Oysterville Sea Farms: naked and raw in Wallapa Bay.
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Willapa Bay, Washington produces great Pacific oysters, and Oysterville Sea Farms is a perfect place to slurp them down naked and raw — the oysters, not you.
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Project Sichuan #9 - Ants Climbing A Tree: it’s a bug’s life….
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Ants Climbing A Tree is a classic Sichuan noodle dish with pork and scallions, but not a single ant or tree. But with its rich umami flavor it’s so good that you wouldn’t care even if it did.
Read MoreEl Sitio is The Place for tacos in Santa Barbara
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At El Sitio Restaurant in Santa Barbara, California the tacos and burritos are so authentic that they will transport your tastebuds to a taqueria in Mexico that you will not soon forget.
Read MoreProject Sichuan #8 - Gong Bao Chicken by any other name…
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Gong Bao Chicken is perhaps the most popular of all Sichuan dishes and is found in nearly every Chinese restaurant around the world under any variety of names, including Kung Pao. But there is only one real-deal Gong Bao dish — and this is it.
Read MoreProject Sichuan #7 - Mapo Tofu: a tribute to Pock-Faced Grandma
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Mapo Tofu is one of those Sichuan Food masterpieces that Chinese restaurants the world over now serve. And for those who think they don’t like tofu, Mapo Doufu is the dish to try to gain tofu enlightenment and a smile from the pock-faced grandma who created it.
Read MoreProject Sichuan #6 - Water Boiled Fish - Silky fish meets Sichuan fire.
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Water Boiled Fish (Shui Zhu Yu) is one of of those special Sichuan dishes that causes a hush of voices at the table when first presented – sizzling oil bubbling atop a boiling caldron of blazing red chiles, Sichuan peppercorns and snow white tiles of silky fish unlike any you’ve ever had anywhere.
Project Sichuan #5 - Dan Dan Noodles - Small eats with big taste
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With so many riffs on the recipe, it has been a search for great Dan Dan Mian and a lot of noodle eating to find the real-deal Dan Dan of my dreams. Wanna try them, too? Here is what you need to know.
Read MoreProject Sichuan #3 - Lazi Ji - Searching for Gastronomic Gold.
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Lazi Ji — or Chongqing Chicken — Those crispy little chunks of deep fried chicken buried in a pile of blazing red chiles and a fistfull of Sichuan peppercorns. It’s one of the most popular — and misunderstood — Sichuan dishes that needlessly strikes terror in the mind of diners who love the flavor but fear the heat.
Read MoreProject Sichuan #1 - To eat the food of Chengdu is to eat well.
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“China is the place for food, and Sichuan is the place for flavor.” (“Shi zai zhongguo, wei zai Sichuan.”). PROJECT SICHUAN kicks off with this introduction to the wonders of Sichuanese food. Start here and follow along in future posts!
Read MoreLady Jaye - A Sandwich for Dinner? Yes please!
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Sandwich for dinner? My knee-jerk response is to say No Way. But if you go to Lady Jaye for their Smoked Pork Belly Burnt Ends Banh Mi it will change the way you think of dinner, and maybe even of life.
Read MoreBeau Legs Fish ‘N’ Chips - with this NOLA cooking, you're bound to pass a good time.
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The NOLA style cooking of po boys, fried okra and pickles at Beau Legs Fish ‘n’ Chips in Lacey Washington makes you want to throw beads from a balcony and yell Laissez les bon temps rouler!
Read MoreBok-a-Bok Chicken -- the Renaissance Continues
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There is a fried chicken renaissance underway across America and the world. From Buttermilk Southern, to Nashville Hot and across to Korea Crispy, the choices for great chicken seem endless. But for something with a flavor and crispiness that will make you stop and rethink how to fry that humble bird of the barnyard, you have to go to Bok-a-Bok.
Read MoreGong Xi Fa Cai - Digital Dining for the New Year
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Chinese New Year 2021 — the year of the White OX — is difficult to celebrate in a traditional manner due to current COVID culture. So why not go virtual and celebrate with friends online? It’s Digital Dining and it’s almost as good as the real thing.
Read MoreRotisserie Madness: St. Croix's chicken magic.
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In St. Croix, US Virgin Islands there is a shack far from any sandy beach or turquoise surf where spare parts, used machinery and a pile of glowing coals come together to produce food you may never forget. What kind of shack? A chicken shack!
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