Cultural appropriation, once again, finds itself in the discussion thanks to Jamie Oliver’s (ready-made, apparently) “Jerk Rice”. R.E.S.P.E.C.T. In England,…
Learning something from China about tomatoes seems a strange proposition, but xihongshi jidan tang, the Chinese tomato-egg(drop) soup offers an…
Preserving fruits, certainly in Austria, tends to mean making marmalade. If you don’t want to eat sweet breads, hardly ever…
Hong Shao Rou, Red-Braised Pork. It is often presented as a Shanghai dish. For someone from Hunan, however, it is…
June/July, high time for an update. A pretty long one, now that everything’s growing. Well, okay, not everything. I had…
A brand called Malebranche? In Kyoto, Japan? What is that even supposed to mean?
You hear of Tsukiji, you hear of the fish market and the tuna auction there. Famous as these are, it…
In what has become the last finished episode of the CNN series Parts Unknown with Anthony Bourdain, he joined up…
Spring, nature’s awakening, rising temperatures – and in Japan, the spring mist in the mountains for which Haru Kasumi matcha…