The thing about being an adventurous cook is that sometimes you miss the mark. You read a recipe and it sounds okay, and you trust it because cookbooks have a certain amount of credibility to them. I should know better, after the *** efffing ***** book that I helped out as a test chef on: …
You’re walking down Kalakaua Avenue in Waikiki or through Kona Village or Lahaina on a balmy evening. It’s your first or second day in the islands and you’re thinking, yeah, okay, I would like to see a luau. Or yeah, I would like to go on one of those obnoxious polluting ATV tours. (A-hem.) Or …
Technique notes: When your non-American companion says, “Oh.My.God.” pull over and dig around behind your seat for the camera. Don’t bother checking the camera settings. Instead, just shoot the photo. When the shutter refuses to close, say,”Oh, that’s not going to work!” and then wave the camera around for a little bit until the shutter …
Around 8pm on our last night in Waikiki, we tried to return our rental car, but the place we needed to go was on fire. The streets were packed with diverted traffic, impatient police officers, fire trucks, and slews of slack-jawed tourists. There were lights and water and sirens everywhere as fire trucks attempted to …
My head still thinks we’re in Hawaii even while my heart is turning to the next adventure, Vietnam. My body, though, knows the hard cold facts: We’re in torrential rainy Seattle. Our first day back we did two things: Went to Trader Joe’s to get some groceries and stopped for pho, the soup that soothes …
Last week vs. this week.