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Lines are overrated, and totally empty restaurants are underrated
Some readers (or journalists) ask me if I have further principles for finding good food which are not outlined in my ethnic dining guide or in An Economist Gets Lunch. Of course I do, though many of them are not … Continue reading
Posted in An Economist Gets Lunch, General remarks, General Tips
Tagged Afghan, Haitian, Pakistani, x0dmZj3G214
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Michael Pollan’s “Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation”
Here is the bottom line: The premise of this book is that cooking — defined broadly enough to take in the whole spectrum of techniques people have devised for transforming the raw stuff of nature into nutritious and appealing things … Continue reading
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Tagged Cooked A Natural History of Transformation, fermentation, fermented foods, Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma
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My talk at Arlington Public Library, April 3, 2013
The talk is available on YouTube: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2013 6:00 pm – Food Trucks Open for Business 7:00 pm – Lecture, Q&A with the Author Arlington Public Library, 1015 North Quincy Street, Arlington, VA 22201 (Metro Trip Planner) RSVP … Continue reading
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Dinner with Fuchsia Dunlop
I am pleased to have shared a meal at A&J Manchurian restaurant, in Rockville with the charming Fuchsia Dunlop. You may recall that Fuchsia has written what I consider to be the very best Chinese cookbooks in English and indeed … Continue reading
*Every Grain of Rice*
That is the new book by Fuchsia Dunlop and the subtitle is Simple Chinese Home Cooking. The first recipe I tried (tonight), the vegetarian tofu, was an absolute knockout. Two of Fuchsia’s previous books Revolutionary Chinese Cooking: Recipes from Hunan … Continue reading
“The Locavore’s Dilemma”
The authors are Pierre Desrochers and Hiroko Shimizu (husband and wife), and the subtitle is In Praise of the 10,000 Mile Diet: The publisher’s page summarizes it thus: Today’s food activists think that “sustainable farming” and “eating local” are the … Continue reading
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Tagged Locavore, Locavore’s Dilemma, The Locavore’s Dilemma
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Food Rules!
So how did American food fall to the depths of 1960? In Cowen’s view, it wasn’t the doing of greedy agribusiness in league with the Mad Men. Three great tsunamis wrecked the American palate: Prohibition, the Emergency Quota Act of … Continue reading
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Tagged An Economist Gets Lunch, Emergency Quota Act of 1921, empire of children, Jerry Weinberger, Prohibition
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