Monday, March 8, 2010 - By Asad
Hi, I’m Asad. You may remember me from such comments as “Unlike Jeffrey Steingarten, I know how to hold a spoon” and “This looks…NOM” as well as from Z’s link to my own blog about cheeseburgers. Now, I don’t just eat pre-made cheeseburgers and write about them. Sometimes I make my own food, and sometimes the food I make is an unholy-but-delicious intersection of my work life as a physicist and my food life as…a physicist. Such is the case with liquid nitrogen ice cream.
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Sunday, March 7, 2010 - By Harold
It’s still winter in Korea and when it comes to winters, Korean winters are pretty mild. As a Southern California native, I don’t think it’s a picnic to walk around with my face all numb, but it can get worse. Just ask a Canadian. You can tell who the Canadians are in winter because they’re the ones walking around in effeminate little bike shorts always yammering about how mild the winters are compared to the cold hell of Canadian winters.
Effeminate bike-short-wearing Canadians aside, the end of winter is the time to start planning and thinking about a vegetable garden for the spring. This involves making a compost bucket and preparing pots for planting.
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Saturday, March 6, 2010 - By Harold
A short time ago somewhere in South Korea, some dude named Harold read this blog and said to himself, “Golly, I’d sure like to get in on that action.” For once in his miserable life he got what he wanted.
Z can write about goat cheeses, roasts, and prosciutto because he can. He lives in San Francisco, which is the place to be if you like eating, cooking, and writing about a variety of delicious foods. I, however, live near Daegu, South Korea which is the third largest city in Korea. If you like Korean food and only Korean food, this country is a good place to be. But if you want to eat something different every once in a while, things can get challenging.
My blog posts will largely be in part how I deal with those challenges. I’m starting a rooftop garden that I hope won’t be discovered by my landlord. When I discover an ingredient I couldn’t find before, you’ll be there too, doing a little victory dance in the shelves with me (I do it, so what? What are you going to do about it?). And when I eat my favorite Korean foods, I’ll tell you why they’re so damn delicious.
Stay tuned!
(Z’s Note: The above picture wasn’t even taken in Korea. It was taken at a food festival Harold went to in Malaysia. Also, Harold is not aware that I chose this picture to post.)
Thursday, March 4, 2010 - By Z
Yes, it’s been awhile since I’ve posted (AGAIN), but rest assured, good things are in the works. I have made some delicious meals with some fun new experiments and better yet, my guest bloggers have started guest blogging (though the posts haven’t been published yet).
Raspberry cayenne sauce, rooftop composting, and ice cream… from the FUTURE!
I will have some free time coming up and plan on devoting a good chunk of it to updating the site. To whet your appetites, just know that you will be reading about ice cream, brownie, and chocolate chip cookie with raspberry cayenne sauce by me (and Elliotte), the beginnings of a rooftop garden in Korea by Harold, and liquid nitrogen ice cream by Asad. I also plan on going to an “underground” farmer’s market this weekend and will report back on any finds.
Until then, “What’s for lunch?”
(Note: There is no actual riposte in this post and for that matter, the repast is to come. I went with mellifluity over makingsensery.)
Saturday, February 20, 2010 - By Z
I realize it’s been awhile since I’ve last posted, but rest assured that I have good things in the works for you, my dear readers. Both of you are in for a treat when we start getting dispatches from our new guest bloggers. If all works out, we will have an English teacher (and my old roommate) writing about his adventures growing a rooftop garden in Korea, an astrophysicist telling us about his culinary experiments in Minnesota (and if you happen to live in the Twin Cities area or just really love cheeseburgers, check out his blog), and a culinary student in London who is preparing to start at Le Cordon Bleu. So, once I manage to tweak the code on the site so that the guest posts fit in seamlessly, we’ll be ready to go. Stay tuned.
Now, I know what you’re thinking… “That’s all well and good, but I don’t want promises of food in the future. I want food now.” And, while I haven’t been in the kitchen as much of late, I have had some excellent meals. Among my favorite (if not my very favorite) was a home-cooked meal by my good friend Elliotte’s mother.
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