Melissa De Silva has a cool video on CNA tracing her Kristang (Portuguese / Malaccan Eurasian) roots through food.

‘Eurasian’ in a Malaysian and Singaporean context is approximately similar to the idea of say, ‘Anglo-Indian’: not just a recent generational mix but centuries of it, with their own distinct cultures and languages and food

youtu.be/hd7d12jPpsk

#Food #TootSea #Singapore #Malaysia

Curry Devil: Tracing My Eurasian Heritage Across Asia With Our Most Iconic Dish | My Debal Diaries

Singaporean author Melissa De Silva goes to Malacca and Goa, where her ancestors hail from, to discover more about the roots of Eurasian culture and identity...

^YouTube

Just three plant species, wheat, maize and rice, account for 60% of all food eaten globally. Crop science expert, Prof Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi, argues that many of Africa’s 30,000 edible plants must be revived.
#Food #Farming #Agriculture #Crops #Africa #Wheat #Rice #Maize #PlantScience

60% of Africa's food is based on wheat, rice and maize – the continent's crop treasure trove is being neglected
theconversation.com/60-of-afri…

60% of Africa's food is based on wheat, rice and maize – the continent's crop treasure trove is being neglected

Just three plant species – wheat, maize and rice – account for 60% of all food eaten globally. A crop science expert argues that many of Africa’s 30,000 edible plants must be revived.

^{The Conversation}

One of the phrases that’s been popular in China this year according to this article: sixthtone.com/news/1014370

For more context, people in China have been assembling plain white bread sandwiches to try to understand how we live in this part of the world, and they are posting through it (the idea of eating anything cold or raw, especially a vegetable, is seen as especially disgusting in the Chinese world, with some exceptions)

theguardian.com/food/2023/jun/…

#Food #China #Language #Chinese #Mandarin

We finally tried out Memorie. It’s rather pricey but surpassed our expectations by a lot! What we ordered: devil’s curry, mushroom omelette and fern fiddleheads with sambal. The chain specializes in Kristang/Serani cuisine (Kristang people are eurasians in Malaysia who descended from interracial marriage between Portuguese colonizers and maritime Southeast Asian locals).

#MakanApaToday #MalaysianFood #food

Excellent story covering some of the food politics in Indian universities theswaddle.com/hungry-for-educ…

(Vegetarian fascists are trying to make it hard for other students to eat, again)

#Food #India

Hungry For Education

Why are the country’s “best” universities the most anxious about food?

^{www.theswaddle.com}

Good instant ramen rivals fancy ramen restaurants in the U.S.: it’s not rocket science, you can already buy the instant noodle version of top rated ramen restaurants in Tokyo!

Sun Noodles, which makes the noodles for most top U.S. ramen restaurants, has these excellent packets like this very good tsukemen I’m having: sayweee.com/en/product/Sun-Noo…

Learn to make chashu and a ramen egg and no more spending $30 at a not so good fancy restaurant (there aren’t many in SF that I rate highly)

#Food #Ramen

Sun Noodle Tsukemen Seafood Tonkotsu Dipping Ramen, Frozen (1 Serving) 243 g

Top choice for Asian groceries.

^{www.sayweee.com}

I like this recipe - a dal paste filling for cabbage rolls that are steamed, then sliced, then fried. This method of steaming then frying is very common in #IndianFood (particularly snacks), and also very delicious.

bawarchi.com/recipe/cabbage-pa…

#SabitaRadhakrishna in her book #Annapurni, has a similar recipe, but she makes a ground lentil mixture (chana dal, toor dal and urad dal), and mixes in cabbage, onions, chillies and coriander, After steaming, it is cut into squares and fried for snacks, or the unfried squares can be used in any vegetable curry.

#food #Vegetarian

One of my special dishes that I cook for friends, which is quite a spectacle, is my tea-smoked chicken (or duck. Or tofu).

It was one of my fave dishes to order in nice Chinese restaurants back in my part of the world, but the secret is I cook this so as to get rid of the tea I’ve ordered that I don’t love.

This recipe is pretty close to what I do. I also smoke in a wok, with spices:

redhousespice.com/chinese-smok…

I serve it with Singapore-style chicken rice.

#Food #Tea #Recipes

New street food in China: noodles topped with mashed potatoes, probably inspired by another Chongqing potato noodle dish

youtu.be/CjH0ZOpgy9o

#Food #ChineseFood

Spicy Noodles in Mashed Potatoes Sauce (New Street Food in China)

Mashed potato noodles, 土豆泥拌面!0:00 - Wait, what?1:16 - The Mashed Potatoes2:00 - The Youmian, Oil Noodles3:11 - Overview of other components3:58 - The Geng5:1...

