- Speculoos spread
- herbs de provence
- figue violette jam
- rillette de canard
- salted butter caramels
- lentils de Puy
Am I forgetting anything?
May 2011
Monthly Archive
May 22, 2011
Paris shopping list
Posted by Cynthia under Paris, travel | Tags: food, groceries, Paris, shopping |[3] Comments
May 10, 2011
I miss Paris…
Posted by Cynthia under cooking, France, London, Paris | Tags: farmers market, food shopping, salad |[4] Comments
It’s salad season and I seem to be missing out. While I think California wins when it comes to making delicious, healthy and satisfying salads, my favorite thing in Paris was going to my weekly neighborhood farmers market. I looked forward to walking down to the market on Sundays and strolling up and down the different stalls.
May 2, 2011
Springtime
Posted by Cynthia under drinking, eating, London | Tags: London, Pimm's, spring |[2] Comments
May 1, 2011
Bespoke* noodles
Posted by Cynthia under Cantonese, cooking, eating, London | Tags: diet, food allergies, handmade noodles |[4] Comments
One time, when my mom asked what I wanted for dinner and I said “noodles.”
“We’re Cantonese. We eat rice for dinner.”
My mom would have been happy to have had pizza or meatloaf for dinner, but noodles for dinner? Oh no, that’s a line she will not cross. So I threw me in a temper tantrum (and this was me as an adult, visiting my parents only a few years ago).
Food laws feel like the most oppressive thing to me — I don’t care about cultural rules or allergies, my values and auto-immune response will not win over my right to eat tasty things.
So even though my people are traditionally rice farmers, one morning I committed the ultimate betrayal — I made my own noodles.
