Got Umami? Soybean Ingredients of the East

Believe it or not, I did not grow up eating Asian foods. I was in high school before I ate at a Chinese restaurant. Thirteen years ago or so is when I had my first taste of Thai food. Korean–that was around a decade ago. Japanese and Indian–I started eating those regularly about a decade […]

Do You Know Umami?

When we were growing up, there learned that there were four basic tastes: salt, sweet, sour and bitter. We were told that our taste buds had special taste receptors in particular zones on our tongues that detected these four tastes and that all other components of flavor came from our olfactory sense–the sense of smell. […]

Culinary Cultural Appropriation

This post could have a subtitle: “Getting Over Myself.” Indeed, it is likely that I could have simply called it “Getting Over Myself” in the first place. In the past, in fact, just as recently as a few months ago, I felt odd about posting about my explorations on Chinese food, including recipes that I […]

Culinary New Year’s Resolutions

It is that time of year, when we look over the past year and meditate upon what we did right, what we are proud of, what we rejoice in. And, of course, some of us also look at where we went wrong, what we utterly bungled and what we need to improve. In doing so, […]

Whole Foods Columbus Update….

We went back to Whole Foods in Columbus today, as we drove in to take Heather knife shopping at Sur la Table, where she can test drive the knives and I get a great discount. And since we were in town, why not take Heather and Dan to Whole Foods. The first thing I noticed […]

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