My friend Traca forwarded me an invitation to a press event: As global interest in Japanese cuisine continues to increase, we hope that you will be able to rediscover the greatness of traditional Japanese dried fish, as well as get hints for new creative cooking. We would also be grateful if you would give us […]
No, I haven’t tried out any of your wonderful fish recipes yet. But today, Iris and I were playing Iris Overboard. In case you haven’t heard of it, this is the brutally realistic game where Iris and I sit on pillows, piloting a ship, until we hit an iceberg and Iris falls overboard. I rescue […]
“Gluten-Free Girl: How I Found the Food That Loves Me Back…And How You Can Too” (Shauna James Ahern) I am worried about this book. The publisher seems to be marketing it as an allergy cookbook—or, worse, a diet book, the kind of thing doomed to rocket to the remainder tables. But it’s none of those […]
Today on Serious Eats: Kid-Friendly Cookbooks Lauren Bank Deen’s Kitchen Playdates is obviously written from years of experience of kids tearing through her house, prodding balls of dough, sprinkling toppings, and licking beaters. It’s full of great tips, like: “When my kids make calzones, I find that they eat the bread and ignore the filling…with […]
I made myself a nice salad for lunch today. (When you’re done reading this post, you can look back at that sentence and laugh.) I had some leftover carnitas and green cabbage, but no tortillas, because the tortillas I bought at the supermarket had gone bad. Why I keep buying corn tortillas at the supermarket […]
