Vacation posts on Food in Mouth
One of the benefits of marrying someone who is very different from me is that there are new food items to grow to love. Kouign Amann is a buttery pastry with crispy bits. It’s sweet and literally means butter cake. Far Breton is a cake with a consistency like a stiff flan, and it has dried prunes scattered within the cake. I never had any idea these two things existed until wifey came into the picture…. [Continue reading]
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September 30, 2015 at 1:54 am
One of those things that Americans rarely think about is what would it look like when some other entity supplants our dominance. If there’s one thing that born-here Americans have that naturalized Americans don’t have, and other humans of the world don’t have, I think that is it. In the States, GM used to dominate car sales and now world wide they’re behind Toyota and Volkswagon. Fast food is something that Murica dominates as well in terms of cultural power, as I’ve seen some gigantic KFC stores in France that look bigger than any store in the U.S. The thing is, there aren’t that many of them. McDonalds obviously dominates, but number two is a brand called Quick…. [Continue reading]
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September 26, 2015 at 3:33 pm
I made some jiaozi dumplings for my in-laws this summer in Brittany. The wrapper was hand made, and the filling came from pork sausage. Surprisingly, in their small French town we were able to get our hands on Chinese cabbage. So it turned out decently well, considering it was my fourth time making jiaozi wrappers from scratch. I shared a picture of it on facebook and someone asked why I used sausage meat squeezed from casings. The reason was that as Americans, we’re used to certain cuts being available at the meat counter in the supermarket, and if you’re lucky to live near a Chinatown, you also see what an Asian store has. In France it’s not the same. You want spare ribs? Good luck. Babyback ribs? Shrink wrapped and marinated in sauce already. Ground pork? Not so widely available. Sausage? Everywhere…. [Continue reading]
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September 15, 2015 at 10:56 am
For the food obsessed, one of the selling points of New York City is that you could find a wide variety of food items, and if the concentration of that ethnic group is high enough, then you could find something awesome. Yes, yes, yes, the food cognizenti stopped liking to say there’s such a thing as ‘ethnic’ food because all food is ethnic. Whatever. It’s easy to find a fucking Applebees in Ohio, so you tell me what the hell ‘American (new)’ is supposed to be. But Chicago has a lot of what you can find in New York. Maybe there aren’t ten great ramen places, but there’s at least one. There might not be ten casual places serving top notch lunch fare, but Avec just started seving lunch! It’s a popular place in Chicago that had only done dinner service, and didn’t take reservations…. [Continue reading]
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August 7, 2015 at 12:56 pm
Wifey and I went to Chicago earlier this summer to scope out the city before perhaps moving there next summer. It’s probably like my fifth time to Chicago and all this time, I had never tried an Italian beef sandwich. There are multiple options in Chicago (view with Javascript turned off to skip their pay wall), and Portillo’s is a good enough approximation of this iconic Chicago favorite. While I was at it, I also stuffed my face with a Chicago-style hot dog, because might as well!… [Continue reading]
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August 3, 2015 at 7:56 pm
One thing that’s nice about New York is that it’s possible to get restaurant-level desserts without going to a restaurant. Dominique Ansel… [more]
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October 22, 2015 at 1:12 am 
We went to check out the new-ish Whitney Museum by the Meatpacking District the other week. The weather was gorgeous and you could see the Freedom Tower… [more]
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October 18, 2015 at 5:00 pm 
The long goodbye is always the hardest. And while school happens and time passes, we still have to find ways to pass the time, and to fill our bellies…. [more]
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October 9, 2015 at 1:03 am 
At some point in my life, instead of going to the school that was a five minute bike ride away from my house, I got bussed into an inner city school… [more]
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October 1, 2015 at 1:22 am 
One of the benefits of marrying someone who is very different from me is that there are new food items to grow to love. Kouign Amann is a buttery pastry… [more]
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September 30, 2015 at 1:54 am