Joe DiStefano on gourmet.com
food + cooking
Malaysian Snack Attack
Face to face with a mountain of Malaysian junk food, I decided to undertake what I humbly think of as a comprehensive survey of the genre.
04.19.08
- Keywords
- culinary culture,
- malaysian,
- asian,
- joe distefano
food + cooking
Where There’s Smoke … There’s Uni!?
What possessed a seafood purveyor to smoke uni and how does he do it—why doesn’t the gelatinous roe disintegrate during the process?
03.19.08
- Keywords
- japanese,
- seafood,
- ingredients,
- joe distefano
food + cooking
Mad for Mochi
I can’t read Japanese at all, so I usually rely on pictographs for cooking directions. But what if there are no pictographs?
01.18.08
- Keywords
- culinary culture,
- pastry,
- dessert,
- japan,
- joe distefano