In the Kitchen With …
10 Apr, by in Uncategorized, Vietnamese
I'm thrilled to debut a monthly guest column, "In the Kitchen with ...
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I'm thrilled to debut a monthly guest column, "In the Kitchen with ...
In response to my previous post, Marisha asked, "What is the effect of washing rice (besides cleaning it from dust)?" and "Do you know something about it from Japanese tradition?" I have posed this question to several people from different ethnic backgrounds and it turns out...
Jasmine rice is the staple of my childhood As a little girl, one of my very first tasks in the kitchen was cooking rice. Imitating my mum's every move, I'd scoop 4 cups of rice into the steel rice bowl--purists may balk but when I was growing...
Last week, as I tenderly bundled my baby up--all 300-some pages of it--and pushed it gently into a USPS Priority Mail envelope, I was overcome by a mix of emotions. I felt like weeping with both joy and sadness: joy and relief that these pages, my final...
Has pancit ever looked so good? (Photo courtesy Lara Ferroni) Two weeks ago, I was back in Seattle to assist with the photography shoot for my cookbook. Never having participated in a photography shoot before I had absolutely no idea what to expect. I loved it! Often, a...
Alvina and her granddaughter Alyssa making Burmese salad. I have been so blessed to have met and cooked with a wonderful array of women in the process of researching and writing The Asian Grandmothers Cookbook. Learning priceless nuggets of culinary wisdom was one thing, but the experience has also...
It's amazing what you discover just by plugging words into Google. Do you know what manju is? Well, in my books, it's a Japanese confection that has myriad guises. It can be baked or steamed and filled with anything from azuki beans, lima beans to kabocha. According...
Whenever I dine at a Korean restaurant I never fail to order seafood pancake or haemul jeon, chunks of shrimp, squid and the odd bell pepper or green onion nestled in a tasty, savory cushion of a pancake. So when I received a copy of...
I can't believe it's only 3 weeks to Thanksgiving. My husband and I will be celebrating our first Thanksgiving in California but my whole family--parents, sister, and brother with his wife and two boys in tow--is driving down from Seattle to pay us a visit in Pacific Grove. It'll...