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What's the Beef?
Come Saturday afternoon, there's a line out the door at Fiore's House of Quality in Hoboken, New Jersey. The Jerseyites are waiting patiently for the Italian roast beef hero....
01.24.08
- Keywords
- culinary culture,
- italian,
- sandwiches,
- meat,
- robert sietsema
food + cooking
Eat Like a Roman, Part 2
Maybe you’ve never heard of garum before. It’s not as common as ketchup or soy sauce, but it once had a similar function.
01.15.08
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- ingredients,
- italian,
- eat like a roman,
- robert sietsema,
- rome
chefs + restaurants
The Lanky One
It's nice to know you can still stumble on Cal-Mex dishes that haven't yet
reached the popular consciousness.
01.04.08
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- robert sietsema,
- restaurants,
- mexican,
- california
chefs + restaurants
Forgotten Cuisines of America, Part 3
Silicon Valley is a hotbed of up-to-the-minute Chinese restaurants, usually
found in grandiose shopping malls around Cupertino and Sunnyvale.
12.21.07
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- restaurants,
- robert sietsema,
- forgotten cuisines,
- chinese,
- california
food + cooking
Eat Like a Roman
I stumbled upon a weird ceramic vessel filled with holes. It turned out to be glirarium, a jar for breeding dormice for culinary purposes.
11.30.07
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- robert sietsema,
- culinary culture,
- meat,
- eat like a roman,
- travel
food + cooking
Minutes of the Institute for Oleic Research, Part 2: Guanciale
My favorite of these new offerings of cured pork is guanciale—flesh from the jaw and check of the hog, with a flavor like porky pumpkin pie.
11.19.07
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- ingredients,
- meat,
- pork,
- robert sietsema,
- institute for oleic research
food + cooking
Forgotten Cuisines of America, Part 2
The Hmong were a mountain people living in northern Laos when the Vietnam War spilled across the border. When the war ended, many resettled in the U.S.
11.02.07
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- asian,
- culinary culture,
- restaurants,
- robert sietsema,
- forgotten cuisines
food + cooking
Chinatown Market Watch
Also known as pitaya, dragon fruit is the pear of an epiphytic cactus species Hylocereus undatus.
10.29.07
- Keywords
- ingredients,
- produce,
- fruit,
- seasonal,
- asian
food + cooking
Minutes of the Institute for Oleic Research: Palm Oil
The question has long dogged me: What to do with palm oil, apart from using it in Brazilian and West African cooking?
10.19.07
food + cooking
Pure Honey, from the South Bronx
I went to a honey tasting the other evening, and though some of the samples were from as far away as New England, the theme of the tasting was local honeys.
10.14.07
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- ingredients,
- honey,
- robert sietsema