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Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: La Quercia's Cured Meat Experience

Strips of it on top of an open-faced grilled cheese sandwich so that the fat melts a little. Oh and two fresh figs on the side. Mmm.

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13 Cheeses Everyone Should Know

Surprised that no one's mentioned it yet: ASIAGO!! Deliciousness! Also, please add my name to the team havarti and team brie lists.

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The Nasty Bits: Pickled Feet

mmm I love this! We're from Jiangsu province, and My parents do the pickled pork stomach thing all the time.

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The Best Wine Books for Beginners

A great topic. This is like the article that I've always wanted to read as a wine beginner.

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Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: La Quercia's Cured Meat Experience

Strips of it on top of an open-faced grilled cheese sandwich so that the fat melts a little. Oh and two fresh figs on the side. Mmm.

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13 Cheeses Everyone Should Know

Surprised that no one's mentioned it yet: ASIAGO!! Deliciousness! Also, please add my name to the team havarti and team brie lists.

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The Nasty Bits: Pickled Feet

mmm I love this! We're from Jiangsu province, and My parents do the pickled pork stomach thing all the time.

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The Best Wine Books for Beginners

A great topic. This is like the article that I've always wanted to read as a wine beginner.

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Gluten-Free Tuesday: One Bowl Chocolate Cake

hi Elizabeth,

Would it be possible to make this without the xantham gum? I live in China and I don't think I've ever seen it in the supermarket.

Thanks!

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Snapshots from Paris: Lobster Sandwiches and Goose Fat Fries at Spring

what's even funnier is that a few months ago you were describing her stuff as "vivid" and "awesome". Plus "she's hot", no? Funny how opinions change so quickly. Get rejected?

Personally I loved hearing about this meal and I'll definitely dig it up the next time I head to Paris.

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Not Technically Food Books, But Books with Good Food Passages

The Box Car children! I read the entire series when I was a kid and only recently admitted to myself that didn't care about the storyline. It was all about getting through the dry plot to the gratuitous food passages (this made them even better). There were some pretty good ones. Like the time they scavenged for food and made hobo stew while they were homeless kids in the boxcar (oh yes I still remember) or that time they saved this pizza parlor that made a secret, homemade pizza sauce from being sabotaged.

Sweet Valley had some decent food passages as well--well, not as much. There was a book about how Jessica the ditzy one made delicious purple cookies on accident and had to recreate the recipe for a TV show. I think I was born obsessed with food.

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Impromptu Taste Test: The Cult of Yakult

...and now years later I can drink an entire pack a day :)

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Impromptu Taste Test: The Cult of Yakult

mmm...love yakult. I remember the first time my mum gave it to me. It was in Shanghai, and we were at a bus stop --I was so entranced by its cute packaging and my first sip that I almost forgot to get on the bus after her!

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What Fictional Foods Do You Wish Were Real?

really? I can't believe nobody's mentioned turkish delight from the lion, the witch and the wardrobe. none of that processed turkish delight that you get for $5 at Christmas, but the kind that was so good it made edward turn evil! Also, the green soup from Are you Afraid of the Dark--it was so delicious that people got addicted (it was made of the souls of people).

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My McDonald's Shamrock Shake Journey: An Emotional Roller Coaster

Hey!! stop hating!! Shamrock shakes are awesome--I make it a point to get them when MickeyDs and once did "shamrock hopping" on a drive back from Las Vegas to California (yes, I'm a pig, I had like 3 as did everyone else in my car). I miss them-they're actually pretty good. why don't you try making your own version with mint and vanilla ice cream? Or you can use mint chocolate chip ice cream. Okay, so not exactly the same, but will be yummy all the same and a fitting end to your search :) (then post the recipe)

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Snapshots from Vietnam: Chillin' in Saigon

great read! My hometown has a big viet population and I always see these colorful desserts behind the counters. Good to know what goes into them.

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Mochi + Waffle = The Moffle

so is this like those egg waffles at hong kong dessert places?! yum.

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Best Fro-Yo Shops in SoCali

uh...SoCali?

sorry to be a butt, but that sounds really awkward. Is that what people in DC call us XD?

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For Convenient Chocolate Shavings, Try Chocolate Pencils

@narinda: are you the narinda I think you are? XD This is Joanne. Hi. Chocolate is so powerful.

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Who partakes in a little fast food action?

what??! nobody's mentioned el pollo loco - the dashing, unloved brother of KFC?

el pollo loco's $.99 piece chicken thigh/wing/drumstricks (grilled with lime and all sorts of tasty spices) with complimentary tortillas and suspiciously surgeon uniform colored guacamole, finish off with $.99 churros is the cure to all ailments. There is absolutely nothing better than el pollo loco reheated at 3 am. Or for amazing finals week soup, college style, chicken soup - toss into some boiling water with tomatoes, lots of chilies and a few sprigs of fresh mint or lemongrass and cook for 20 minutes. So so so good.

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How do you doctor up baked beans?

My extremely not fancy recipe is a can of baked beans, something green (not fuzzy) from the fridge, lots of tabasco sauce topped with cheddar cheese. Yumyum.

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10 Crazy Asian Pizzas

hey robyn, don't feel bad!!! I HEART YOUR POSTS AND YOUR BLOG!!!These crusts caused a feeling of sick to rush to my brains (this is further emphasized by the fact that I'm currently in Shanghai and so I actually see these kind of things while walking around). The head-on tail-on shrimp one is kinda the scariest to me, because I can imagine being momentarily awestruck by the cheese not realizing that the shrimp are dangerously sharp and then biting into it leading to all sorts of mouth bleedingness. yup.

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'F*** Grapefruit'

I love how grapefruit looks like a moon crater.

I really want to make one of these, with dragon fruit being completely neutral on the taste scale, such it tastes like a mouthful of nothing :D

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Website: http://noooone.

Location: Shanghai, China. formerly in the OC

About: I like food. A lot.

Favorite foods: sushi, korean barbecue, SAUCE, cream-based things with sugar, obscure asian foods, xiao long bao, noooooodles, avocado, hot pot, escargot, tarte tatin, creme brulee, soup, tortas, triple cream brie cheese, yumyumyumms.

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