Search
asia
travel + culture
A Banquet of Bugs
You can taste exquisitely crisp Peking duck in Beijings’s restaurants, but you’d be much better off savoring a caterpillar or katydid at the Night Food Market.
06.06.08
- Keywords
- stephen henderson,
- china,
- asia,
- culinary culture
magazine
Cooking Schools: Tamarind
You need know nothing of the the bamboo steamer to enroll. Come lunchtime, though, you’ll be forming sticky-rice balls between your fingers.
May 2008
- Keywords
- karen coates,
- cooking school,
- travel,
- asia,
- asian
magazine
Cooking Schools: Nimmy Paul
Nimmy Paul, one of Kerala’s foremost culinary authorities, presented me with the clean, pure flavors of India on a plate.
May 2008
- Keywords
- jane daniels lear,
- cooking school,
- travel,
- india,
- nimmy paul
magazine
Cooking Schools: The Thai House
Take a class at The Thai House and you will learn village secrets in the lazy haze of a Thai afternoon.
May 2008
- Keywords
- karen coates,
- cooking school,
- travel,
- thailand,
- asia
magazine
Cooking Schools: The Route of Flavors
At this crossroads of East and West, the rich, fertile soil produces extraordinary fruits and vegetables and lush meadows for grazing.
May 2008
- Keywords
- shelley wiseman,
- cooking school,
- travel,
- caucasas travel ltd.,
- asia
magazine
Cooking Schools: LaZat Malaysian Home Cooking Classes; Ismail Ahmad
About 200 miles from the equator, Kuala Lumpur boasts a number of cake-baking and cake-decorating schools and classes.
May 2008
- Keywords
- abe opincar,
- cooking school,
- travel,
- asia,
- dessert
magazine
Cooking Schools: Tellicherry Pepper
I’d traveled halfway around the world to learn about the rich, complex cuisine of the Mappilas (Muslims) in this isolated part of southwestern India.
May 2008
- Keywords
- jane daniels lear,
- cooking school,
- travel,
- india,
- asia
travel + culture
Love Child
A few weeks ago I traveled to the small island country of Macau, a place scarred deeply by both the Chinese and Portuguese Empires.
02.13.08
- Keywords
- travel,
- china,
- asia,
- ian knauer,
- restaurants
travel + culture
Postcard from Yunnan, Part 5
The other food product Yunnan is famous for is mushrooms. One hot pot restaurant had 37 varieties of mushrooms …in the off season.
02.11.08
- Keywords
- francis lam,
- travel,
- china,
- asia,
- culinary culture
travel + culture
Postcard from Yunnan, Part 4
Lijiang, at the foot of Yulong Mountain, boasts two ancient cities: one destroyed by earthquake in 1996 and restored; the other intact for over 800 years.
02.04.08
- Keywords
- travel,
- china,
- asia,
- francis lam,
- culinary culture