Category: food & drinks
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Banana Flambe – Betty Don’t Die
Sue organized a surprise birthday dinner with friends for me at Les Halles at Park Avenue last night. The evening concluded with desserts, one of which was the banana flambe prepared tableside. Our waitress wheeled over a little serving trolley with stove, and parked it next to Betty. Sprinkled with powered sugar, the bananas were…
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vacation food porn #7-#11
And the series continues with … vacation food porn #7 – grilled lemon chiboust, refreshing champagne and crusty coconut chocoroll, baked peach in cacao butter, diluted wine, gelati vacation food porn #8 – thyme-marinated duck magret, tangerine chutney, pistachio and honeyvacation food porn #9 – shrimp cocktail al fresco vacation food porn #10 – beef…
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vacation food porn #5 and #6
And the series continues with … vacation food porn #5: sugar blast, red fruits, pistachio souffle (in back) vacation food porn #6: salmon fried, ali oii tournedo, potato and line of harissa
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vacation food porn #1-#4 recap
These pictures were previously posted on our sister blog at www.chrisandsue.tumblr.com. I just want to consolidate our vacation pictures here with a re-post. Sorry about the repetitions if you have seen these pictures already. The “vacation food porn” series is by no means near its end as we have a whole lot more dishes to share. vacation…
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Haute Cuisine without Mao Zedong
For the trip to Mexico, I picked up Fuchsia Dunlop’s sweet-sour memoir – “Shark’s fin and Sichuan pepper” at JFK. I have read her article(s) in some travel/food magazines before, but did not realize the full extent of her immersion in Chinese food culture. I will post more about her book here. When I saw…
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Oh-Toro from 680-lb bluefin tuna
Mitsuwa had their annual bluefin tuna cutting demonstration this weekend. Amy and Jason came over and we went to see the noon performance. The crowd is five or more deep. The guy claimed that it will be better than anything you can get from Nobu, Masa, or Yasuda. We saw the 680 pound fish…