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Mayonnaise, Japanese Farm Food Style {Giveaway}

I used to think that mayonnaise was mayonnaise, something I occasionally put on a sandwich (but usually not—I was a mustard devotee), and something that my mom used to make tuna fish or egg salad sandwiches. Then I moved to Japan and tasted Japanese mayonnaise and realized that all mayos are not created equal, and [...]

I love a good potato salad, but I’m also quite picky about how I like it prepared. I have three favorites—my mother-in-law’s potato salad, Japanese-style potato salad, and kartoffelsalat (German potato salad). I love the sharp vinegary marinade of German potato salad, and the creamy tart flavor always reminds me of visits to Siegfried’s deli [...]

I love Julia Child for many reasons—her spunk and dogged determination, her love for life and cooking, her love for France, and her cookbooks. But another reason I love Julia Child is because she was a cat lover, a fact which award-winning children’s book author Susanna Reich captures in her book, Minette’s Feast: The Delicious [...]

Giant Double Chocolate-Orange Marshmallows . . . the words alone are enough to make me swoon, but the actual finished marshmallows put me into a happy chocolate trance. These marshmallows came from the genius baking mind of Abby Dodge, one of my favorite cookbook authors, and one of my favorite people in general. Abby is [...]

Today, as the next post in my Food Is Medicine series, I’m tackling the topic of whole grains, with the aid of an amazing recipe for sandwich wraps that features a wheat berry spread that will knock your socks off!

“Now, dearie, I will require a hot plate for my appearance on Professor Duhamel’s program.” Russ Morash, who had answered the telephone in a makeshift office he shared with the volunteers at WGBH-TV, was momentarily startled, not so much by the odd request as by the odder voice. It had a quality he’d never heard [...]

March 11, 2012 marked the one year anniversary of the triple disaster in Japan. Unimaginable devastation and hardship has occurred in the affected regions during the past year. Despite the horrors that the past year has wrought, hope remains. As Elizabeth Andoh writes in her newest book, KIBŌ (“Brimming with Hope”): Recipes & Stories from [...]

An egg cream is a drink that consists of neither egg, nor cream, but milk, chocolate syrup, and soda water. The drink is most often associated with Brooklyn, NY, because of Louis Aster, a candy shop owner in Brooklyn who is alleged to have invented this creamy sweet bubbly drink in the late 1800s. National [...]

Quick Mao Pao Tofu Makes 4 servings (serving size: 1 1/4 cups tofu mixture and 1/2 cup rice) Recipe from The Complete Quick Cook (with permission from publisher) 1 (3 1/2-ounce) bag boil-in-bag rice (or 2 cups hot steamed rice) 2 tablespoons lower-sodium soy sauce, divided 2 tablespoons dry sherry or Shaoxing wine, divided (or [...]

Add this recipe to ZipList! Poached Alaskan King Crab Salad Recipe from Chef Curtis Duffy in Made in America: Our Best Chefs Reinvent Comfort Food, by Lucy Lean Makes 4 servings For the Citrus Stock: 2 lemons, halved 2 limes, halved 2 oranges, halved 2 grapefruit, halved 2 kaffir lime leaves 1/2 bottle white wine [...]

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