Articles for tag: Dungeness Crab, Fusion Cuisine, Masa, Nobu, Sashimi

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Where to Find the World’s Most Expensive Sushi

Call it the high price of uncooked food, but sushi is still one of the world’s most favorite exotic cuisines, ranging from simple rolls to lavish presentations. Gourmet food lovers delight in unique combinations of sushi rice, seaweed, and raw fish with special sauces, while simpler tastes may prefer a simple serving of sashimi. Whatever ...

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Top 5 New York Sushi Restaurants

Freshness: that’s the most important factor in distinguishing run-of-the-mill rolls from the best sushi that the New York dining scene has to offer. Beginning with the freshest catch from the Atlantic and Pacific, sushi chefs form miniature works of culinary art out of expertly-sliced fish, vegetables and piquant garnishes. At these five New York sushi ...

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Cheap Restaurants in Los Angeles

Part I: Mexican Food: Barato When I moved to Los Angeles in 1992, I had a roommate named Lynn. Lynn was a man who would drink two beers, matriculate to several lines of cocaine, and then culminate the evening with a perilous motorcycle ride across Hollywood to El Gran Burrito on Virgil Avenue. There he ...

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Top 10 Places to Throw a Birthday Party in San Francisco, California

Celebrating a birthday in San Francisco? Why not celebrate your birthday by having a birthday party? Here are 10 locations in San Francisco to hold your party, including celebrating with good ol’ Creole cooking, how to surround yourself with Anime, and going back to your Irish roots. 1. Bliss Bar. Located in Noe Valley on ...

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The Versatile Yuca Root

Yuca (pronounced you-kah), also known as cassava, is a root vegetable that is grown in tropical and subtropical regions, and is available year round. Yuca first appeared in South America, and has become a staple in Central America, Africa, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Yuca is a root that varies in length and diameter, just like ...

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Vegetarian Alternatives to Lard

I admit, I made a huge vegetarian faux-pas this holiday season. I try to make tamales every December and as we are new to being vegetarians, the challenge was to make a vegetarian or vegan tamale. Just after Thanksgiving, our family accepted a 30-day challenge to try to stay vegetarian for a month and we ...

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Top Spots for New Mexican Cuisine in Las Cruces, NM

If you’re planning on visiting the second-largest city in the Land of Enchantment, come with an appetite for chile! The locally-grown delicacy is the staple of the region’s cuisine and the question “Red or Green?” has been recently recognized as officially the state gastronomic catchphrase. There are numerous places to get your chile fix, but ...