27 Jan 2017 11 Comments
in Cooking Tips, Markets & Stores Tags: agemochi, cheese, condiments, dolls, humor, Japanese food, Kewpie, mayonnaise, senbei
Sometimes I think the Italians make the best things. And then I change my mind, and decide it’s actually the Mexicans who make the best things. Other times, I’m pretty darned sure it’s the Japanese.
This is one of those times.
Of course, it all depends on what you are talking about. If you’re discussing cheese, for example, it’s hard to make a case that anyone does it better than the French. More
16 Dec 2016 12 Comments
in American Series, Food, Humor, World's Best Sandwiches Tags: Belle Grove Plantation, Donald Trump, food, humor, Oaxacan mole, Obama, sandwiches, tacos, Vallarta Market
In the first weeks of January, I declared 2016 would be the “Year of the Taco” at Skinny Girls & Mayonnaise. And the year did not disappoint.
The last taco
I ate delicious tacos in East L.A., Mexico and Hawaii. I added six new taco recipes — including air-dried pork, Veracruz-style fish and Oaxacan turkey mole — to a blog that already boasted nearly a dozen. It was a good year. More
09 Dec 2016 5 Comments
in Food, Recipes Tags: boxty, globalization, Greek lasagna, humor, Irish cuisine, lindertorte, Obama, Russian cooking
Globalization is a bit of a loaded word these days. Obama likes it, but Trump sorta scrunches up his nose and waves his arms about it.
We celebrated the globalization of our own little coastal California canyon recently with “Heritage Day” in my 5th grader, Willa’s class.
The Heritage Feast
“Dad, what’s our heritage?” Willa asked about a week before her heritage presentation was due. Her mother and I cobbled together an approximate lineage. Between the two of us, she was probably close to 50% Irish, I contributed my 25% Swedish, plus some English and Welsh; my wife added German and Norwegian, plus a bit more English and Welsh. More
16 Sep 2016 5 Comments
in Humor, Recipes Tags: Alaskan cod, humor, Mexican food, recipes, seafood, Seattle, tacos, Veracruz
I was trying to make tacos, a simple enough goal.
And yet, I was being foiled.
Veracruz-style fish tacos
Whilst in Seattle, my pal Bob reminded me that it was the “Year of the Taco” at Skinny Girls & Mayo. I hadn’t exactly forgotten, per se — but I clearly hadn’t been focusing any of my narrative attention lately to the recording of taco adventures in the kitchen. More
19 Jul 2016 1 Comment
in Humor, On the Road, Video Tags: calvados, camembert, France, French cuisine, Honfleur, humor, Husqvarna, Normandy, robots
After a long and richly wine-ambered dinner with some friendly Finns at the table next to us and our friends the Schneiders who showed up mid-meal at the Bastille-area restaurant Chez Paul where we had last eaten 15 years before on our honeymoon, we slept hard and set out in the morning on the train for Normandy.
Whelks & periwinkles at Chez Paul
We would be visiting with my wife’s friend Anne, whom we had also last seen 15 years before in Paris. Like us, she now had three children and was living the French country dream near the harbor of Honfleur.
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