Cookbooks › Every Grain Of Rice by Fuschia Dunlop

  2001. Life before internet. Supermarkets sold two types of soy sauce: regular and low sodium. Rice, available in boxes, was always white, parboiled, and cooked in a minute. Water chestnuts tasted of the cans they were sold in. This was the environment that greeted Fuchsia Dunlop’s Land of Plenty. Fast…

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Spicy Cold Chinese Noodles

August 14, 2018

More properly referred to as Spicy And Numbing Cold Noodles, Spicy Chinese Noodles hail China’s Sichuan Province, a place known for hot, muggy summers and the ingestion of chile-laden foods to counter said wet heat. I’ve prepared Spicy Cold Chinese Noodles with corn, wax beans, red peppers, chile peppers, fresh…

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Chinese Takeout Noodles

July 27, 2017

Breezy little blog posts are increasingly impossible. This week gave us Chester Bennington’s death, the migrant tragedy in the Texas Walmart lot, Venezuela, Yemen, and Syria. Atop all this, a gibbering idiot is running amok in the White House. In this context, Chinese Takeout Noodles are beyond trivial. Then again,…

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Now, some of you read fermented tofu and freaked out. Don’t lie. Perhaps you’re thinking of that famously stinky stuff considered a Chinese delicacy, tofu that evokes Vincent Price, in another context, intoning about the funk of 40,000 thousand years. Am I right? The IK, she’s here to ease your…

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Stir-Fried Green Beans With Rice Cake is a compromise dish. Compromise because Mr. IK loves green beans while your hostess does not. She will, however, eat just about anything that’s been stir-fried. Now, I saw some of you flinch at the rice cake. Rice cakes are available at Asian markets,…

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Caregiver’s Noodles

March 15, 2017

You’re wondering what these are. These thigmajigs, scmetchiks, whaddayacallits, are a crucial part of a wheelchair user’s day–that is, if the wheelchair user has a “swing-away” style footrest on his chair. The above objects are called endcaps. Their job is to hold wheelchair footrests in place while allowing them to…

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Back-in-the-Pot-Pork

March 14, 2016

My community college photography classmates would have decimated the shot below. After slowly feeding my ego through the wood-chipper for using color film, a choice signaling rank amateurism, the group would have settled in for a nice long discourse about compositional elements. Meaning ninety minutes on the blue rubber band. Fortunately, none…

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