shutitdown: taking one for the anecdote

food

° Gastro-blogging  Lina: do you think i should make a separate blog about food Lina: and just have this one about my...
° Vietnamese sandwiches don't let you down  Sometimes I think that I'd probably be a lot better off if instead of people in my life, I...
° Tom Sawyer and Korean B-B-Q  Someone was telling me the other day that she's started hanging out at the bead store and making her own...
° Streetside eating in Bangkok  I know I’ve written about Bangkok street food before. But like all obsessive, boring people, I like to come...
° The meal that made me homeless  The other night I made one of my favorite Korean dishes, ojinguh bokkeum, spicy stir-fried squid. I made it...
° Smugly-made pizza  When I lived in New York I used to live above a pizza joint called 'Little Frankie's.' Ever the...
° Ten ways I managed to ingest sugar as a child, over parental objections  1. Breakfast Cereal When I was a girl, when we went to the supermarket my mother would come up with...
° The family eggnog  The other night I mysteriously had a craving for the drink of my childhood. Perhaps not so mysteriously, as it's...
° Your comments are greatly appreciated  Your feedback is valued very highly in India. I know this because they ask for it a lot. After each...
° The bang off that durian fruit  My room in Bangkok smells like fish sauce. Most likely I also smell like fish sauce as I took a...
° Bangkok street meat  I know that when you saw the title of this post you thought I had started abusing the ladyboys already,...
° The last one about pancakes  Made the Fannie Farmer pancakes (nee griddlecakes) last night. A day late, but they were freaking fantastic. I hadn't made...
° More on pancakes  Just saw this (I read all the news a day late): No Tuesday Left Behind: A Holiday for Pancakes Does...
° I love pancakes  Today was Pancake Day in Ireland. I'm not sure what exactly it's all about, but apparently it's in some way...
° More on kimchi and Korean cooking  "I think kimchi is on the verge of becoming the next salsa," predicted Jim Poris, senior editor of Food...
° Irish cookery  Just found a good article on Irish food on Epicurious. I guess if I'm going to stay here, I'm going...
° Making kimchi  I'm not sure why I've finally decided to make kimchi, because I've found a brand available here in Ireland that's...
° Soybean paste stew, or one of my many attempts to be Korean  Korean food is one of my favorite things. Strangely enough, there's not a whole lot of it around Ireland. I...
° A visit to the Bible Belt  Right now I am in an airport that has seats that are approximately two and a half feet wide. This...
° Airports and my life  Airports are funny places--the normal rules that apply to one's life seem to be discarded the moment one enters the...
° Oink: suckling pig, jamon, and pig's ears in Spain.  I'm back from my trip, 4.7 pounds heavier and stricken with bronchitis. Seriously, my scale is very precise. The second...
° Buenvenidos a Miami  I'm in Miami right now--it really is like a foreign country here. Although I've only been here for a few...
° The Fat and The Furious  In an effort to boost my ever-waning self-esteem, I watched American Idol tonight, paralyzed with horror as an enormously fat...
° The heat of the meat  A meat stand in Spain. So here I am, updating again. God, I'm good. Anyway, I still haven't posted much...
° Friday Five...food!  Today's Friday Five. 1. What is your favorite restaurant and why? AGGG! I LOVE FOOD. So I have a whole...