“Fashion is in Europe, living is in America, but eating is in China.” – Chinese proverb By request, I recently started teaching a short, four-session cooking series that I’m calling Four Chinese Meals. The idea was simply to come up with four different meals that would both teach and showcase various techniques of Chinese cooking,… Read More Two of Four Chinese Meals
“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” – Seneca, 1st century Roman philosopher Let me start by saying that I had a huge amount of fun in the kitchen this weekend, and it started me thinking…. Things are about to change a it here at Casa SaltShaker. Oh, no worries, we’re not going… Read More The Start of a New Chapter
“They shall have no food but of thorns, Which will neither fatten nor avail against hunger.” – Qur’an, 88:6 Given how difficult it was to finally get to eat lunch at Al Zein, Arce 488, Las Cañitas, just like with the shawarma, we really wanted to like the food. But upfront, I have to tell… Read More Who Put the Bab in the Babaganoush…?
“The first Jewish family I met asked me if I spoke Yiddish,” Bortnick remembers, now laughing. “When I said that I had never heard Yiddish in my life, they said, ” What kind of Jew are you?” She had to learn what a dreidel was and how latkes tasted. As a result, she felt she… Read More Of Dreidels and Menorahs
“Fish don’t fry in the kitchen; Beans don’t burn on the grill. Took a whole lotta tryin’, Just to get up that hill. Now we’re up in the big leagues, Gettin’ our turn at bat. As long as we live, it’s you and me baby, There ain’t nothin wrong with that. Well we’re movin on… Read More Nueva Peruana, Once Again
“The Chinese noted with surprise and disgust the ability of the Mongol warriors to survive on little food and water for long periods; according to one, the entire army could camp without a single puff of smoke since they needed no fires to cook. Compared to the Jurched soldiers, the Mongols were much healthier and… Read More Mongol Fun in the Kitchen
“Then she was given dinner with all the nice parts left out and sent to bed for two solid hours. It was a thing that happened to one quite often in those days.” – from C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew, Book 6, Chronicles of Narnia It’s been quite some time since my last shawarma update,… Read More Chronicles of Shawarma – Book VI
“The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands I’m in the midst of a couple of very time consuming projects, along with this… Read More Naturally Speaking…