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What's your spice aversion?
Dill, sichuan peppercorns, horseradish
Off the Beaten Path: A Surprising One-Dollar Find at Flushing's Guangyuan Jinweishifang
Did you try their pot stickers? The big red sign advertises it.
Alicia Silverstone Concerned About Cruelty To Eggs
She sounds sorta.... nuts. What a weird relationship she seems to have with her food.
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Where To Carbo-Load Before The New York Marathon
I'm running Philly this year on the 22nd. It's my first marathon. Any suggestions for carb-loading options in Philadelphia? I was going to bring a bagel with me from NY to eat on the morning of the race but it probably wouldn't taste very delicious.
What's your spice aversion?
Dill, sichuan peppercorns, horseradish
Off the Beaten Path: A Surprising One-Dollar Find at Flushing's Guangyuan Jinweishifang
Did you try their pot stickers? The big red sign advertises it.
Alicia Silverstone Concerned About Cruelty To Eggs
She sounds sorta.... nuts. What a weird relationship she seems to have with her food.
What's your favorite food when drunk?
Fries with mustard, ketchup, black pepper dust, and malt vinegar. Got this at the kebab truck once in England and never looked back.
What Did You Eat Today?
Yogurt, an apple, and some toast for breakfast. A granola bar made by my friend when I was sitting in lecture for the 4th consecutive hour today. Some leftover spinach and pinto bean thing from last night for lunch, and a luna bar and an apple after my run. Dinner was roasted butternut squash with garam marsala with some miso white beans and kale on top. And then a waffle just because. Random....
Baby Pygmy Hippopotamus Wants Lettuce
OMG, He's SO EXCITED. I love that.
Cook the Book: 'Gourmet Today'
My first cookbook was "Simple Italian". There were maybe 40-50 recipes, and lots and lots of big pretty pictures. My mom gave it to me when I got my first apartment, and I cooked my way through that thing. It introduced me to kale, and clam sauce, and tuna and white bean salads. It's so stained now, but I still love it.
Best Challah in the city?
When I think Jewish market, I think Zabar's. I've never had their challah, but their coffee cake is amazing.
Cook the Book: 'Dishing Up Vermont'
For New York:
If you're in the city - ethnic food from anywhere and everywhere. Name a country and there's probably a decent ex-pat population in one of the boroughs.
If you're upstate - um... beer....and...buffalo wings? Honestly I've never been upstate.
Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 83: Bad Road Food Habits in Chicago
I went to Spain and actually lost weight. It's a very jamon based culture, and I don't like meat. Tortilla con patatas gets really old after the first week or so. I totally fell in love with boquerones though.
The Best Thing I ever Ate ...
Tree ripened peaches from hebei province, right near my home town of beijing. They're a cultivar that used to be delivered to the imperial family as tribute. Taking a bite was the quintessential moment of summer when I was little. They're so flavorful and juicy, and we bought them at roadside stands for something like 50 cents a kilo.
Macarons should be the new cupcakes
@squeezebottle: I thought whoopie pies were the new cupcake. Which is why I think macarons need advocacy. Write your congressperson (or Sarah Jessica Parker). Who do you think would be the Magnolia of the macaron world?
Garlic Scapes
I like to pickle mine in rice vinegar and Korean chili powder, and eat it over congee
Mmmm...Non-Breakfast Food Breakfast
buckwheat soba in miso soup, topped with a poached egg. Scallions and reconstituted wakame if I feel fancy. One pot breakfast of champions.
Fancy Fast Food
I .... wha..... why?
It doesn't taste any different, and it's still really bad for you. If you're going through all that effort anyways, why not just prepare some real food?
Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 73: Sometimes Only Dark Chocolate Malted Milk Balls Will Do: What's Your Weakness?
Bread. I just ate a slice of pizza bianca from sullivan street bakery, since I was in that part of town. I had to stop myself from buying one of their loaves because I know I'd eat it all. I bought rolls instead. Sensible dinner, sensible dinner, or at least that's what I tell myself.
Threadless T-Shirt Giveaway: Lemon Aid
OMG so cute!
I have extra lemons from a tuna and white bean salad recipe. Guess where they're ending up?
I garnish mine with lemon balm. I also leave it unsweetened and serve with simple syrup to taste.
Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 71: Do You Eat Only When You're Hungry? What A Concept!
Your posts are always inspiring, Ed. I'm trying to develop a healthy relationship with food, and trying to learn my body's cues. So, essentially, trying to do what you do and eat when I'm hungry and stopping when I'm full. It's the most rational and maintainable strategy I can think of, so good luck to both of us.
