Recipes, kitchen notes, comfort cooking
The $2 Oyster That Changes Everything Most visitors land in New York, wander into the first restaurant that looks good, and walk out wondering how dinner cost $90.…
Chili Peppers Crush Oranges for Vitamin C Oranges have had a hundred-year head start in the PR game. Early 20th-century advertising campaigns pushed orange juice on its vitamin content so relentlessly that the orange-equals-vitamin-C equation hardened into folk wisdom. Almost nobody questioned it. They should have. A cup of raw red chili peppers delivers 364…
Sweden’s Most Notorious Tin Durian gets all the press. Banned from hotels, ejected from subway cars, described as rotten onions crossed with dead cat — it has built a fearsome reputation across Southeast Asia. But spend five minutes researching truly offensive food smells and durian starts to look almost polite. Start with surströmming. This Swedish…