cuisine
From street-food to fine dining, traditional Italian to Asian-Fusion, being well-versed in global cuisine is the first step to culinary mastery.
My Chinese Food Tour
About twenty years ago I went on a package tour of China, starting in Beijing and then heading south through various cities, finishing in Hong Kong. The sights were amazing, and it was incredibly interesting, but for me, the best thing about the tour was the food.
By James Beck5 years ago in Feast
Nam Jim Jaew
In my twenties I took a spontaneous trip to Thailand. I boarded the plane to Guangzhou, China, and after a lengthy layover, hopped on the next flight to Bangkok. After what felt like innumerable hours spent in burdensome lineups and uncomfortable plane seats, I arrived around midnight; tired, sore, and very hungry.
By Michael Butler5 years ago in Feast
God Bless Bubble Tea
WHAT THE HECK IS BUBBLE TEA? Bubble Tea is a beverage originating from Taiwan that has found a heart in many street food corners around the world. A regular bubble tea is iced tea using condenced and sweetened milk with chewy tapioca toppings. You will find that many bubble tea shops will have their own twists to this including fruit teas, milk teas and toppings can include jelly, balls that pop and balls you can chew.
By Chloe Gilholy5 years ago in Feast
Poppin' Pork: I Learned to Make Tonkatsu During the Lockdown
The COVID lockdown wasn’t so terrible. At least, not for me. Not at first. Sure, the pandemic was terrible, but I would be okay. After all, I was an introvert. I was wired for this sort of thing. I would only leave the house for essential reasons like picking up groceries or prescriptions. I would have time without interruptions to actually do my job and write. And when I was done writing,I had plenty of video games to tide me over until this whole thing ended as quickly as it came.
By Rachael Dunn5 years ago in Feast
Aruban Penne Pasta
I was fortunate enough to be sent to Aruba on a conservation-education trip back in the 1990s. Uncharacteristically, I did not do much “homework” on Aruba and was surprised by it’s desert feel. I was expecting tropical lush Isle. What I got was a lot of scrub brush and scrabble.
By Carolyn F. Chryst5 years ago in Feast
What a Fish Means
I love seafood ever since I was a little kid ordering shrimp cocktail off the kid’s menu on our annual family beach vacation. But the one fish that’s been the most impactful on me, in addition to being one of my favorite meals, has been salmon. I didn’t really understand salmon until I moved from the East Coast to Seattle, in the middle of the Pacific Northwest. Before moving here, salmon was just another (delicious) entrée. But the Pacific Northwest-from California all the way up to Alaska-is where fresh salmon comes from. And it’s also one of the most important fish in the region-scientifically, economically, politically, and culturally.
By Thomas Kennedy5 years ago in Feast
Ale and Beer
Ales and Beer Driving back from Florence to our self catering cottage in Tuscany, we stopped at a random restaurant alongside the road between towns and had a wonderful multi-course Florentine style Italian meal. In Cefalu, Sicily, we went to a restaurant with the hosts of our self catering apartment and had artichokes served in a half dozen different ways. At another Cefalu restaurant we had our first arancinis.
By Cleve Taylor 5 years ago in Feast
