My Precious Knives!!!!
Well, I guess I don’t need to point out that I am not a typical girl- I mean, I love shoes, and don’t mind a nice session of vicious gossip with my friends (99% of whom are a bunch of cooks- Men cooks I might add) but that’s about the end of the similarities between [...]
Rice Paper!!! what a versatile treasure!!
Khlong Toey- This market is world class. And ZERO foreigners!! this is a short clip we filmed in Khlong Toey market, in Bangkok, Thailand.. I use these rice papers for everything, from wrapping fish, crabmeat and herbs.. To outrageous, esoteric mixtures of my own, from BKK to Vietnam.. And I need these delicate rice papers [...]
2009 Oyster Season part 2
Hi again!! did you miss me?! Did you run out last night in search of a plate of oysters?! hope so! Well, as promised, I am continuing my post about oysters.. And one of the very best oysters in the world, in my opinion, is the Kumamoto. It is a tiny oyster, and almost round. [...]
Vietnamese Feast in tel-Aviv!!
Before I start to get into a load of verbiose detail, (you know, the way I like it- ) I would like to say that Vietnamese food happens to be one of my absolute favourite cuisines on the Planet- It’s supremely delicate, full of freshness and lightness, is technically demanding, aesthetically beautiful, yet relies first [...]
It’s 5:00 Somewhere!! Where’s my Martini?!
The Martini: “I like to have a Martini, two at the very most. Three and I’m under the table, four and I’m under my host!” -Dorothy Parker Dorothy Parker was a brilliant, witty, cynical writer who also happened to be a notorious libertine and an unapologetic alcoholic. Needless to say, she is one [...]
