You can’t get much more American than the Fifth of May, better known as Cinco de Mayo. Cinco de Mayo’s origins are not surprisingly Mexican and come from the State of Puebla, where they celebrate on May 5: El Día de la Batalla de Puebla, commemorating the Mexican army’s victory over the French in 1862 at [...]
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I don’t have it too often (fortunately or unfortunately), but fried chicken is one of those foods that while seemingly incredibly simple and common, can and often is, so much more. Thomas Keller makes it and so do plenty of gas stations, which makes it kind of democratizing meal of sorts – but rather than [...]
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Okay, so been a Vietnamese kick recently as the post on Pho may have hinted at, today I’ll turn our attention to bánh mì: Bánh mì in Vietnamese refers to bread – specifically the baguette that we can thank French colonialism for introducing to Vietnam, but the name bánh mì at least here in the [...]
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Faux pho A couple weeks back when my fiancé was feeling under the weather and was making up some ramen (including the little packet – something I never quite developed the taste for) I decided I’d go a bit more for the flavor of Pho, but without having many ingredients or the time to make [...]
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So it’s a new year and a lot of folks are trying to live up to their resolutions. I’ve never been that into them, maybe its the cliche nature of the whole thing, but this year I’ve come up with a few basic ideas of things I’d like to try and do and hopefully cliche [...]
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Northstar is officially a Columbus institituion, having grown from a location in the Short North to having locations in Beechwald and Easton as well as opening Third & Hollywood in Grandview. Northstar does a great job of mixing genres, combining simple with upscale, quality with casual, and mixing healthy with not so much. One of [...]
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Just like the hipsters in Brooklyn we’ve been doing some home canning this summer, and with the last harvest of the year we grabbed a whole bunch of green tomatoes before the first frost hit. Hating to see such a beautiful lot go to waste we decided to turn them into some relish and can [...]
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Saw this recipe the other day on WOSU our local PBS station on an episode of Cooks Country. The recipe is for Apple Cider Chicken, which uses bone in chicken pieces, seared in a pan, where a braising sauce is then made, with the chicken then going back into the pan to finish in the oven [...]
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The other day we went out into the garden which is still loaded with vegetables (although a lot of them are green tomatoes that may never ripen with the cool wet weather now) and harvested everything we could and pitched all the bad tomatoes into the compost bin. (There were a lot of perfect looking [...]
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Saw in the NY Times this morning that California has coming into effect soon a ban on foie gras. For those that don’t remember Chicago for a time passed a similarly dumb law. Why do I say dumb? Well for one foie gras is misunderstood – go watch how it’s made, the animals treated and [...]
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