September 2011
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Make this Marinade: Cuban Mojo
photo courtesy eatinglocalinthetropics.blogspot.com
Despite what many people think, Cuban food is never spicy. Instead, it’s tangy from citrus and pungent from loads of garlic. That combination is the quintessential sabor cubano, and it comes from their signature sauce: Mojo.
Before you make Mojo, you have to first find Sour Oranges. They’re local to the tropics and are easily...
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Hungry in Queens - A Soup Dumpling Tour of...
Tiffany Yeh is a great sport. She spent the summer with Raphael and me (and James the Dachshund) as Hungry in Brooklyn’s intern. Now that she’s back at SUNY Albany, we miss her very much. But we wouldn’t let her leave without a bang: since she spent the past few months learning about Brooklyn’s food culture, we figured she could teach us a few things about her own. In...