Help Haiti

January 15, 2010
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Photo: Marco Dormino/ The United Nations
By now, you’ve all seen the scenes of chaos following the earthquake in Haiti earlier this week. Some of you may have even given a donation already to one of the many great organizations providing aid.
I will be donating 100% of ad revenue this month to the World [...]

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Pappa Al Pomodoro

January 12, 2010
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Pappa al Pomodoro is a rustic tomato and bread dish that’s half-way between a soup and a porridge. It’s best made with vermillion hued, plump skinned tomatoes, birthed under the Tuscan sun, but it’s also the kind of soul warming meal you crave after trudging home from work on a frigid winter day. A paradox, [...]

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Kuromame (black soy beans)

January 9, 2010
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Growing up in a mixed ethnicity household in California, we tended to observe more western holidays than ones from the homeland, but o-shougatsu (Japanese New Year’s) was one notable exception. Perhaps it was because my mother and I were both motivated by food, or maybe it was the opportunity to bond over something that neither [...]

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Cioppino (Seafood Soup)

January 6, 2010
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Cioppino with dungeness crab, shrimp, manila clams, and sea bass.
Christmas for our family is a holiday for all of us to come together and share an entire day of food; it also happens to be my mother’s birthday. Since she’s more of a pescatarian than a carnivore, traditional Christmas dinners like ham and goose [...]

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Osechi Ryori (Japanese New Year’s Food)

January 2, 2010
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I’ve written about Japanese New Year’s traditions and I’ve even posted some typical Japanese New Year’s dishes. But this year I decided to go whole hog and make an Osechi Jubako from scratch.
You’d think after my recent ramen post (which was nearly a decade in the making), I’d be done with insanely time consuming [...]

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Tonkotsu Ramen

December 30, 2009
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This post may have been a year in the making, but I’ve been working on this tonkotsu ramen for the better part of the last decade. In case you haven’t been indoctrinated into the wonderful world of ramen, Tonkotsu broth is the Holly Grail of noodle soup broths. It is thick, creamy and nearly white [...]

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No Recipes vol. 17

December 27, 2009
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I hope everyone is having a good holiday season. I’m back at home in my frigid NYC condo reminiscing about the good food and company I had over the weekend in the SF Bay Area, and I wanted to share some of the choice morsels No Recipes style.

Uni with Butter on Crostini – Thin [...]

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Bourbon, Beer and Beef Stew

December 20, 2009
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Big chunks of beef chuck make this hearty beef stew the perfect solution to a cold winter day.
Waking up this morning I was greeted by a gleaming white wonderland outside. It had snowed nearly a foot overnight, and the city looked bright and shiny with it’s newly minted facade. Being a relative newbie to [...]

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