Food the Wong Way, and some other hobbies
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Seattle’s Bike Share Cage Match is on
like Donkey KongThere’s a new colorful set of creatures out in the lush urban jungle of Seattle. As native Seattlites hurry sweatily through the last summer “heat wave” of 76-80 degree weather, you might glimpse a flash of green and yellow behind a tree, a cheery orange appendage sidling up to the pavement, or a blur of…
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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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How long do you boil corn? A guest blog post by Susannah Lewis
How long should you boil corn? It sounds like a straightforward question, but your answer says a lot about where you grew up and your relationship to corn. Although I grew up in Iowa, where corn is indeed king, I’ve lived in several very different regions of the country as an adult (Rocky Mountains, Pacific…
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Braised Chickpea Chard Coconut Meal
Translated for Backpacking!Components: 1 c dehydrated braised chickpea chard coconut & couscous 1.5 c hot boiled water About 35 minutes sit time, stir after 20* Bored with your dehydrated backpacking meal rotation? This just in: braised coconut chickpea & spinach recipe from The Kitchn works out as a dehydrated camp meal! Completed my trial of it yesterday…
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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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I learned to bike when I was 18
I learned to bike when I was eighteen. I had gone on the University of Minnesota’s excellent study abroad program to Tianjin, China. It’s two hours south of Beijing by train. The first week Charles Sanft, our Program Director took us to buy bikes for $20 apiece and told us that’d be our main transportation…
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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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5 Tips to Get Around Taipei
5 Things to Know About Getting Around Taipei – It is SO easy to get around! ..once you take a few steps to get going. Here are a few tips I learned from my trip there.
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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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