Restaurants

Crispy Yuba (Tofu Skin) Rolls - Recipe
Appetizers

Crispy Yuba (Tofu Skin) Rolls - Recipe

Yuba is a thin skin of tofu that is a byproduct of making soymilk. It is pulled in sheets off the top of the pot of boiling soymilk, much like the skin that forms on a pot of simmering cow’s milk. It can be made at …

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Portland Pod People - A Food Cart Revolution
Miscellany

Portland Pod People - A Food Cart Revolution

While Seattle has slowly come around to allowing street food vendors under somewhat onerous regulations, Portland has been nurturing this scene for years, with a huge and obvious benefit to civic life. I’m hoping every …

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Ubuntu Restaurant, Napa, CA - Restaurant Review
Restaurants

Ubuntu Restaurant, Napa, CA - Restaurant Review

I first heard about Ubuntu when Chef Jeremy Fox won a Best New Chef award from Food and Wine in 2008. I was thrilled to hear that a restaurant was cooking vegetables at that level, and simultaneously despondent that I …

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Restaurants

Harvest Vine - Basque Restaurant Review, Seattle, WA

Have you ever noticed that some great restaurants consistently put you in a certain mood? Harvest Vine, Seattle's great Basque restaurant always leaves me happy to be alive. Chef Joseba Jimenez de Jimenez himself has a …

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