I didn’t really profit in a monetary sense (though I did in a delicious sense), but who says titles need to make sense? I certainly don’t. Is there a more perfect food? I think probably not. It has all of the delicious things: potatoes, eggs, cheese, and you can eat it all right when you […]
Author Archives: Jade
Dumpling some dumplings
There’s nothing like sort of butchering the recipe for elaborately made traditional foods to express my complicated relationship with my ethnicity! JK, I just really like dumplings. Last weekend, I enslaved a number of my friends to fold dumplings for an hour. (I made a huge bowl of filling and bought 252 dumpling skins beforehand.) […]
Marcella Hazan’s Broccoli and Pasta Soup
I almost didn’t post this because my photos of it are so gnarly-looking, but then I had a great revelation: fuck it. I can eat gray soup and talk about it on the Internet if I want to. This soup is like 3,000 times fussier than I usually prefer, by which I mean, you can’t […]
The people demand more cute.
You guys. Crepes with ice cream. It doesn’t get better than that, does it? Thin pancakes, sweet toppings… Today, I learned that it does. Behold, the cutest confection I’ve ever compulsively crammed into my mouth. This is a “happy face crepe” from Belly Good Cafe & Crepes (sounds vaguely racist, but I swear that’s the official […]
Long weekends are for gluttony
What better way to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday than to spend the entire day noshing on the food of my people? Such is my devotion to gluttony that I sat on a train for an hour to meet a friend at a Chinese food mecca. We joined a small mob outside of a […]