Making meatballs is fun, especially if you have some good music playing in the background while you’re rolling away. Meatballs are also easy to customize — just add a different blend of spices — and they can be anything from finger-food appetizers to the main dish. And if you get tired of rolling the meat [...]
Rice is served on every continent and in nearly every country; from Asia to Latin America, it’s the staple ingredient in hundreds of cuisines. Perhaps unsurprisingly — rice is the most-consumed grain in the world — there’s a specific kind of rice to go along with all those different culinary traditions. (Christian Teubner’s The Rice [...]
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As already mentioned in my previous post, I love pineapples. (When I was attending a Spanish-language school in Costa Rica, our chosen names were a combination of our favorite fruit + our favorite color. That made me Piña Violeta, or “purple pineapple.”) Most of the time, I cut up a fresh pineapple and eat it; [...]
It seems like summer is just around the corner…and with it, long sunny days and warm starry nights. It’s almost time to dust off our BBQs and reconnect with the most American of all cooking traditions. While you’re donning your apron and taking up the tongs, however, why not try incorporating other cuisines into your [...]
While Americans tend to think of bamboo in terms of couches and chairs, Asian cultures view it as food: tender, young bamboo shoots make tasty additions to curries and stir-frys. While they aren’t captivating on their own–they have a starchy, rather bland flavor (like potatoes)–they pair nicely with everything from mushrooms to meat. And since [...]
