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Oct 31, 20243 min read
Soup Season Is Year-Round and If You Think Otherwise You Are a Knave and Nincompoop
An open recipe to all my soup-slurping supporters: Today, I emerge from a break in my soup connoisseurship endeavors. Some would posit it...
Jun 16, 20247 min read
Shabu Shack of Horrors: Diners Steal My Identity
When one steals another's identity, it puts one's life into disarray. They must cancel their credit cards, check their bank accounts, and...
Mar 28, 20246 min read
Eating "The First Noodle of China" (A Highly Dubious Claim)
Tonight, I entered a very strange culinary establishment claiming to serve The First Noodle of China. I am half disturbed, half amused by...
Mar 22, 20245 min read
Shoguns, Catholics, and Delicious Soup at a Japanese Restaurant
I have something quite embarrassing to admit: I am beginning to enjoy learning about Japan. And not just the soups as one would expect —...
Jan 22, 20244 min read
My Quite Delectable Cabbage Soup
It began with a strange interaction. There I was shamefully standing in line at the awful grocery establishment known as Trader Joe's....
Dec 19, 20239 min read
Start Spreading the Soups: A Disturbing Taste of NYC
I was on the red eye flight from the beautiful city of Sacramento to the booming metropolis of New York, formerly New Amsterdam. My...
Jul 19, 20236 min read
Confronting the Dark History of Hawaii with Udon
When on my travels across that idle matzo ball soup surrounded by oceanic broth that is the island known as O'ahu, I learned many a thing...
Jul 18, 20235 min read
A Simple Twist of Fête
Sometimes, as a soup connoisseur, you must travel the seven seas for broth-related inspiration. Yes, when Columbus set out for the...
Apr 12, 20237 min read
A Fly in My Dien Bien Pho
Just like that, I have returned, emerging from a soup-induced hiatus to tell you of a sorrowful story, a sordid tale of broth, basil and...
Oct 17, 20225 min read
The Poorly-Named Dumpling
China. Where do I begin? Yes, it is a place we all know. Home of the noodle, inventor of gunpowder. Did you know they invented paper too?...
May 2, 20225 min read
What do the Qadis Say of the Canteen?
The green sign beckons to me. A beacon in the distance, I am drawn to it. I am a traveller, a Marco Polo for meat, an Ibn Battuta of...
Jan 18, 20223 min read
Mounds of Meat
My journey to the mound of meat started with a bang. I woke up this morning, completely unaware that I was going to experience the meat...
Feb 13, 20215 min read
Great Days in Soup History: A Blasphemous Ramen
I have decided to begin a new series documenting my travels of connoisseurship across the world. I am a culinary Magellan, writing on the...
Dec 28, 20203 min read
A Quite Flavorful Tom Kha Gai
The coconut. Alas, the most versatile of fruits. It can be a source of expensive water that Zac Efron can drink on a new reality show....
Dec 22, 20202 min read
Matzo Balls to the Wall
Like a Jewish Jesus, I have returned from a long soup-induced slumber to present to you a most treacherous tale of broth and brutality....
Jul 2, 20202 min read
A Most Delectable Chili
People often ask me, "is chili a soup?" To which I reply, like a Talmudic scholar of old, "it is a question which I cannot easily...
Jul 2, 20202 min read
An Ode to Soup
Dear Soup, Your beautiful, liquid ebbs and flows move in the bowl. Your viscous and non-viscous shapes press against my mouth. Truly, you...
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