While Manhattan’s eastside has long held the hegemony on South Asian Cuisine–with clusters of restaurants around Murray Hill and further south in the Village’s well-known East 6th Street–I stumbled across a lone outpost of Sri Lankan food all the way on West 28th Street (between 7th & 8th Aves.) Th
As we approach the dog days of Summer, when nobody feels like cooking, this quick, simple dish is the perfect antidote. All it requires is a quick searing of the meat, which inturn requires a very hot pan (which I did not have this time around). It’s amazing what one ...
Chef Akira Back and yours truly at the Taste of Korea dinner In the weeks leading up to the Fancy Food Show, I get a flood of emails from various PR firms asking me to come and check out their clients’ booths at the show. If the product seems interesting, of course, ...
The nation’s capital played host to this year’s National Association for the Specialty Food Trade Summer Fancy Food Show showcasing a staggering 180,000 new products, which help account for the $60 billion in sales this industry pulls in annually. Wrapping your head (or in this case your mouth) around
