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  Satisfried

  05.09.11 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  There’s a lot about the American diet and food culture that doesn’t click with me: meat, butter, white bread, meat. The lack of diverse dining options (though I know this is not true of everywhere in the US), the high cost of ‘fresh’ produce. A huge part of the reason I love China (and many [...]

  

• baking, home cooking, mysterious ingredients, recipes

  Be Your Own Betty Crocker

  05.02.11 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  Since being back in America, I have had to deal with exposure to things that seemed foreign to me after my years in China. For example, soap in the bathrooms, toilet paper in the bathrooms, dishwashers, clothes dryers, plain yogurt, and brown rice, to name a few. Readjustment hasn’t been all that hard in most [...]

  

• home cooking, recipes

  You Say Haroseth, I Say Charoset

  04.20.11 | Permalink | 11 Comments

  When I lived in China, situations would arise when I would tell people I was Jewish. Once, I was at a restaurant for an official school dinner when we were served a chicken-brothy soup with dumplings in it that was strikingly similar to matzoh ball soup. My assessment somehow made it to the ears of [...]

  

• America, animals, cooking, florida, florida restaurants, Gerald, home cooking, MEAT, Parks, Reverse Culture Shock

  A Round of Light Boxing

  04.19.11 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  I’ve now been in Florida 6 months, and let’s not pretend it has been an easy transition, because it hasn’t. The job market here is about as dry as British humor and not nearly as entertaining (though in a coup, I recently had an interview, which is as far as it went). The unavoidable and [...]

  

• cooking, home cooking, huzhou, recipes, Singapore, travel

  In My Head I’m Gone

  03.17.10 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  One might think that after 5 weeks of non-stop travel, and not the resort kind, that one would be ready to get home and get back into the groove, back to the familiarity and the friends and beds and bathrooms of established quality. Well one might be wrong. There. I said it. WRONG. Because actually, [...]

  

• baking, butter, Christmas, home cooking, huzhou, mysterious ingredients, recipes

  The Bun Also Rises

  12.27.09 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Every year for Thanksgiving, my family and I headed out to the desert for a potluck lunch with my grandparents’ friends and their families. Though the location changed a few times, we were always out in the desert, eating turkey and hiking and playing volleyball. Every year one of my grandmother’s good friends, Susan, would [...]

  

• cooking, holidays, home cooking, huzhou, recipes

  The Huzhou Food Jew is a Lonely Eater

  12.13.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  If anyone in my life has influenced my cooking, it would be my paternal grandmother, Nana. Both my mother and father are good cooks, but with the triple whammy of an ultra-picky daughter, working, and, you know, raising two kids, they didn’t have a lot of time to devote to culinary endeavors until I was [...]

  

• baking, butter, cake, chocolate, cooking, dessert, holidays, home cooking, huzhou, recipes, Thanksgiving

  Pre-Pear-ed

  12.02.09 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  Western/American holidays in China have a totally different meaning than they do at ‘home.’ Having a Christmas party or a Thanksgiving dinner is, at least for me, more about nostalgia and comfort than about the actual holiday. I didn’t have a big party at my house so that we could all think about the Pilgrims. [...]

  

• butter, chocolate, dessert, home cooking, housecleaning, huzhou, Thanksgiving, unruly chefs

  Elbow Butter

  11.24.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  This pretty much sums up everything I don’t like about cooking and baking: Not to mention that this time of year, hot water usage comes down to: shower or sink? Given that I usually opt for the hot shower, doing the dishes becomes a numbing chore in the literal and figurative sense. But if dishes [...]

  

• cooking, Gerald, home cooking, huzhou

  Extra Sharp

  11.16.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  I can hardly believe that this wasn’t my idea: But the idea man behind buttering two pieces of bread and melting some cheese between them (Edam and cheddar, if you’re curious, Gerald) deserves credit, as well as a spot on the Plate of Wander cast of characters. Meet George. He doesn’t smile in photographs. I [...]

  

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