The spread of British food

Here are some products I bought in Hawaii’s Chinatown some years ago (and wrote about in The Food of Paradise. Left to right back row: Quaker Oats (in a can…

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How to Create a Regional Cuisine: The Luau and French Regional Cuisine

You’ve probably seen some of the few photos that have filtered out of the private annual congressional White House picnic that took place last Thursday. Barack Obama invited Alan Wong…

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The Island Plate

It’s cookbook award time. And the number of stunning cookbooks that are out there is overwhelming: beautifully written, well-tested recipes, and glorious photography. Yet there are so many lovely books…

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