Tag Archives: food culture Last week was a double header at COOK Masters program, and though I am still reeling from the whirlwind bread baking class that James Barrett from Metropolitan Bakery miraculously crammed into two hours, The Sauce class left me giddy and literally sauced (and not in a Chris Christie kind of way). The class was led […]  People cook for all sorts of reasons, for some it is a drudgery that must be endured, for me it is always from the heart. I cook, not just because it is a way to express my love for others— though that is certainly one reason, but also because I love the alchemy of cooking. […]  I can’t recall the first time I had an egg cream, but I was too young to question the lack of both egg and cream in this delicious treat. For years, Dave’s on the corner of Canal and Broadway was the place for an authentic NYC egg cream, and I would often stop there on […]  I can’t believe this is my first post about dim sum! I have loved dim sum for almost the entire span of my life. When I was in college at NYU my friends and I frequented New York’s nearby Chinatown; my friend Alice and I had lunch at Sam Wo’s every Friday. Once I moved […]  Butchery is something most of us don’t really think about. Many of my friends say they don’t enjoy any meat with bones, and I generally attribute this to some degree of squeamishness, and a preference to not think about the animal that is the source of their dinner. I may be wrong about this, perhaps […] |
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