^YouTube

Pork noodles with friends today, I'm very much into the bittergourd

#food #MakanApaToday

I've been browsing #MeenakshiAmmal's first book again tonight. It is an extended tutorial on Tamil food. You surely learn how to make sambar when you cook 10 different ones in a row, then kuzhambus, then Moar kuzhambus, then ..... and so it goes. I spent time cooking a couple of hundred recipes from this book and am not yet finished. I must get back to it.

Here you go: Pulse Balls Moar Kuzhambu. The balls are made with soaked and ground toor dal and spices, made into balls and steamed. Then simmered in the buttermilk spice stew.

#food #indianFood #vegetarian #EggFree

Chinese tea discourse in the west, without the food, is like meditation culture in the west: without the faith. I made a scallop chicken congee WITH pipa oolong tea in the broth. Topped it with Teochew (Chaozhou) olive vegetable preserves and, somehow, sour cream and onion dusted chicken chicharrones (that I also made).

#Tea #ChineseFood #Food #Cooking

Excited to order the ramen from this shop on Weee (they have a lot of external vendors from Japan, Korea and China now and you can buy specialized things from them.. like tea shops in Beijing, and like this Ramen Kingdom shop)

sayweee.com/mkpl/vendor/7540?l…

#Food #Ramen

My friend from Japan bought me a box of instant noodles created in collaboration with four famous ramen shops there. I picked ‘Hakodate shio’ as I have not found good shio ramen where I live. It was delicious.

Probably better than restaurant ramens in many cities. Many famous ramen chefs in Japan have branched out into offering their kits abroad, so I will be on a lookout for them.

#Food #Ramen

This is the best frozen har gow. It tastes better than many lower end takeout dimsum spots in San Francisco. Just steam or microwave it yourself at home.

I know this because I’ve eaten many bad frozen har gows before finding this one!

sayweee.com/en/product/Savory-…

#Food #Cooking #Chinese #Dimsum #BAE #BayAreaEats

Here’s my list of lazy food that tastes good (I cannot stand most American convenience foods)

Savory Express Shrimp Dumplings 20pcs Frozen 500 g

Top choice for Asian groceries.

^{www.sayweee.com}

Hoy les traigo una receta: pescado capeado estilo Baja. Sirve para taquitos o quesadillas.
Ingredientes:
Pescado fresco en tiras (de carne firme)
Harina de trigo
Huevo
Orégano seco
Ajo picado fino
Sal y pimienta
Cerveza (o agua mineral)

Procedimiento:
En un tazón combinar la harina con el orégano, el ajo, sal y pimienta y el huevo. Ir revolviendo la cerveza hasta que quede textura como harina de hotcakes.
Sumergir el pescado en esa mezcla y freír en bastante aceite.

#receta #comedodon #food

"A handful of companies own the #patents on virtually every #seed planted in the US. Now, a new crop of unowned seeds is bringing #biodiversity back to #farming."
worldsensorium.com/open-source…

#agriculture #food #monopoly #ossi (Open Source Seed Initiative)

FYI, I link to two earlier reports on this problem (2017 and 2019) in a tweet from 2020.
twitter.com/petersuber/status/…

“Open Source” Seeds Loosen Big Ag’s Grip on Farmers

Alexander Klepnev CC BY 4.0 “Open Source” Seeds Loosen Big Ag’s Grip on Farmers A handful of companies own the patents on virtually every seed planted in the US. Now, a new crop of unowned seeds is...

^{World Sensorium / Conservancy}

Pizza, I need not say anymore.

nytimes.com/2022/12/22/dining/…

#pizza #food

Savory Pie Recipes for the Holidays

^{Tejal Rao (The New York Times)}

Who’s Afraid of Gene-Edited Crops?

inkl.com/a/BaJMPLTlWbl

Anyone who understands how intellectual property law works and doesn’t want to see it applied to staple foods. That’s who.

#corporatocracy #ip #law #copyright #food

Who’s Afraid of Gene-Edited Crops?

A new U.K. bill is a chance at food security—if Britain can get past unfounded fears.

^inkl

One of my little morning joys: a little local Purple Cloud lavender honey in my porridge.

One of the tastiest honeys I’ve had and made right here in Kilkenny in Ireland.

#kilkenny #ireland #food #local