This is a recipe I learned from my friend and mentor Andrew Hsieh. We made it together once at my house, and I’ve tried it a couple of times since,…

I first came into contact with Korean cooking in grad school, in Columbus, Ohio in the late 1980s. I worked at an Asian market on Sundays, under the table, thanks to…

In my last post, I mentioned making a sauce for chicken wings. I use this one for special occasions, and especially in the winter, when oranges are in season. I…

With the harvest I have this year (see Too Many Tomatoes), I’ve had to look for various ways to process and preserve the massive quantities of my tomatoes this year.…

Every summer, there are a couple of things that grow incredibly well, and produce like crazy. Early in the summer came the flood of beans; now I’m dealing with almost…

I’ve been shopping at La Tapatia in Des Moines for years, and almost every time I go there, I walk by the butcher counter, which runs almost the whole length of the…