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no. 78: because i need a duck

let them eat cake • 179 implied HN points • 21 Dec 23
🍲 Food & Drink Ingredients
  1. The dish _lou arh_ is a traditional braised duck dish in Singapore associated with Teochew cooking.
  2. The process of cooking _lou arh_ is heavily influenced by family traditions and personal adaptations over time.
  3. Creating a recipe for _lou arh_ is a personal journey that involves memories and experiences, rather than just following a set of instructions.

no. 70: resplendent tails

let them eat cake • 259 implied HN points • 03 Jun 23
🍲 Food & Drink Ingredients
  1. Enjoying diverse cuisines in different parts of the world can offer insights into the unique cultural and historical influences on food preparation and presentation.
  2. Restaurants with vastly different culinary traditions may still share similar formal dining practices, suggesting a universal appreciation for elegance in food service.
  3. Exploring local eateries in small villages can provide a deep connection to the authentic flavors, culinary practices, and regional charm of a place.

🔝 Bangkok's Top Dining Destinations on Asia's Best Restaurants 1-50 List!

Digest // Storefronts of Bangkok • 79 implied HN points • 02 Apr 24
🍲 Food & Drink Ingredients
  1. Discover top dining destinations in Bangkok listed on Asia's Best Restaurants 1-50 with unique culinary experiences and exquisite flavors.
  2. Restaurants in Bangkok like Baan Tepa and Samrub Samrub Thai prioritize local sourcing, mindful utilization of ingredients, and offer dynamic dining experiences.
  3. Thai-Chinese fine dining establishments like Potong showcase traditional and innovative flavors, while restaurants such as Le Du offer a creative spin on Thai cuisine with seasonal menus.

Buon Anno!

Greed • 137 implied HN points • 24 Jan 24
🍲 Food & Drink Ingredients
  1. Italian tradition of saying 'Buon Anno' can lead to interesting culinary experiences like the Florentine steak ​
  2. Personal rituals can offer a meaningful way to mark important life events like giving up drinking ​
  3. Seasonal, local food not only tastes better but also encourages more creative cooking by working with what's available ​
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The Cooking Time Edition

Why is this interesting? • 784 implied HN points • 07 Feb 24
🍲 Food & Drink Ingredients
  1. Understanding time as an ingredient in cooking is crucial for creating excellent dishes.
  2. Different cooking time ranges affect flavor profiles and textures; shorter times for quick sauces and longer times for richer stocks.
  3. Extended cooking times, like in master stocks, can create deep complexity, history, and community in dishes.

no. 79: electric immigration

let them eat cake • 99 implied HN points • 24 Jan 24
🍲 Food & Drink Ingredients
  1. Learning new skills can invigorate and add excitement to life, even after major changes like closing a restaurant.
  2. Investigating the origins and processes behind everyday items, like edible fats, can provide insight into larger societal trends.
  3. Exploring diverse dining options in strip malls while charging an electric vehicle can lead to unexpected cultural experiences and connections to immigrant communities.

To Understand the Manhattan, Make a Manhattan Flight

Cocktails With Suderman • 259 implied HN points • 10 Mar 23
🍲 Food & Drink Ingredients
  1. To understand cocktails better, make different variations of the same drink and taste them in sequence.
  2. Sharing cocktails with friends enhances the tasting experience by providing diverse opinions and sensory feedback.
  3. Tasting cocktails is different from drinking them, as it involves analyzing and appreciating subtle variations in flavors and ingredients.

Peanut Butter

The Heart Attack Diet • 59 implied HN points • 21 Nov 23
🍲 Food & Drink Ingredients
  1. During the pandemic, the author's diet change to less processed food led to stable weight and good health, but going back to old eating habits resulted in weight gain and fatigue.
  2. Giving up polyunsaturated fats improved the author's overall well-being, but the high fat and protein content in peanut butter may have contributed to weight issues.
  3. The author found Whole Earth Peanut Butter to be a staple during the pandemic stockpiling, but later discovered its high fat and protein content could have been counterproductive to their health goals.

My New Favorite Way to Eat Organ Meats

Harnessing the Power of Nutrients • 99 implied HN points • 18 Feb 23
🍲 Food & Drink Ingredients
  1. Incorporate organ meats into your diet by mixing them into ground beef and seasoning heavily with taco seasoning for a flavorful taco meat that masks the taste of organs.
  2. Using a ground meat blend where organs are a portion of the mix can help make the overall flavor more enjoyable compared to using fresh organ meats.
  3. Consider exploring supplements containing a blend of organ meats if you still struggle to eat organs, and look for sustainable, high-quality meat options when purchasing.

Story Five

Stories From The Rail • 299 implied HN points • 28 Nov 21
🍲 Food & Drink Ingredients
  1. Cooking requires a mix of art and science, knowing various techniques and ingredients.
  2. Being able to cook intuitively involves creativity and adaptability, turning mishaps into unique dishes.
  3. Preparing and sharing a meal involves hard work, but the joy and connection it brings can be a powerful balm for grief and pain.

