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Take a bite of bunny dumplings for the Year Of The Rabbit. Photo by A.S. Whitman | THE NIBBLE. One of our NIBBLE colleagues is currently vacationing in India. Passing through Delhi, he dined at an haute cuisine Chinese restaurant, The House of Ming. It features both Cantonese and Szechuan cuisine, but our intrepid reporter…
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January 18th is National Peking Duck Day. We’ll be running out to our favorite Chinese restaurant for the real deal, which we’ve been enjoying since childhood. It’s our favorite Chinese dish. WHAT IS PEKING DUCK? Only white-feathered ducks are used in the preparation, what we call Pekin ducks (not to be confused with…
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Salsa verde is made from the green tomatilloberry, which is not a tomato. Photo byHannah Kaminsky | THE NIBBLE. We’re a nation of salsa lovers; but much of that is salsa roja, red salsa. In Mexico, the land from which we obtained our love of salsa, it’s the opposite. Only the northern states of…
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Chicken Lo Mein from Schwan’s is a delicious dish. Photo courtesy Schwan’s. You can toss out the Asian food take-out menus now that Schwan’s offers a quick and easy way to enjoy great Asian food at home. Award-winning chef Jet Tila has recently introduced a new line of frozen meals that are ready to serve…
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We no longer use American bread crumbs. For several years, our crumb of choice is panko, the crispy bread crumb used in Japanese cuisine (think tonkatsu and crunchy sushi rolls). They’re actually “bread flakes” rather than bread crumbs. Panko is made in small flakes, not ground into crumbs like traditional bread crumbs. The flakes provide…
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