While shopping at Target this week, one item caught my eye:
the General Tso's potato chips. Take the flavor of a Chinese-American favorite and roll it into a chip—how does this rank among Things That Taste Like Other Things?
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Note: Lee Zalben, a.k.a. "the Peanut Butter Guy" is the creator of the Peanut Butter & Co., a New York sandwich shop with a national line of nut butters. Every week he'll chime in with some nuttiness. This week, he questions the authenticity of Kung Pao chicken. [Flickr: Lewi Hirvela] They call me "The Peanut Butter Guy." Everyone just assumes I know everything there is to know about peanuts and peanut butter, even the most esoteric and tangential of facts. I was out with some friends the other night at a popular Chinese restaurant in Manhattan. Of course I ordered the Kung Pao chicken. In part, because wherever I go, everyone always expects me to order the dish on the...
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Chinese food expert and cookbook author
Fuchsia Dunlop was at Williams-Sonoma in New York City earlier this week to promote her new book
Revolutionary Chinese Cookbook: Recipes from Hunan Province
. Serious Eats tagged along with her to bring you this video, in which she prepares a Taiwanese version of
General Tso's chicken.
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