Today on Gourmet.com: Rice Burgers: The Ultimate Fast Food This failed to dissuade me, so I asked my friend Rob Ketcherside, a software engineer based in Tokyo, about it. “My tastes aren’t particularly refined,” he admitted. Bingo!
In the December issue of Martha Stewart Living, you published a feature by Steve Almond of Candyfreak fame. Almond, who has also written in great detail about his sexual hangups and about Condoleezza Rice, writes: Among the countless things that can evoke nostalgia, two tower above the rest: Christmas and candy. The mere mention of […]
Since writing a column about knives in October, I’ve continued to obsess. I’m doing my own sharpening now—for real, not like last time. So this is going to be pretty geeky. After a while of enjoying my current knife, I realized that part of why I like it so much is its lack of a […]
I’m working on a column about cider. Did you know that the standard book on cidermaking is by Annie Proulx of Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain fame? It’s true! Here’s what she has to say on the subject of apple brandy: There’s a mistaken belief that North American “home” distillers must, by tradition, set up […]
I needed a vegetable the other night to go with Iris’s pick, crispy pork on a stick, and it turned out better than you might have expected giving the slapdash nature of the enterprise. A small purple cabbage, thickly shredded; 2 tablespoons soy sauce; half a cup of white wine; a large amount of minced […]
