The question of culinary authenticity has dogged me for years. In fact, it has dogged me since the day I decided to properly learn how to cook. I began my pre-cooking days by blindly applying heat to ingredients to make such classics as Shake’n Bake pork chops and macaroni in Campbells chicken noodle or minestrone [...]
Some people are in the food business because they love food. Other people are in the food business only because they feel they have to be. Unfortunately the latter type is almost always going to outnumber the former type. That doesn’t make it any less disappointing to hear that a chef-owner whom I know personally [...]
Wow! Sushi is literally on my way back home from work, and I’ve been there a few times now. Each time I drop by, I sit at the sushi bar and order just a few a la carte items. I’m not there to fill up, I’m there to enjoy a small treat and to learn a [...]
I have a big soft spot in my heart for small businesses, especially independent restaurants, who put their shingle up and offer a quality product or service. Particularly when it‘s something that I know something about, I can be picky, yet I am very enthusiastic when quality is placed first and the place does things [...]
“Night Markets” are a direct translation from Chinese and pretty much capture what they are: big markets with plenty of small vendors’ stalls open until late at night. In warm Asian cities like Hong Kong, these are open practically year-round and late into the night. Outside of Asia, like here in Toronto, they are considered [...]
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