Monthly Archives: January 2011

Link Love

A number of articles have come out of late that I just couldn’t resist posting about. Hope you enjoy them as much as I did! I was excited last week to see Tim Carman, who recently moved from the Washington City Paper to replace Jane Black in the Washington Post food section, write about modern twists on pho in the DC area. Included in the piece is Ba Bay, a French-influenced Vietnamese restaurant that recently …

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beijing, part 2: regional and ethnic foods

beijing, part 2: regional and ethnic foods

I hadn’t quite realized until my recent trip to China just how little I know about Chinese food. Most of the Chinese food I grew up with was Cantonese, which I have to say is not too shabby of a cuisine to be born into. But it also led me to believe that a meal is not complete without rice, that Chinese people don’t eat raw vegetables, and — even more appalling — that Chinese …

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