Ken Albala, author of The Great Gelatin Revival: Savory Aspics, Jiggly Shots, and Outrageous Desserts, answers questions on his scholarly influences, discoveries, and reader takeaways from his new book. Q: […]
Emily J. H. Contois and Zenia Kish, editors of Food Instagram: Identity, Influence, and Negotiation, answer questions on their influences, discoveries, and reader takeaways from their new book. Q: Why did […]
Rachel E. Black, author of Cheffes de Cuisine: Women and Work in the Professional French Kitchen, answers questions on her culinary influences, discoveries, and reader takeaways from her book. Q: […]
Whatever industry group planted National Chocolate Day on October 28 did a great job. There’s no better positioning than a few days before Halloween. It’s the holiday dedicated to candy […]
Author, Ann Flesor Beck of Sweet Greeks: First-Generation Immigrant Confectioners in the Heartland, answers questions about her family influences, purpose for writing and myths she hopes to dispel about first-generation […]
County Fairground Soup I love when serendipity, season, and whim dictate the contents of a recipe. A cooking demo for a farm-to-table event and whatever happened to be available at […]
Penang, Malaysia: Duck Soup Noodles This state’s major city, Georgetown, was founded by the British in 1786 as a trading center. Consequently, it attracted influences from not only throughout the […]
The noodle, properly pulled, can take a soup from “good” to “that meal your friends talk about ten years later.” Called “the ultimate noodle” by Ken Albala, and he would […]
This is the strangest noodle I have ever made, and doing it from scratch is more like an alchemical experiment than an exercise in cooking. Among everything in this book, […]
The perfect rice noodle… it is El Dorado and the City of Z, and those questing for it wonder, “Will my journey ever end?” Let Ken Albala be your great and […]
If you live in the hemisphere currently undergoing winter, you know that few foods offer the sanctuary of satisfaction to be found in a bowl of great noodle soup. Ken […]
“There’s a reason that this genre film never worked. It must be ethnic to the core—you must smell the spaghetti. That’s what brought the magic to the novel—it was written […]