My latest Culinate column is about homemade pizza.
[A piece of the pie](http://www.culinate.com/read/bacon/A+piece+of+the+pie)
Thanks to reader Stephanie for suggesting the Julia Child dough recipe, which was a real winner. It’s so good to have bacon-jalapeño back!
A new vegetarian Thai place opened near me, and I’m looking forward to trying it–especially after getting their menu in the mail.
The menu sections have titles like:
* Curry Episode
* Stir Fried Episode
* Salad Episode
But the best is the side dishes: ACCOMPANY BUDDIES ESPISODE. Sic.
The place is In the Bowl Vegetarian Noodle Bistro, open every day at 1554 E Olive Way. Let me know if you stop in and have an episode.
You can find me today in the Seattle Times food section:
[Do chefs’ sprouts eat their veggies?](http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/foodwine/2003616553_chefkids14.html)
Spoiler: No.
This was a fun one to write, because I got to skewer conventional wisdom. I expected some of the chefs to tell me their kids were picky eaters, but I didn’t expect (a) that they would be willing to talk about it at such length, or (b) that one of the chefs would tell me that his son eats still-frozen frozen pizza.
These are some of the best chefs in Seattle, and they do cook for their kids. So if you have a picky eater at home, you’re officially absolved now. Unless the picky eater is your spouse or something.
Iris and I went to Uwajimaya this morning and I remembered to get the green tea that JasonTrue recommended in the comments to my previous post about genmaicha. Iris also tried to get me to buy five little frozen whole fish, but I talked her into some frozen eel instead.
As for the tea, it’s MyGreenTea brand genmai-matcha, silk teabags of genmaicha dusted with matcha. So when you brew it up, you get the toasted rice flavor of genmaicha with the mouthfeel and brilliant green color of matcha. I love this tea. I can’t wait until tomorrow morning. Telling you about it, I feel like the drug dealer in the movie _Mask_ who said something like, “Try this. It’s dusted with angel weed.” Or something.
The MGT brand is certainly more expensive than the Yamamotoyama genmaicha I’d been drinking–at 30 cents per teabag, about three times as much. Was it worth it? I was dithering over this until I realized that a cup of tea at my local teashop costs *ten times* as much as the MGT. Not that I’m dissing my local teashop. If I drank all my tea at home, I’d save a bundle on tea and never get the slightest bit of work done.
You can order MyGreenTea online at YuzuMura.com. (I don’t get a commission or free tea. Too bad for me!)
Oops, two Starbucks posts in a row. This one is just a link to my new Culinate column:
Unexplained Bacon: Is it good to be the king?
I can’t believe they let me put a graph in this column.
edit: By which I meant, “I can’t believe they were so cool that they let me put in a graph rather than telling me that graphs scare readers off.”