I saw this video first on the Vegan Lunchbox (a really cool blog in and of itself): a 92 year old cook and great grandmother recounting her childhood and recreating dishes she ate during the Great Depression. How cool is that? IMHO, very! My husband's grandparents were maybe a year or two older than this woman when they passed this year and last ( Read more... )

I recently read a thread on one of my favorite sushi sites regarding how to cook rice.  Few topics have such ardent partisans of multiple viewpoints (Except maybe the upcoming election, but I'm being facetious.) And one tip, which came from a Japanese cookbook, seemed so weird that I had to give it a try ( Read more... )