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Umami Days

Umami Days

Meaty with a dash of veggies

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    • Edible Garden
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Food Tales

To understand food and its cultural and social significance, it is often necessary to go beyond recipes and cooking tips. This section includes a comprehensive guide on ramen broth, a history of mac and cheese, a dive into the (mostly Western) misconception that sate / satay is peanut sauce and how chocolate evolved to become the (second?) most popular Valentine's Day gift.

Vegetable and seafood recipes

Lent. Abstention. Easter. Feast.

Sichuan-style bang-bang chicken

The curious name of bang bang chicken

Filipino-style sweet spaghetti with hotdogs

Why do Japanese and Filipino spaghetti have hotdogs and ketchup?

Pork dumpling soup

Chinese dishes from my childhood

Thai green mango salad, Chiang Mai, 2020

Thai dishes we call salad

Turkey (bird)

Thanksgiving in the Philippines

scrambled eggs with tomato, basil and cheese inspired by pizza Margherita

Getting over the myth that breakfast is the most important meal

Grapes and pecan salad

Seedless grapes and toasted pecan salad

Trail mix

How do you prefer your trail mix: more nuts, seeds or fruits?

Cucumber, corn and tomato salad

What’s in your salad bowl today?

Fully loaded nachos

Is Mexican queso the same as nacho cheese?

Steamed green beans

Microgreens and a side dish of green beans

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