The title of this post is slightly misleading. I’m recommending six food movies, some fictional, some documentaries, and I haven’t seem any of them. But I want to see all of them (and many were recommended on a Chowhound forum so I’m not telling you to watch these completely blindly). Extras bonus: Netflix subscribers can watch the first [...]
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6 Food Movies You Should Watch
Posted in Fun Food Bites, Pop Culture, Travel, tagged big night, food inc., gwyneth paltrow, king corn, mario batali, mark bittman, mondovino, spain...on the road again, stanley tucci, tampopo, tony shalhoub on January 21, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Hot and Sour Soup
Posted in Baltimore, Books, Ingredients, Recipes, Travel, tagged black Chinese vinegar, Chinese food, hot and sour soup, ming tsai, the asian kitchen cookbook on January 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
When it’s 20 degrees outside and your heater is set to a cold 60 degrees inside, how can you quickly warm up? (And no, you can’t turn up the heat.) Would you: a) Take a hot shower. b) Turn your hair dryer on at the hottest setting and blast your face. c) Make some hot and [...]
Kartoflane Kluski (Polish Potato Dumplings)
Posted in Recipes, Travel, tagged polish potato dumplings, salt pork on December 28, 2009 | 5 Comments »
These potato dumplings taste like pork. Not because they are fried in bacon grease, but because they are literally coated in salt pork fat. The pork is fried and the fat is melted, then removed from the heat before the dumplings are tossed in and everything is mixed together. The pork eaters in my family [...]
Cheese Pierogi
Posted in Baltimore, Ingredients, Recipes, Travel, tagged farmers cheese, pierogi, Polish foods on November 17, 2009 | 10 Comments »
This past weekend, I made pierogi with Buszi (my grandmother, pronounced Boo-she), Aunt Jo (my great-aunt; they are sisters), my mom, my Aunt Barb, and my cousin Jackie. It was a family effort learning how to make these doughy pockets of our Polish ancestry. I should say here that I do not celebrate Poland’s culture [...]