Win Tickets To The Great American Food & Music Fest
Drumming up some serious deliciousness.
Reluctant Indifference: Scones
I've got a collection of scone recipes because I want SO MUCH to like them. I must say there's quite a lot of variability in the final scone, and it really depends on what each person's idea of a perfect scone really is. I've made the traditional scottish kind that are more like biscuits, as well as the super american kind that's more like a cupcake with a crust. Either kind can be wonderful.
Over the moon for macaroons!!
Macaron, macaroon. Love all around
Regional Fast Food Chains
Oh my god, the Maid Right gum wall! I remember going there as a kid and how I loved their pickles. I haven't thought about that place in ages and ages. We'd go after school (Greenville Junior High, represent) or on the weekends. They sold T shirts.
Wow, sure brings back memories.
What's your spice aversion?
CUMIN... after 3 weeks in India a few years ago, i developed an aversion to cumin after a whole week straight of eating food seasoned with cumin. Everything tasted the same.
Now, I can't even smell it at the supermarket.
Where To Carbo-Load Before The New York Marathon
Aynsl156, doing the same! im ready to attack philly's burgers post-, not sure about pre-.
What's your spice aversion?
I really like the flavor of all spice, but it always causes me to get nauseous. I don't like anise, but I do like fennel.
What's your spice aversion?
I almost thought I had nothing to add, but then @vegetarianka mentioned white pepper. While I don't detest it, I never cook with it as I think it has a musty aroma. I've never liked whole caraway in rye or pumperknickel bread but then I made Bobby Flay's red cabbage sauerkraut, and Jacques Pepin's stuffed cabbage, both of which have caraway as an ingredient and have made me appreciate caraway as more than just an annoying seed in an otherwise tasty slice of bread.
What's your spice aversion?
I have several:
White pepper-smells/tastes like rotting flesh to me
Saffron- overpowers everything, and I prefer my food to have it's own natural color.
Turmeric-see "saffron"
What's your spice aversion?
Dill and cilantro. Cilantro, to me, tastes like licking the inside of a tuna can. I absolutely hate it!
What's your spice aversion?
Fenugreek is gross. I can tolerate rosemary, but only in small quantities. My roommates sometimes take the liberty of sprinkling white pepper on my food when we eat together. No thank you.
What's your spice aversion?
Tarragon - most people who use it overuse it.
Anise - never did like it.
What's your spice aversion?
anything overwhelmingly licorice flavored (i can't do star anise, but i can do anise in biscotti), and anything with too much cumin...i'm not a huge fan of cumin
What's your spice aversion?
I don't care for celery salt, especially if it's around the rim of my bloody mary.
What's your spice aversion?
"Cookie spices" when uses in savory foods can be offputting to me. I use them sparingly and taste as I go. Nutmeg in particular. That one I will always leave out.
Licorice flavored herbs and spices can be really cloying to me (tarragon, anise, fennel), so that's another group I use sparingly or not at all.
What's your favorite food when drunk?
Days of college, days of youth, six parts gin to one part vermouth
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1919716
What's your favorite food when drunk?
This must be the dumbest question I've ever seen on this site. Get serious.
What's your favorite food when drunk?
Actually ANYTHING with a Side of Hot Man is good... drunk or sober!
What's your favorite food when drunk?
Whataburger taquitos: bacon, egg & cheese (with picante) or a Philly cheesesteak. Depends on whether I am in Texas or NJ/PA at the time of said drunk.
What's your favorite food when drunk?
I don't get drunk anymore, but after a few drinks, if there is cold fried chicken left over, it's gone! Dave
What's your favorite food when drunk?
I don't know that it's actually considered food, but I can kill some Taco Bells after having a few "pops". Grease is GOOD!!! LOL!!!
What's your favorite food when drunk?
katerine, if i had the ingredients to make poutine at home, i would! i would have to drive to dysarts restaurant and, well, i would be drunk, *sigh* i wish they delivered.
What's your favorite food when drunk?
When I was in Korea, the food trucks with the spiciest dukbukki were the best...the raging heartburn the next day, not so much
What's your favorite food when drunk?
Cheese fries with feta dip from The Grill in Athens, GA (open 24 hours, and they don't mind my drunken revelry!) or animal style from an In N Out. Although I'm pretty sure everybody likes about anything from LaFonda dogs by the UGA library, in terms of nasty-ass street food. I'm nursing a gin and tonic right now, and getting absolutely ravenous reading your posts!
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I'm running Philly this year on the 22nd. It's my first marathon. Any suggestions for carb-loading options in Philadelphia? I was going to bring a bagel with me from NY to eat on the morning of the race but it probably wouldn't taste very delicious.