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Moon Cakes. Really?

by Canucklehead 08.22.2011

(photo via Flickr by miss karen)
The timing of Chinese Mid Autumn festival has always felt odd to me. Especially when I lived in Hong Kong, suffering through mid-30’s heat with 110% humidity – the cooling promise of “Mid-Autumn” seemed more like a cruel taunt, than an actual celebration.
Adding credence to the idea that the [...]

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The Rebirth of Uncool

by Canucklehead 07.25.2011

(Photo by Flckr SqueakyMarmot under create commons license)
It’s a great story, a satisfying tale that adds to the mythology one of our great city icons. Young Dynamic Entrepreneur (in the form of Mark Brand) Saves Downtown Eastside Institution Save On Meats! Wrecking ball averted! Greedy developers thwarted! Hurrah!!
And without any irony, this [...]

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My Own House of Ramen

by Canucklehead 07.18.2011

The inaugural issue of Lucky Peach Magazine, the hotly anticipated collaboration between Momofuku’s David Chang and McSweeney’s, is devoted to all things ramen. Included is a recipe for fresh ramen (alkaline) noodles – and it seems so ridiculously easy, either it’s culinary magic or the meanest practical joke ever. The recipe consist [...]

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Go East, Young Man!

by Canucklehead 07.10.2011

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There was a time when it was not only aspirational to live west of Ontario Street – it was mandatory if you had any hope of forward motion in your life. Okay, this is clearly overstating the point, but my parents certainly bought into this notion. East Van kids were bad [...]

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The Weekend Cook

by Canucklehead 06.13.2011

Now that it is finally warm, everyone is going nuts trying to cram as much as they can into that 48 hour window that is the weekend. So grateful was I for the sun, I willingly worked in the garden for a five stretch this past Saturday (something I would have literally bet my life [...]

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Sandwiches You Will Like

by Canucklehead 06.03.2011

There are few things in this world that is a satisfying as a well-constructed sandwich. A good sandwich is inherently honest – over fancy ingredients immediately taste false and misplaced, while at the other extreme, all the Hellman’s in the world can’t cover the sad tang of cheap industrial meat.
Of course sandwiches have always [...]

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