Category: Food-Related Entertainment
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Friendly Friday:
Instant Pot – Virtually Instant, Really!Recently, I had a chance to visit my fellow Minnesotan friend Tanya, her spouse Justin, and their daughter Mabel in Portland. They graciously had me over for dinner, and I got to see a demo of the Instant Pot. Apparently she was so excited about it she bought a second one when it was on…
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Friendly Friday: Sari Kamin’s Food Without Borders
There’s a new food podcast out, add it to your list, friends! Sari Kamin started putting out Food Without Borders last month, brought to you by the only online food station Heritage Radio Network. Sari previously hosted ‘The Morning After,” a fun show about the restaurant industry, and felt inspired to create Food Without Borders to do something more meaningful. I think food…
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Singapore: Hawker Centre Crash Course
Singapore is famous for its food culture, and although there are certainly high-end top-dollar restaurants with 10-course menus that would charm the foodiest ex-pat executive, the heart of that food culture lives in the local hawker centres. Street food is a common cultural institution throughout the world, but has a special place in Southeast Asia…
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The Tapas of Al Andalus in Spain
A guest post by Karl: Besides the amazing architecture of Al Andalus (the name of southern Spain during the times of the Islamic rule from ~700 – 1492, the area now known as Andalusia), the area is also known for tapas. Tapas are generally served in most bars and restaurants. Some only serve tapas, and…
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Friendly Friday:
2017 Living Breath Indigenous Foods and Ecological Knowledge SymposiumLast Friday was The Living Breath of wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ: Indigenous Foods and Ecological Knowledge Symposium. Folks from afar had made it to the University of Washington campus, including youth leadership from tribes as far away as NE Alaska.* If you’re interested in advancing your knowledge in food movements, or advancing equity, there’s exciting work afoot from…
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Friendly Friday: Introducing the Bizarro Tumblr, a Look Behind the Scenes
My friend Amy asked me when I was in Minnesota once, “do you ever make recipes that don’t turn out?” and that spurred me starting a collection of fail/disappointment pictures. These have been deposited here as a stream, and has started to include situations I think funny. You know, we’re all human, and we might as well…
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Going Home
Taiwan Adventures 1Dear reader, I’m trying something different this time with the writing. Let me know how it goes. Thanks! Y Belonging is a funny thing. As an Asian American kid growing up in Minnesota, I just wanted to be like everyone else I knew. My mother (born in Taiwan) persistently spoke to me in Chinese despite…