How do you prefer your trail mix: more nuts, seeds or fruits?
I prefer more fruit — so much more fruit that my daughter, Sam, says my trail mix looks like fruit salad. I like the sweetness laced with tang. I like saltiness too so I …
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.
What’s in your salad bowl today?
If the main dish is all-meat or all-seafood, we try to prepare a vegetable side dish for a more balanced meal. We’re not a hundred per cent successful. There are …
Is Mexican queso the same as nacho cheese?
In usage, they are sometimes interchanged. But those who don’t use terms loosely know that they really aren’t the same. Not at all. Queso is Spanish for …
Microgreens and a side dish of green beans
El Niño. Long hot and dry season; delayed and short rainy season. We’ve been through it so many times that one would think we should be used to it by now. But it gets …
A tale about rice and rice cookers
In episode two of "A Nation of Broth", a Korean documentary on Netflix, the hosts went in search of soups that go well with rice. Two of the three hosts mixed rice into …
Are all Asian fried rice dishes derived from Chinese fried rice?
The short answer is yes. Fried rice is stir fried and stir frying is a cooking technique that originated in China. But that's only part of the story.
If you have only half a day to enjoy Bangkok
I was there for four days and nights, actually. But the best meals we had you can relish in just one day. Lunch, cocktails and dinner. People travel for different …