Yep, some fun new ingredients for me. My local asian/korean/hispanic market has the fresh tumeric but no sign of the daun salam. I was at a highly thrilling government procurement meeting today and asked a friend, who is indian...

this with lamb chops (not a FT recipe, I still can’t tear myself away from My Bombay Kitchen’s spice rubs for meat!) and the tomato gratin from another Spring Menu in FT. All in all, a huge success, everything went...

the punches

He punched a wall — hard enough to dent a locker. Sorry, but that is completely inapproriate in any context, I don’t care how steamed Dale was or why.

can save us from the mediocrity of the greater American food landscape it is him. Never afraid to roll his sleeves up and throw the necessary punches, his words are always dead on! I didn’t disagree with a single word. I am...

's Indian food without the spice and flavor of bone-in meat, Thai without the punch of sweet-salty-hot, Italian without seasonality and balance. When foods are reduced to the most common denominator, it’s like living in a...

. The teacher decorated the classroom, and we had punch and cookies, and our teacher had a going away present for her: a pen and stationery so she could write to us. But she never did. We sat silently next to each other all...

nah, i frankly think that’s an excuse. life is full of change and even “old” (it’s all relative) folks can and do roll with the punches, esp. when the need is great (and esp. if there’s good,...

wheat or corn, and thus many governments are looking into devoting resources to growing potatoes as a way to address the rising cost of food. Here’s a link to the article:...

/she is usually the problem...and they are not tipped. It’s frustrating when the food is good – or even downright craveable – but you just can’t stand dinning in. (Take out just doesn’t have the same...

on the snarkiness. Ultimately you get his humor or you don’t. Given some kids in school didn’t get his humor he probably got punched a lot which only made him snarkier. Once a defense tool...now it’s a money...