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Concubine’s Chicken Recipe
Named after a famous concubine from the Tang dynasty known for her hedonism (particularly when it came to food), this sweet, sour, and slightly spicy dish is sure to satisfy every one of your cravings.
Avakkai Pickle (Mango Pickle) Recipe
Sweet-spicy pickled green mangoes are the perfect accompaniment to everything from rice and dal to grilled cheese.
Emmenthaler Is the 'Everybody Loves Raymond' of Cheeses
Emmenthaler is the Everybody Loves Raymond of all cheeses: it's God-awful, and yet people seem to really like it. Holes are normally considered a sign of a defect in the cheese-making process, but with this stuff, it's the opposite.
Chili-Citrus Deep-Fried Soft Shell Crabs Recipe
When soft shell crab is in season, get out the fryer.
We Flavor-Tripped Thanksgiving So You Don't Have To
There's nothing worse than eating food with as much zest as wet cardboard, so we decided to eat miracle berries—which make naturally sour things taste sweet—when we visited dear old Mom and Dad for Thanksgiving, because their bland cooking sucks hard.
Faking Taste With Electrical Shocks to the Tongue Is Our Dystopian Food Future
Taste+ promises to make something like Soylent as appetizing as foie gras without changing its nutritional content in the slightest.
Excessive Candy Consumption Is Giving Children Burns and Seizures
Turns out your mom was right: too much candy is bad for you. But she didn't say that licorice and sour suckers would cause bloody tongue blisters and seizures.
When Eating Camel Balls, It's All About the Liquid Center
In this installment of Seriously, Though, Who Is This?, our protagonist approaches chefs with a unique take on the culinary appeal of camel balls.
This Wine Bar Is a Thai Restaurant in Disguise
Wine is an unlikely powerful element of Kris Yenbamroong’s restaurant Night + Market Song, the place that brings authentic, rarified Thai street food traditions to LA. Wine has no place in those traditions, and in Thai food, generally, it has hardly...
Sniff at Your Own Risk: Beers That Reek
Some craft brews treat you kindly, like a overeager gentleman on a first date. But other beers put some stank on the nose and throw your senses into an orgy of odors. These are just some those beers, and they smell to high heaven.
Taleggio Is the Lindsay Lohan of All Cheeses
Do you remember the first time you went down on a fine young thing? There was something sweet and yeasty, yet slightly sour, with just a tang of manure? You're thinking of Taleggio. This stuff has made more history than LiLo by the time she turned...
How-To: Make Prison Style Sweet and Sour Pork With Andy Roy
If you weren't locked up in Pelican Bay State Prison in the early 2000s, then today is the day you are going to learn how to make a prison-style sweet and sour pork. And we've got just the man to give you a tutorial: Andy Roy.