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What is it with kewpie mayonnaise?
"umami incarnate" Ian Knauer/Grub Street This post actually and somewhat indirectly comes from one of Nigel Slater's first recipes -...
Sep 16, 2024
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Noodle burgers
"It's a food born in America that happens to combine two different cultures and makes them exist as one. The perfect symbol of America." ...
Mar 24, 2024
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Hodgepodge
"Hodgepodge: a jumble, a heterogenous mixture" Merriam-Webster Dictionary "a confused mixture, a hotchpotch" Oxford Languages...
Jun 5, 2023
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The wonderful world of ramen
"For all that Japan has invented in the 20th century, the digital clock, Walkman, Nintendo and Pokemon, the Japanese consider their...
Apr 4, 2023
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In passing
"done or said when your main focus is something different" Oxford Learner's Dictionary "briefly and casually" Google? My main focus in...
Mar 9, 2023
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The ultimate fusion dish
"It's Japan's chilli, its bacon cheeseburger, its meatloaf and gravy all in one, a hangover-killing man meal found in bars and...
Nov 11, 2022
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Doncaster Japanese
“Being Japanese isn't just about the language – it is the service, the attitude.” Alvin Gani, Manager Ippudo Melbourne CBD Yesterday we...
Jul 7, 2022
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Sundries
"various different small things that are considered together, usually because they are not important enough to be considered separately" ...
Jul 3, 2022
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Beauty for the street library?
"For me, good food comes about only if you put yourself in it. Food is for giving, and the act of cooking is a gift from the cook to the...
Mar 10, 2022
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Does anyone make soufflé anymore?
"It feels more like magic than cooking." Nigel Slater I'm attempting a bit of a tidy up of my desktop pile of books of potential...
Mar 1, 2022
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Japanese (sansai udon) from Madhur Jaffrey
"Most of the vegetables Keiko used grew wild in the hills around her. Each had been cooked separately and then arranged over the noodles...
Jan 25, 2022
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Panko
"Invented by soldiers and cooked only with electrical currents, panko could be the most interesting baked good since sliced bread."...
Nov 14, 2021
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Matcha
"powdered green tea with a bitter, chalky and chlorophyll flavour - is the Marmite of the tea world." Olive Magazine Every now and then...
Nov 2, 2021
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Seaweed - a super plant, not necessarily a super food
What’s slimy, a bit smelly, and all the rage in fashionable kitchens? Seaweed." Alice-Azania Jarvis - The Guardian Seaweed has been on...
Jul 6, 2021
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Ramen
"Life without ramen is sad and incomplete" Ramen is Life Back to food today - and back to Coles Magazine, which, this month had a recipe...
Jun 29, 2021
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Do you know about okonomiyaki?
" it’s a loose collection of ingredients bound by the barest amount of glue." Felicity Cloake Last week's How to cook the perfect ......
May 18, 2021
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