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Heading to the Kitchen
It is before 7:00 Saturday morning and I'm getting ready to head to a friend's house. Nat and I are co-hosting a dinner this evening and we're going to start preparing at about 8:00. Looking at 12-14 diners and the men… -
Food in Chiang Mai: Huen Jai Yong
On our final day in Chiang Mai, Tawn and I drove east of the city to search for Huen Jai Yong, a restaurant highly recommended by our hotel's staff. Four or five people around the front desk agreed that this was the res… -
Food in Chiang Mai - Khao Soi Sameujai Faaham
Back to food in Chiang Mai, after a morning spent teaching monks how to cook, err... make sandwiches, I was hungry for some Thai food. The previous day Tawn and I had tried one highly recommended place for khao soi, the… -
Food in Chiang Mai: Huen Phen
When four independent sources, sources who are friends, colleagues, and other trustworthy sorts, recommend a restaurant, it's a fair bet that the restaurant is worth visiting. For our first dinner in Chiang Mai, we want… -
Food in Chiang Mai - Grandmother's Khao Soi
Sometimes you have bits and pieces of information in your head but they have yet to coalesce into a linked arrangement that qualifies as knowledge. Prior to this trip to Chiang Mai, that described the state of affairs i… -
Food in BKK: Din Tai Fung
After a year's delay caused by the May 2010 political protests and subsequent fires, Taiwanese dumpling chain Din Tai Fung recently opened its first branch in Thailand at the Central World Plaza mall at the Ratchaprasong… -
Trying to Eat Healthy
Most weeknights, Tawn and I try to eat dinner at home. Whatever I cook, it almost always includes a salad with lots of vegetables. This is our attempt to fill up on veggies, rather than on meats and carbs. Sometimes,… -
A Healthy Start
In an attempt to add a little (relatively healthful) variety to my usual breakfast of oatmeal, I bake batches of granola made of rolled oats and barley, nuts, wheat germ, dried coconut, and flax seed, all of which is lig… -
Food in LA - Musha in Torrance
About two years ago, Gary and William took me to the Santa Monica branch of Musha, a Japanese izakaya, or small plates, restaurant. They have another branch a few miles south in Torrance and I took the opportunity durin… -
Food in Long Beach: Starling Diner
Near the end of our trip to Los Angeles last month, while driving down the Pacific Coast Highway to visit Janet for tea, we stopped for brunch at the Starling Diner. Located on East Third Street in Long Beach, the look…
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