
Raclette is Food Porn for Cheese Fetishists
“Are you sure you’re ready for this?” The woman standing in front of me holds up her heavy-bladed scraping knife and raises her eyebrows. Her tone of voice would be appropriate for the attendant at a bungee jump, or a skydiving instructor. I nod and try to hide the excitement in my voice. “I’m ready, ...
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