Today on Gourmet.com: Okonomiyaki: The Pancake Pizza I’d never cooked with mountain potato before, and it’s pretty awesome: It appears to be an ordinary daikon-like root vegetable, but when it hits the grater, it immediately turns into ribbons of slime. (Fresh-tasting slime that helps give okonomiyaki its toothsome texture, I hasten to add.) edit: Here’s the […]
Oh, to be Michael Pollan. Great writer, and whether I agree with him or not, I feel compelled to respond. It would save me a lot of time if I actually were Michael Pollan, because then I wouldn’t be spending an hour and a pot of tea writing about his column in today’s New York […]
I got a book from the library called Sam The Cooking Guy: Just a Bunch of Recipes. The title made me laugh. Sam is Canadian (edit: I’m not sure if he’s Canadian or what, but he lives in San Diego), and the book is a little perplexing. For example: Ever wonder why chicken is […]
SAVE THE EARTH It’s the only planet with chocolate Seen on Capitol Hill, Seattle. Buy here.
Last time I bought toothpicks, I noticed that the package design seemed to be at least thirty years out of date, and I liked it. My thought must have caused a psychic disturbance at the Penley toothpick company, because they’ve redesigned. Check this out. They seem to have gone from the 60s straight to the 90s. […]