Category Archives: Hungry Passport

Flexible Food

Lotus root slices look like nature’s little masks for hockey-playing mice, don’t you think? And they’re easy to pick up when you’re faced with using those slippery, lacquered chopsticks. It’s nice having food that both works and plays well with … Continue reading

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A Box For One’s Bread

I’m in the market for a new breadbox. We’ve grown tired of this old picnic basket in which we’ve kept bread and baked goods for too long now. It gets rattier by the year and has begun to unravel and … Continue reading

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Buy Yummy Stuff–Help With Japanese Relief Efforts

Today I mixed up the delicate batter for a double-jumbo batch of lemon-lavender madeleines. I parked it in the fridge, where it will spend its overnight hours engaged in the alchemy that will ensure light, fluffy little cakelettes. Tomorrow I’ll … Continue reading

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Making Healthy Food Fun For the Kiddos

One of the things I love about Italian food–and about Mediterranean food in general–is that with very few ingredients you can make something that’s seriously tasty. Of course it helps if you start out with fresh, in-season ingredients, because there’s … Continue reading

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Big Flavors In Tiny Packages

Remember those foil-wrapped chocolate oranges that usually show up around the holidays, the ones you whack against the table and they fall into a couple dozen slices? Tonight I devised the grown-up version. And a healthy one to boot. After … Continue reading

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