Not a cookbook, but there’s an excellent book that I’ve been forgetting to recommend to anyone interested in learning more about Asian foodways. It’s Asian Food: The Global and the Local (Consumasian Book Series).
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Chef Sam de Leoz is hosting Lasang Pinoy 10th Edition! It’s always fun to reminisce about our childhood memories, especially the food-related ones! Your job now is to blog about *your* food memories from your childhood.
When you’ve got your entry ready, leave a comment here or at Chef Sam’s blog, or send an email to […]
Tea is a fundamental part of Chinese life. It is identified, at least in one old Chinese saying, as one of the seven basic necessities in life, the other six being soy sauce, vinegar, salt, rice, fuel and oil. The role of tea in Chinese culture is so important that some authors have […]
Exchange student Sujitra Ueawongchoetchu shares three recipes from her native Thailand, including her Grandma’s Tom Yam Kung. Just the thing on a rainy day such as this.
Who’s in the mood for some cilantro? Jill Wendholdt Silva offers up a recipe for Cilantro Chicken. You may not believe this, but I hated cilantro […]
Out shopping last week at the local grocery and I *thought* these were tortillas at first! Can you believe this? They actually made “colored sushi wraps”. Doesn’t look like sushinori at all though, and I don’t think that was the intention anyway. I was tempted to try it but saw “egg […]
And here it is, katsuo-bushi, the indispensable ingredient that gives life to Japanese dishes seasoned with or cooked in dashi.
Katsuo-bushi is made from the tuna-like skipjack (scientific name Katsuwonus pelamis), or bonito, a member of the mackerel family. The Japanese have been steaming/boiling and drying this fish since the fifteenth century and […]
My hubby left this morning. In his Pyrex portable, shown left, I have put instead the large bento box he brought me home from a Japan trip 5 years ago. Along with 6 colleagues, he’ll be out of town overnight for a project.
My hubby suffers from food allergies, just recently diagnosed. […]
Warm Thai Pork Salad with Asian Ginger Dressing
Mushu Pork Lettuce Wrap
Chicken Soba Salad
Curried Chicken Salad
I’ve been following this rabbit trail all evening. Everytime I click I’m led to more and more Asian cuisine stuff. Five years ago, I would never have believed you if you had told me information would be this easily […]
I just found a treasury of Asian delights, from the Culinary Institute of America!
Worlds of Flavor: Savoring Asia is the CIA’s online coverage of the 2004 WOF Conference. Click on the link and you’ll find essays, recipes, videos, and all kinds of neat information on Asian food.
Some of my favorite features:
The […]
Most of these are open to the public. Click on the links for more information!
April 30, Berkeley, CA: Berkeley International Food Festival
May 5, Cheung Chau, HongKong: Cheung Chau Bun Festival
May 5-9, Boseong, Korea: Boseong Green Tea Festival
May 6-7, Nacogdoches, Texas: Multicultural Festival
May 10-13, Shanghai, China: China Wine and Liquor […]
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