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Photo of the Day: Rice Field

Great pic. Rice is a mystery to me. I have been a lifelong life-eater (typical for South Indians) but two things I can never find the answer to.

First, rice always tends to bloat me and certain types of rice are almost like sleeping pills. I have to sleep right after consuming it.

Second, cooking it has never been easy. I finally settled on a pressure cooker method that works, but this is after many many many false starts.

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Teriyaki: Seattle's Signature Dish

I'm not sold on the article. I can see how/why there were places in Seattle in the early 1900s, but the later post 1980s growth is not really notable - if anything I would chalk it up to suburban expansion.

As far as great food in Seattle traditionally I can think of two: sushi and thai. Now it's branching out into more European, Indian, and other cuisines.

But for the size of the city, the quality of sushi, thai (and close by) foods cannot be beat.

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Canned tuna creation

My favorite is to doctor is up with cilantro, rock salt, green chillies, and dijon (sometimes skip this). This makes a normal tuna sandwich much more palatable :)

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The Best Bowl of Noodles in the World

LOL. When I first saw the title, I thought there was a chance that Wagamama may be on this list....

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From Serious Eats

Photo of the Day: Rice Field

Great pic. Rice is a mystery to me. I have been a lifelong life-eater (typical for South Indians) but two things I can never find the answer to.

First, rice always tends to bloat me and certain types of rice are almost like sleeping pills. I have to sleep right after consuming it.

Second, cooking it has never been easy. I finally settled on a pressure cooker method that works, but this is after many many many false starts.

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Teriyaki: Seattle's Signature Dish

I'm not sold on the article. I can see how/why there were places in Seattle in the early 1900s, but the later post 1980s growth is not really notable - if anything I would chalk it up to suburban expansion.

As far as great food in Seattle traditionally I can think of two: sushi and thai. Now it's branching out into more European, Indian, and other cuisines.

But for the size of the city, the quality of sushi, thai (and close by) foods cannot be beat.

From Talk

Canned tuna creation

My favorite is to doctor is up with cilantro, rock salt, green chillies, and dijon (sometimes skip this). This makes a normal tuna sandwich much more palatable :)

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The Best Bowl of Noodles in the World

LOL. When I first saw the title, I thought there was a chance that Wagamama may be on this list....

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Don't Miss Food between SF and Seattle?

Quilcene is a great spot with cheap food - I recall eating some crab and oysters at this roadside shack that were marvelous. I'm not sure if it's in between SF and Seattle though....

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Imports and Food Safety

I happened to see somewhere - and this is slightly off topic - that someone proposed legislation that allows USDA regulations to preempt state and local with respect to engineered food. There's some concern (not sure whether it's founded) as to whether this will extend to other regulated products.

link here.

Take with a grain of salt, obviously.

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