Stop Calling It “Ethnic Food”—and More Tips on How to Talk About Eating
Adalberto Roque/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Thai coconut curries and lemongrass soups often include pungent notes of a bumpy, thick-skinned citrus fruit called the makrut lime. English-speakers usually refer to it as kaffir lime. But even as the ingredient gains popularity, turning up in everything from cocktail recipes to…
The Aftertaste of Slavery Still Haunts American Cooking
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Amid the ongoing controversy over Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam and his racist medical-school yearbook hijinx, his wife, Pam Northam, recently plunged into another one. During a school tour of the governor’s mansion, built by slave labor in 1813, Pam Northam handed cotton and tobacco to…
For Pixar’s Domee Shi, “Write What You Know” Yielded a Strange, Magical Chinese Dumpling
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. If you haven’t seen Bao, one of this year’s Oscar contenders for best animated short film, you’re in for a treat. Or not. In the film, the bao—which is a Chinese word for bun or dumpling—comes to life and grows up right before its mother’s…
Make—and Devour—the Dumpling from Pixar’s Oscar-Nominated Film “Bao”
Disney Pixar Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Ingredients Filling (adjust all seasoning to taste) 1 lb of ground pork 1 lb of chinese cabbaged (minced) 1 carrot (minced) 2-3 green onion stalks (chopped) 1 egg 1-2 ground ginger 1 tsp olive oil 1/2 tsp chicken bouillon powder 1 tsp oyster…
Training Your Tongue to Love Spicy Food Benefits More Than Your Taste Buds
Tourists eat chilies in a hot spring during a contest in Yichun City, east China’s Jiangxi province, in December 2018.Imaginechina/AP Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The tongue-searing, eye-watering heat caused by eating chili peppers comes from a substance called capsaicin. Stuart Walton became very familiar with the stuff while…
We Got a Scientist to Explain What You Knew in Your Heart of Hearts: The Five-Second Rule Is Gross.
Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s the most wonderful time of the year—and also the germiest. Viruses and bacteria thrive in the winter, and festive gatherings give them plenty of opportunities to circulate. Luckily for you, this week on the Mother Jones food politics podcast, Bite, our guest has…