Category Archives: Ethnic Cuisine

Staple Meal: Stir-Fry

By Emilia | Published: May 9, 2012

Staple meal from Twenty, beef and pepper stir-fry. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman.

When your computer crashes, you find out just how precarious your life is without technology. None of yesterday's work was backed up, so that's what's going on here! Today will be spent trying to restore what I can. Life will be normal again, I suppose, soon but not now. Thank goodness for good partners (viz Donna), wonderful assistants (thank you, Emilia!), and easy staple meals that you can count on, meals that are a breeze to prepare and a comfort to eat at the end of a frustrating day.
 
The following is a weekly staple dinner in the Ruhlman household, a simple beef stir-fry, published in Ruhlman's Twenty, which happily just won both a James Beard award and an IACP ...

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Cinco De Mayo—Should It Be “Celebrated”

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: May 7, 2012

Chef Shaw Lash, below XOCO restaurant in Chicago

Having drinks last month with Shaw Lash, a Chicago chef, after a steller meal at Frontera Grill (Shaw works for executive chef Rick Bayless, renowned Mexican cuisine authority), and the subject of Cinco de Mayo came up. Shaw, who had a few month earlier showed me how they make their own chocolate, above, shook her head and said, "Don't get me started." But she started anyway. I said, "Want to write a guest post for my site?"

Just after Shaw sent me her post below this advert dropped into my mailbox. It seemed appropriate to lead with here. I'm actually a fan of Fox and Hound, where we play pool weekly.

By Shaw Lash I grew ...

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Foie Gras Wars Back On

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: April 30, 2012

Foie Gras au Torchon/photos by Donna Turner Ruhlman

I spotted a tiny news item in this morning's Plain Dealer, culled from The San Francisco Chronicle reports, and was thrilled to see people like Thomas Keller, Michael Chiarello, Tyler Florence, and scores of other chefs beginning to protest California’s hypocritical and uninformed ban on foie gras that goes into effect this summer. (Watch news story video from KCRA.) While likely begun as self-aggrandizing soap-boxing by former state Senator John Burton in 2004 (read his LA Times op-ed reasoning), as it was done by Chicago City Council Alderman Joe Moore in 2007, embarrassing the city, which repealed the law in 2008, we’re hoping that California legislators evaluate their actual motives for the ban. If they truly care about the humane treatment of the animals we ...

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Great Lake Lamprey Pie

By Emilia | Published: April 30, 2012

The Queen of England for her Diamond Jubilee will have a traditional lamprey pie, via Detroit Free Press.

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Chicken Curry: Teach Kids To Cook

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: April 23, 2012

Chicken Curry by James/Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman

There are lots of ways to change the food system, and you and I aren't likely to do it. It's going to be our kids who do it. Two weeks ago I threw together a quick chicken curry and both the kids liked it, so I asked, "Is this a keeper?" and they nodded, chewing hungrily. So, last week, when 12-year-old James got home from school, I said, "We're having chicken curry tonight." He said, "Yes." I said, "You're going to make it." He didn't respond. "I'll do all the prep and you're going to make it." He said, "OK." An hour before I wanted dinner on the table, I diced an onion. I've already taught him how to hold a knife and halve, slice, or dice an onion; tonight I wanted him to see how ...

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