Process notes: iso e super

Sasha's 'Newsletter' • 152 implied HN points • 14 Mar 24
🎨 Art & Illustration Ingredients
  1. Iso-E Super is a popular ingredient in perfumery that is derived from myrcene and has a cedar-like scent.
  2. This fragrance ingredient undergoes complex chemical processes to enhance its aroma.
  3. Sasha Chapin discusses the intricate construction of Iso-E Super in perfumes in their paid post.

La Dolce Vita

Seeking Solutions • 39 implied HN points • 26 Apr 23
🍲 Food & Drink Ingredients
  1. Appreciation for basic ingredients is a key to a good life in Italy
  2. Italy has figured out the importance of portion sizes for food and alcohol
  3. Italians value and express love for beauty in everyday objects

Chloe-Rose Crabtree's Blackberry and Kiwi Lattice Pie

Vittles • 53 implied HN points • 18 Dec 24
🍲 Food & Drink Ingredients
  1. This pie recipe combines blackberries and kiwi, perfect for adding brightness during winter. It's a delicious way to enjoy seasonal fruits.
  2. You can choose different decorative toppings for the pie, like a lattice crust or sugar on top. Even simple designs can look lovely and impressive.
  3. Making a successful pastry requires keeping ingredients at the right temperature and letting the dough rest. This helps create a flaky and tasty crust.

Potato Leek Soup

Mister Branzino's Newsletter • 19 implied HN points • 02 Jan 24
🍲 Food & Drink Ingredients
  1. The recipe shared in the post is for a super simple yet fancy Potato Leek Soup, also known as Vichyssoise.
  2. The ingredients required for the soup include chicken or veggie stock, leeks, onion, potato, chives, Half-and-Half, butter, and olive oil.
  3. For equipment, you'll need two pots, a blender, cutting board, knife, and spatula or wooden spoon to prepare this delicious soup.

Home in a Red Tiffin Lunchbox

Vittles • 112 implied HN points • 07 Feb 24
🍲 Food & Drink Ingredients
  1. The author finds comfort and connection through cooking and packing school lunches for her son in a new home.
  2. Recipes for gochujang egg fried rice, crispy spiced tofu, and cardamom-scented Paanakam are shared.
  3. The act of cooking and sharing food serves as a way to create familiarity and connection in a new environment.

meaning silk, or rags

let them eat cake • 379 implied HN points • 02 Aug 19
🍲 Food & Drink Ingredients
  1. Chiffon cake was a new and innovative creation in the 20th century, incorporating baking powder and vegetable oil unlike traditional foam cakes.
  2. Pandan chiffon cakes are popular in a certain age group in Singapore for being less sweet and light due to their airy texture.
  3. Neighborhood bakeries selling pandan chiffon often maintain a traditional, artisanal approach, using industrial mix but employing handcrafting techniques.

Archana Pidathala’s Buckwheat Breakfast Set

Vittles • 77 implied HN points • 13 Mar 24
🍲 Food & Drink Ingredients
  1. Archana Pidathala's buckwheat breakfast set includes panjiri and spiced chai cake, offering nourishment and indulgence in the form of a versatile, fragrant dish.
  2. Food can be a way to connect and care for others, as seen through the author's experience of creating dishes inspired by loved ones.
  3. Buckwheat is a versatile ingredient for creating gluten-free recipes like panjiri, providing a unique, earthy flavor profile that complements other ingredients.

Maraschino Cherries Are a Lie

The Heart Attack Diet • 19 implied HN points • 18 Oct 23
🍲 Food & Drink Ingredients
  1. Maraschino cherries labeled as such may actually be cocktail cherries flavored with chemicals and heavy in sulphites, potentially causing adverse reactions for those with allergies or intolerances.
  2. Fake maraschino cherries contain sulfur dioxide, chemical dyes, and other additives, making them significantly different from genuine maraschino cherries preserved in sugar syrup.
  3. Authentic maraschino cherries preserved in sugar syrup are recommended as a healthier alternative to the chemically treated cocktail cherries, despite being a bit pricier.

On the Quality of Things

NonTrivial • 19 implied HN points • 28 Mar 23
🍲 Food & Drink Ingredients
  1. Quality is important in both consumption and creation, but assessing quality in consumed items can be challenging as it is determined upfront.
  2. Defining quality involves considering an object's ability to solve the problem it was created for, with high quality objects more likely to maintain their category membership over time.
  3. Assessing quality in objects involves looking at their ingredients or components, with fewer ingredients often indicating higher quality, but also considering the heterogeneity of the ingredients in the context of the problem being solved.

An Ode to Beer

Polymathic Being • 65 implied HN points • 10 Dec 23
🍲 Food & Drink Ingredients
  1. Beer has a long and significant history, dating back thousands of years before the invention of writing.
  2. Modern beer only consists of four main ingredients: malted barley, water, hops, and yeast, which play a critical role in creating diverse beer varieties.
  3. The regional variations in beer styles are influenced by factors like water pH, malt selection, hops, and yeast strains, showcasing the scientific complexity behind brewing.

