Which is less cruel: eating animals or plants?
Whoever said that there is no killing involved in a plant-based diet?
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 is genmaicha?
Japanese green tea with roasted brown rice. Right. Brown rice. Flowers like jasmine and chrysanthemum aren’t the only things that taste good with green tea.
Flirting with French cuisine
Among the five mother sauces in French cuisine, Bechamel sauce is most often used in our home cooking. But Hollandaise sauce is my favorite.
Is youtiao the ancestor of churros?
When the Portuguese sailed East, they paid attention to the delectable food they encountered in China and brought back with them to Europe new culinary techniques that …
Khao lam: Thai sticky rice cooked in bamboo
Bamboo tubes are stuffed with uncooked sticky rice, sugar, coconut milk and salt, sealed, boiled then grilled in charcoal. Khao lam is delicious beyond words.
In Vietnam, banh tet is a lunar new year tradition
Mung beans and pork wrapped in glutinous rice, rolled into a log with layers of banana leaves, then boiled for long hours, banh tet is a traditional Lunar New Year food …
Guide to ramen broth: shio, shoyu, miso and tonkotsu
Shio broth has salt, shoyu broth has soy sauce and miso paste is added to make miso broth. Tonkotsu (not tonkatsu) is made with pork hock and trotters. But did you also …