I'm Not Julia Child

One of my favorite cookery writers is Claudia Roden, and one of my favorite cooking books, Roden's Arabesque .  The book is a wonderful...

Kartika Review just came out with their fabulous Home issue.  OK, I am a little biased as my short story "The Gratitude of Bones...

Toshio Yamamoto eats instant ramen five times a week for breakfast.  I found out about him through Lisa Katayama's post on Boing Boing ....

The nice thing about spring is all the abundance of fruits that are coming to market.  I know — you can get fruits year round, but I hate bu...

One of my favorite cookery writers is Fuchsia Dunlop . An English woman, she trained as a Chinese chef at the Sichuan Institute of Higher C...

Whenever I'd go into an Asian grocery store, I'd look for ginkgo nuts. I absolutely love ginkgo nuts — they have this unique, indes...

One of my favorite salads is a green mango or green papaya salad (although I have to give green mangoes the edge). You usually see the dish...