Bigger than anyone better

let them eat cake • 119 implied HN points • 24 Apr 19
🍲 Food & Drink Ingredients
  1. The Balthazar bakery in New Jersey has grown significantly over the years, becoming one of the largest artisanal bakeries in New York, supplying many restaurants and cafes.
  2. Even at a large scale, the bakery faces limitations in sourcing flours and ingredients, having to rely on a few main suppliers for consistency and reliability.
  3. The bakery has seen a shift towards viennoiserie products due to increased demand for carbs at breakfast, emphasizing the importance of handwork over complete automation.

Make it hot

let them eat cake • 99 implied HN points • 06 Mar 19
🍲 Food & Drink Ingredients
  1. Hot sauces like Tabasco have interesting cultural and historical backgrounds, often reflecting imperialism and globalization.
  2. Chili sauces in Southeast Asia serve as both condiments and staples, providing pleasure and balance through complex flavors.
  3. Differentiating between cultures that eat chilies versus those that eat hot sauce reveals diverse approaches to spiciness and flavors.

The Cocktail Revolution

The Works in Progress Newsletter • 12 implied HN points • 08 Dec 23
🍲 Food & Drink Ingredients
  1. Bars have seen significant improvement in the quality and creativity of craft cocktails since the turn of the century due to an obsession with ingredient quality and variety.
  2. The cocktail renaissance involves rediscovering and revitalizing novel ingredients, like crème de violette, through bartender demand and supply from importers.
  3. Innovations in cocktail construction include the reintroduction of fresh juice, the return of ingredients like rye whiskey, and the creation of novel ingredients like Super Juice.

#22: The poultry of uncertainty

The Uncertainty Mindset (soon to become tbd) • 39 implied HN points • 01 Apr 20
🍲 Food & Drink Ingredients
  1. It's hard to cook something well if you don't know what it is. Understanding the properties of your ingredients helps you make better food.
  2. Making great pizza requires a lot of knowledge about ingredients and techniques. The best pizzas come from understanding how to use different flours, doughs, and toppings properly.
  3. Innovation in cooking, like discovering new ways to use ingredients, can lead to exciting new dishes. The same idea applies to many other areas, such as technology and management.

Elevated Tuna Pasta

Cooking Without Borders • 0 implied HN points • 29 Jan 24
🍲 Food & Drink Ingredients
  1. Elevated tuna pasta can be taken to different levels by adding ingredients like olives for a unique flavor profile
  2. Simple tricks like salting pasta water generously and reserving pasta water can elevate any pasta dish
  3. Transforming classic recipes like tuna pasta by experimenting with new ingredients can result in a delicious and creamy dish

Pasta Primavera

Mister Branzino's Newsletter • 0 implied HN points • 13 May 23
🍲 Food & Drink Ingredients
  1. The Pasta Primavera recipe includes a variety of ingredients like asparagus, peas, pine nuts, and feta cheese.
  2. The cooking directions emphasize starting with boiling water, making the green yogurt sauce, and mixing all ingredients thoroughly at the end.
  3. To enhance the taste, consider adding spices like paprika or chili flakes when toasting pine nuts.

Lebanese Potato Salad

Mister Branzino's Newsletter • 0 implied HN points • 15 Dec 23
🍲 Food & Drink Ingredients
  1. This Lebanese Potato Salad recipe eliminates the need for mayo by using fresh ingredients like lemon juice, olive oil, and herbs for flavor.
  2. The recipe includes simple steps like boiling the potatoes, adding frozen peas at the end, and combining all ingredients for a refreshing salad.
  3. The salad pairs well with dishes like burgers, BBQ ribs, or steak, making it a versatile and delicious side dish.

Easy Chicken Tacos with Creamy Jalapeño Salsa

Mister Branzino's Newsletter • 0 implied HN points • 08 Jan 24
🍲 Food & Drink Ingredients
  1. The recipe shares how to make Easy Chicken Tacos with Creamy Jalapeño Salsa using simple ingredients like chicken thighs, jalapeños, and cilantro.
  2. The recipe provides step-by-step directions on how to cook the chicken, make the creamy jalapeño salsa, and assemble the tacos with additional ingredients like pico de gallo and avocado salad (guacamole).
  3. The post includes a link for paid subscribers to access additional content and recipes from Mister Branzino on Substack.

Hamburger

Mister Branzino's Newsletter • 0 implied HN points • 15 Dec 23
🍲 Food & Drink Ingredients
  1. Excellence in cooking often starts with mastering the basics, like making a great hamburger.
  2. This classic burger recipe includes simple steps like preparing patties and assembling with your favorite ingredients.
  3. You can customize your burger by trying different variations, like adding special sauce, caramelized onions, or unique bun choices.

On Shrimp Paste

The Epestle • 0 implied HN points • 06 Feb 24
🍲 Food & Drink Ingredients
  1. Shrimp paste used to offend foreign visitors in the past.
  2. Durian is a commonly consumed divisive food in Thai culture.
  3. Shrimp paste has a history of causing strong reactions from those outside the culture.