GOOD FOR THE HEART

Dim sum, in Honolulu. I skipped the decadent potstickers in bamboo baskets for the medicinal ginger rice soup made-to-order, with a plate of translucent steamed Chinese broccoli donning tiny yellow blossoms for a cardio-sound breakfast. At first the intrepid servers didn’t understand the logic of my...

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A CLEAN PLATE

 The virtue of appetite depends largely on superlative cooking brokered by the epigenetic cultural norms of a particular cuisine. The blog is an ode to the French-style of waste-no-taste served you - because their culinary tradition is a pantheon to the country and a matter of life or death. (And...

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“SOUL FOOD”

When I’m running on empty, Sal Paradise fills me up— a true friend not just on paper. Cookies and milk; cherry pies for two fruits bursting at the seams; one night when I still called him roomie he brought home after a late shift at Mana Foods a veggie wrap filled with collards and tofu in tahini...

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RYE’S BOWL

     Yesterday when my sister called she asked what I was cooking. I said it was complicated to explain, well, just please read the blog. I was exhausted from my workout and wanted to put the food in my body and nourish it fast. I couldn't even say it was a "rice" bowl: using rye berries...

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