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The Dining Room

France

Joe Beef Is Cooking for the End of the World

Like the first Joe Beef cookbook, Joe Beef: Surviving the Apocalypse defies easy categorization. But one thing is certain: It’s very much a reflection of our times.

Joe Beef Is Cooking for the End of the World
Italy

The Truth About Balsamic Vinegar

A river of black gold flows from the cities of Modena and Reggio Emilia straight to your home kitchen.

The Truth About Balsamic Vinegar
United States

JB Prince Is the Chef’s Third Hand

This mythic Manhattan kitchen store is where sous vide circulators, Global knives, and the Gray Kunz sauce spoon became legend.

JB Prince Is the Chef’s Third Hand
Japan

Beef Sukiyaki Don Keisuke Review: Gourmet Yoshinoya-esque Beef Bowls From $13.90++

Beef Sukiyaki Don Keisuke at Tanjong Pagar Keisuke Takeda has done it again.

Beef Sukiyaki Don Keisuke Review: Gourmet Yoshinoya-esque Beef Bowls From $13.90++
United States

Cookbooks, Not Restaurants, Are Giving Black Foodways An Identity

I remember the first time I ever heard Etta James Sing “At Last.” I’d never really understood the blues on an elemental level before, but when I heard her sorrow and her raw humani

Cookbooks, Not Restaurants, Are Giving Black Foodways An Identity
Singapore

Pastaria Abate Review: Affordable Handmade Pasta At Tanjong Pagar From $8.80 Nett

Pastaria Abate at Tanjong Pagar Update: the rates at Pastaria Abate have grew, and service charge is now applicable. While anyone can whip up a plate of semi-decent pasta in minute

Pastaria Abate Review: Affordable Handmade Pasta At Tanjong Pagar From $8.80 Nett
Singapore

8 Newton Food Places With Good Food That Are Not In Newton Food Centre

If you prefer Indian food, hit up The Song of India that is located on the same street as Indocafe. This Michelin-starred restaurant is a posh one so do be prepared to splurge a li

8 Newton Food Places With Good Food That Are Not In Newton Food Centre
United States

Comfort Me With An Assembly Line of Dumplings

There’s no cure for heartbreak. But Soviet mechanical efficiency and endless pelmeni do help.

Comfort Me With An Assembly Line of Dumplings
United States

Alone With the Cookbooks

David Hsu, an author and social scientist, believes that food is the way to fight back against America’s growing social isolation. I began following David Hsu (pronounced “shoo”) o

Alone With the Cookbooks
Singapore

Zui Hong Lou Review: Braised Pork Belly Bao and Kung Pow Octopos Under $10 At Club Street

Zui Hong Lou at Club Street Yes, this is the same Zui Hong Lou that first opened in 2013 at Ann Siang Hill.

Zui Hong Lou Review: Braised Pork Belly Bao and Kung Pow Octopos Under $10 At Club Street
France

Eat Your Ham By the Steak

Seeing an old cookbook through a clean lens, buffed after 15 more years of preparation, eating, and living.

Eat Your Ham By the Steak
Singapore

The Three Peacocks Review: Live Seafood BBQ Buffet With Live Crabs, Prawns And More

Live seafood BBQ buffet at The Three Peacocks With a lack of nature trails in Singapore, The Southern Ridges has become a crowd-favourite.

The Three Peacocks Review: Live Seafood BBQ Buffet With Live Crabs, Prawns And More
United States

Reconstructing the Lemon Bar

Designing a more delicate, less cloying, lemon bar—based on some of the earliest recipes for the dessert.

Reconstructing the Lemon Bar
Israel

Uri Buri: The Bearded Chef of Akko

For nearly 20 years, Uri Jeremias has been cooking fish and spreading the gospel of Israeli cooking. It’s about time the world listened.

Uri Buri: The Bearded Chef of Akko
Singapore

Empress Porridge Review: Hidden Peanut Porridge Gem Near Kent Ridge MRT Station

Empress Porridge serves food for the soul, from the heart Healthy food always gets a bad rep for being boring or unappetising.

Empress Porridge Review: Hidden Peanut Porridge Gem Near Kent Ridge MRT Station
Japan

Ginza Rokukakutei Review: Kushikatsu Restaurant With One Michelin Star In Japan Opens In SG

Ginza Rokukakutei is a deep-fried skewer paradise from Osaka Unless you’re a food connoisseur well-versed in the wonderful art of Japanese cuisine, the term “kushikatsu” might take

Ginza Rokukakutei Review: Kushikatsu Restaurant With One Michelin Star In Japan Opens In SG
United States

Lessons Learned From 11 Years of Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwiches for Lunch

If your childhood lunchtime routine isn’t broken, then why should you fix it?

Lessons Learned From 11 Years of Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwiches for Lunch
United States

Jon Shook Loves His Butter Wheel

Everybody with a kitchen has a decent knife, a cutting board or two, and some mixing bowls. In our column Surprisingly Useful, we’re going beyond these basics and talking to chefs,

Jon Shook Loves His Butter Wheel
Japan

Ami Ami Review: Onsen Egg Tempura Don That’s Limited To 10 Customers Daily

Ami Ami dishes out onsen egg tempura Update (4 April 2019): Ami Ami has permanently ceased trading.

Ami Ami Review: Onsen Egg Tempura Don That’s Limited To 10 Customers Daily
Singapore

Hao Lai Wu Review: Steamboat And BBQ Buffet From $16.80+ At Chinatown

Hao Lai Wu offers the best of both worlds When it comes to dining out, my family takes an eternity to settle on just one place to eat at.

Hao Lai Wu Review: Steamboat And BBQ Buffet From $16.80+ At Chinatown
United States

Questions for Amanda Chantal Bacon From a Former Moon Juice Skeptic

We asked the founder of millennial-baiting L.A. juice chain Moon Juice about the dusts, herbs, and harsh critics that keep her busy.

Questions for Amanda Chantal Bacon From a Former Moon Juice Skeptic
Vietnam

Breaking In The Pho Cookbook

If you are actually going to make something for dinner (and it’s OK if you’re not!), choices need to be made.

Breaking In The Pho Cookbook
United States

When Your Favorite Restaurant Is 3,000 Miles Away, the Solution Is to Cook

There are three things writer Carlye Wisel has missed about New York City since fleeing to the West Coast last year: a tiny handful of people, her chiropractor, and Jack’s Wife Fre

When Your Favorite Restaurant Is 3,000 Miles Away, the Solution Is to Cook
United States

Buffalo Chicken Has An Italian Cousin. His Name Is Agrodolce

A chicken dish at Philadelphia’s Res Ipsa is a crash course in the sweet, sour virtues of agrodolce. Eggplant isn’t supposed to make you cry.

Buffalo Chicken Has An Italian Cousin. His Name Is Agrodolce