Around 5:30, when I entered Chinatown, the streets were already dark but shops beckoned me in with their lights shining on outdoor displays of silvery, scaly fish and boxes of dried, gnarled mushrooms. I was going to make dumplings, and I thought a Chinatown grocery expedition would be an appropriately fun adventure. I had discovered [...]
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Posted in just hungry, tagged elana, funny story on January 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This story has nothing to do with food, but I thought it was hilarious. My friend Elana just sent it to me. It’s a record of a phone conversation she had.
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I just got off a phone call that went like this:
Me: OPRS, this is Elana Snow
Little old lady: ummm yess…i’m calling to talk to [...]
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Posted in *restaurants: new york, manhattan, new york, new york*: east village, new york: sri lankan, tagged coconut, new york, sigiri, sri lankan food, sri lankan restaurant on January 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Thanks to this discussion on Sepia Mutiny, I learned of Sigiri, a Sri Lankan restaurant in New York. I’ve eaten Sri Lankan food at one cousin’s home in Sri Lanka, as well as at another cousin’s house in Massachusetts.
Although meat dominates the menu at Sigiri and is a large part of Sri Lankan cuisine, my [...]
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My dad’s uncle, Jaisinh mama, has a house in Mahabaleshwar where he lives for most of the year. Mahabaleshwar is a hill station six hours southeast of Bombay, and he prefers its green trees and moderate temperatures to Bombay’s pollution and humidity. At about 4,500 feet above sea level, it gets 300 inches of rainfall [...]
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[ first avenue, between 5th and 6th streets]
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On Maggie’s birthday we headed to her house to cook dinner. For starters, she had already prepared Alsatian Cheese Tarts. So much deliciousness was packed between the layers of creamy cheese, crispy caramelized onion, and flaky puff pastry that we ended up feasting on these and forgoing the rest of dinner.
[the birthday girl and rice]
Like [...]
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Yesterday my friend Allison emailed me about a foodie event at Symphony Space called Mastering the Art of Writing About Cooking, with Judith Jones and Alex Prud’homme. Judith Jones, the editor at Knopf who edited Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking, will be talking with Julia’s grandnephew, Alex. Judith Jones recently published her [...]
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[Mini hands on Shyam]
On a hot afternoon in Bombay, my brother and I joined my cousin Amrita and her baby Parthiv for a cold coffee at Barista. Barista is one of the biggest coffee shop chains in India. Along with Cafe Coffee Day (another chain), it is credited for creating India’s coffee shop culture.
As far [...]
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