” explains Max Falkowitz for the websiteTaste,adding that such salads do not appear in early Italian cookbooks. “However, American newspapers and cookbooks as early as 1914 started printing recipes for macaroni salads to be served on lettuce leaves, molded like jello, or mixed with other ...
Issenberg, Sasha
It was my first time on business class and, being the dorky type, I was almost as excited for the flight as I was for the vacation in Japan. When the United flight attendant served me a bowl of fresh, warm nuts the minute my butt hit the seat, I was pretty much on my way to a...
Tuna or “Maguro” is the most popular fish for sushi and sashimi lovers in Japan (and abroad). It is said that more than 60% of total catch is consumed in Japan alone (and probably a lot higher depending on species). Incidentally, Japan is not the single bigger consumer of fish. Spa...
-Bottom centre: “Aori Ika/あおり烏賊, Great Fin Reef Squid from Suruga Bay in Shizuoka Prefecture. -Bottom right: Akami/lean part from same tuna. (Picture taken at Sushi Ko, Shizuoka City, Japan) For all his own research done the old iconoclast geezer once again runs the risk of being...
Or maybe it’s because the public, via sushi bars and high-end Italian restaurants, has learned to cherish fresh tuna, the unsustainable kind that looks like bloody flesh as it sits in the fishmonger’s iced window. Wait, there are hardly any fishmongers left, either. Well, rest easy, ...