Archive for December, 2006

Flavor of love

Sunday, December 31st, 2006

Remember when I attended the Worlds of Flavor conference? I don’t, but that’s the free sherry talking. I’m not sure whether I mentioned this, but the trip was covered by the Association of Food Journalists. I’m a member, and if you write about food at least half-time and get paid for it (or are at […]

A conversation at bathtime

Friday, December 29th, 2006

Iris put some bath suds into a cup and handed it to me.

Iris: Here’s your mashed potatoes.

Me: Wow, these are the best mashed potatoes ever. What makes them so rich and creamy?

Iris: Um. There’s a toy under it?

For the Koreaphile who has everything

Thursday, December 28th, 2006

While I was waiting for my bibimbap at H Mart, I noticed they sell refrigerators. Not ordinary refrigerators: LG brand kimchi refrigerators. I thought this might have something to do with making kimchi, but the technology turns out to be a lot more practical, according to this article:

If you’ve got kimchi in your […]

HMV

Tuesday, December 26th, 2006

I wanted ramen at Kintaro, Vancouver’s famous ramen shop, but I was dissuaded by the line. Apparently there’s always a line. I’m glad there’s a ramen place so good that it always has a line, but shouldn’t someone should open a competing ramen place across the street? I’m not broken up about missing Kintaro now […]

The traditional Christmas Eve gnocchi

Sunday, December 24th, 2006

Okay, we don’t have a Christmas Eve gnocchi tradition. Until now.

We’re having Christmas on the 19th floor of one of Vancouver’s finest apartment towers. Although when Iris saw it, she said, “That can’t be our skyscraper; it’s not the tallest one.”

Yesterday we took the Aquabus to Granville Island and got many provisions. I stopped at […]