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Beef Rendang

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This Beef Rendang was one of the dishes I learned how to cook one rainy afternoon at Russel Wong’s home (yes, the Russel Wong from Bourdain’s Singapore espisode). His wife Judy can cook about as well as Russel can shoot a portrait, after an afternoon sweating over a wok, we were sitting down with friends [...]

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Pork Sugo with Strozzapreti

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Fall is one of my favorite seasons. The golden sunsets cast long shadows, vermillion leaves scurry around in circles carried by the brisk autumn breeze, and in the kitchen, it’s the season of slow-cooked melt-in-your-mouth roasts and home warming braises. Perhaps it’s driven by some primal nesting instinct, but as the thermostat falls, I yearn [...]

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Braised Beef and Burdock

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I just spent 3 amazing weeks in Colorado, cooking for a family that was vacationing there. For me, it was an unprecedented marathon of peeling, simmering, sautéing and flambéing. As busy as the kitchen was, the scale of the nature that surrounded us brought some measure of tranquility with each grazing deer, hovering hummingbird, and [...]

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Cinnamon Braised Pork with Daikon

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We’ve been getting more snow this winter than I can remember since moving to New York in 2006. The snow really transforms the city from a dingy grey concrete jungle to a pristine white wonderland that brightens even the darkest alleys. Walking up the middle of a milky white Broadway without a car in sight, [...]

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Guanciale & Mandarin Sugo Recipe

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Those of you that made a new year’s resolution to eat less fat should probably skip right past this post and go look at a nice healthy salad. You’ve been warned After making my Pasta Amatriciana I had a fair bit of guanciale left. I’d originally set it aside to make a more authentic pasta [...]

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Mushroom Onion Pot Roast

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On Friday, I was on the subway heading home from a meeting that had gone really well, when I finally checked Twitter for the first time all afternoon. There was a deluge of tweets buzzing about the 3 finalists for Project Food Blog. At first I was shocked. Then I felt honored by the outpouring [...]

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Lamb Green Chili

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With the days growing shorter and summer coming to a close, I’ve been spending my weekends in a sort of melancholy bliss. Therpists might call it SAD, but I really do love fall. The weather here is perfect, and knowing that the bleak winter is just a turn of the calendar away makes you appreciate [...]

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Buta Kabuni (pork belly and turnips)

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We’ve mercifully been given a break to the heatwave that’s turned New York City into a soupy swamp of humidity. A light cloud cover and extra time are two things I haven’t experienced in weeks, so I jumped at the chance to braise a luscious slab of Niman Ranch pork belly I’ve had sitting in [...]

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