Restaurants

Crispy Yuba (Tofu Skin) Rolls - Recipe
Appetizers

Crispy Yuba (Tofu Skin) Rolls - Recipe

Crispy Yuba (Tofu Skin) Rolls 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 …

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Portland Pod People - A Food Cart Revolution
Miscellany

Portland Pod People - A Food Cart Revolution

I’ve written previously about how Seattle is experiencing a resurgence of food carts. They have taken our culinary scene by storm, cooking up everything from Korean-Hawaiian tacos to poutine. What I didn’t understand …

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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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