I learned something fundamental about traveling after my experience at Tempura Matsu, and that is, if you're completely dependent on guidebooks or travel sites, you'll miss out on so much.
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Rokurinsha's tsukemen is probably the most popular in Tokyo right now. If you've never tried tsukemen, it's a dipping ramen.
Photography credit : therynearsons.blogspot.com
In Japan during autumn, maple leaves that have been preserved in salt for a year, are tempura battered and fried as a seasonal snack.
Every summer, the kitchen team participates in sending off our interns with a very special gathering and dinner. This year, the theme was grad night. We were asked to do some portable familiar foods, and fancy it up a little. Here's our contribution:
Nihonryori RyuGin, No. 33 on the San Pellogrino World's 50 Best Restaurants list, is headed by bad ass kaiseki chef Seiji Yamamoto.
My current favorite comfort food from the Mom : crispy school prawns.
School prawns are small shrimp with sweet flesh and a very thin shell that crisps up very nicely when fried or sauteed.
I really respect David Chang, and the Momofuku brand, or more appropriately--empire--that he's built. His cookbook is one of the most approachable I've read, and is accessible to anyone even remotely interested in eating.
Joe's Shanghai was good! Not as good as Din Tai Fung, or Mei in Montreal (which is my favorite), but it's up there.
My Pastry Chef, and good friend, Jenna Ricks and her husband, John, throw an annual pig roast every year during Labor Day weekend.
This is the ultimate burger. For an 8 oz. burger, it's the lighest, heaviest burger you'll ever eat. This is due to the a technique pioneered by Heston Blumenthal of Fat Duck fame. This is how we do our version.
Ubuntu is closed now, but I never posted these pictures, so here you go.
Stumbled on upon this at Chasing Delicious. Ironically, I was looking for a reference for fregula, and this contains just about every pasta--except for fregula. Anyway, this poster is nice to have handy. Head over to the site directly for more info and history about pasta.
I've been following the guys at Nordic Food Lab for about a year now. They work closely with Noma in research and menu development, and they've been working on some pretty radical stuff.
When I heard the Chef de Cuisine of French Laundry, Corey Lee, left to open up his own restaurant in San Francisco, I was really excited. I think we all were; us cooks in the Bay Area, at least.
While the bar was preparing our drinks, we were served the dessert course, which was an assault on all the senses. Each one consisting of only one or two bites.
Had a great ice cream sandwich at State Bird Provisions and couldn't get it out of my mind. The next day, while eating ramen, I had an idea...
In an ongoing series on hybridizing fruit trees, Syracuse University sculptor Sam Van Aken’s Tree of 40 Fruit is true to its name.
I stumbled on this technique serendipitously. I was aiming for a flat-baked salmon chip, but it didn't work out as planned. Although, it ended up with a cool effect of looking like glass, it also tasted like glass, or at least, that's what it felt like we were chewing on. It was virtually unpalatable.
We saved the tenderloins from a whole goat we purchased from Marin Sun Farms. I had an idea to do goat lollipops. We seared the loin quickly to medium-rare, and then immediately spread it with a very smooth hummus before rolling it into a pangretto of falafel crumbs.