Category: food & drinks
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
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