Quest for Authentic Food, Everyday Chinese and Grilled Chicken Mistakes

Everyday Chinese cooking is the art of turning the most humble ingredients into culinary gold... Even though it's a cookout classic, chicken can be tough to get right on the grill... Char siu fan? Learn to grill Chinese-style...

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The bogus quest for 'authentic' food

"One of the most delicious and interesting dishes I've tasted recently is the "curry leaf burrata""

The word is plastered over cookbooks, ingredients and recipes, but just what is 'authentic' food?...

The Guardian ~ The bogus quest for 'authentic' food

The Telegraph ~ Everyday Chinese cooking: alchemy on a plate

Food Republic ~ Illustrated Guide To Grilling: China

Bonappetit ~ 7 Common Grilled Chicken Mistakes

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“Alice came to a fork in the road. 'Which road do I take?' she asked.
'Where do you want to go?' responded the Cheshire Cat.
'I don't know,' Alice answered.
'Then,' said the Cat, 'it doesn't matter.”
~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland (goodreads.com)

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Food Meditations

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Healthy Eats ~ 22 Healthiest Summer Desserts

ZipList ~ Mexican-Style Grilled Corn Recipe

Huffington Post Gross Ingredients In Processed Foods

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Cooking for Solutions:
An Alternative to Chef-Provocateurs

"Last week in an interview with The New York Times, chefs Thomas Keller..."

Chefs are artists. Good ones draw people in with their inspired plates and atmosphere–performance art meets flavor...

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"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral."
~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras, 1942 (quotegarden.com)

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Los Angeles Times ~ Butchers regaining respect

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Sheepshead Bay Blue Bridge NYC and American-Chinese Food

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Chinese immigrants created dishes like orange chicken for Chinese, and it's as tasty and as "Chinese" as any food in mainland China... For a food critic, professional or not, every dinner has the potential to become violent... After a decade of intensive genetically modified plant cultivation, weeds have emerged that are resistant to the most popular herbicide...

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Celebrate culinary creativity ~
Top 50 American foods

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"Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin."
~Barbara Kingsolver (quotegarden.com)

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