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- Cauliflower And Bresaola “Carpaccio” With Parsley Oil
I’m sure I am opening myself up to many additional pieces of hatemail and accusations of “zenophobia” [sic], but I’m laying bare last weekend’s Iowa City food diaries anyway, with the ground-breaking observation that Midwesterners eat not-so-great food, and too much of it. (To be fair, I started eating trash on the morning of my […]
- Some Unusual Breakfast Foods
Yes, I like Spam. I like it, as Hong Kong people do, in soup, with macaroni and frozen mixed vegetables. For breakfast. Preferably with Horlicks (an unfortunately-named malted milk drink, originally from Britain, but now consumed only in former colonies), and puffy toast spread with salted butter and sweetened condensed milk. You can take your […]
- In Which I Complain Profusely About The State of Sushi In America
Psst: I hate super-rolls. Caterpillar rolls, dragon rolls, rolls wrapped in eel and stuffed with avocado, rolls wrapped in avocado and stuffed with eel, spicy tuna rolls, spicy crunchy salmon rolls: they all taste exactly the same–which is to say, of avocado. Now, I like avocado as much as anybody, but come on. I am […]
- Aerial Rant and Noodle Soup Odyssey, Part I
I’m starting this entry five and a half hours into a fifteen-hour plane ride. Technology! This is the first plane I’ve ever flown in with an electrical outlet at every seat, not to mention enough computer games (crosswords included) to make a nerd like me want the ride to go on just a little longer. […]
