cuisine

From street-food to fine dining, traditional Italian to Asian-Fusion, being well-versed in global cuisine is the first step to culinary mastery.

Playing Pretend
I am easily bored. But also easily entertained. I have been an advocate for year-round school for as long as I can remember. Summer was just too long for me, but school was also too long. I liked the structure. Couldn't I get more and longer breaks throughout the year? Stretch it out?
By Janelle Polcyn4 years ago in Feast
Snowballs
My all-time favorite summer treat is a heaping, freshly-shaven, juicy snowball. I have enjoyed these for as long as I can remember; they were a mainstay of my childhood, and their necessity has carried over into my adult life. It’s comparable to a snow cone or shaved ice, and I’ve come to learn the term “snowball” is native to the Baltimore region. It’s an obvious way to mitigate the summer heat, a great excuse for indulging in empty calories, and an integral facet of Maryland summertime culture.
By Nicholas Pietrowski4 years ago in Feast
Cold Noodles
Everyone was staring. The kids, their parents, even the guards followed our family around with their eyes. Some were polite enough to take a peek and immediately pan their gaze to something else. Others locked their pupils unblinkingly on us - the only Korean family in the entire theme park - and though I was a generally carefree ten-year-old, I could feel my face growing hot as I felt the sudden need to study the ground for dried gum as I waited in line for the next ride.
By Jane C4 years ago in Feast
Mango Pomelo Sago: A Classic Summer Dessert of Hong Kong
One of the most classic and most popular summer desserts that I had growing up as a child in the Canton area in China was Mango Pomelo Sago (楊枝金露). It is hands down my all-time favorite. This healthy dessert is a must try. It has a very unique taste, and it just quenches your summer thirst with the mangos and the citrus as its featured ingredients.
By Milo The Legend4 years ago in Feast
Summer Tastes Bitter Sweet
The brown squirrel still taunts me. Just like the taunting thought of what summer camp could have been. I never went to summer camp. Sometimes I feel like I missed out. Why did my parents never send me? Why did I miss out on so much fun? These questions run through my mind every so often. However, when I think back to when I was a child, this was never a cause of any dismay. The truth is, I never dreamed of going to summer camp.
By H.Heron4 years ago in Feast
Summer: the taste of the outdoors
The Taste of the Outdoors The salmon flesh is soft, flaking away easily in pastel pink segments with the gentlest nudge of your fork. The Jersey royals are piping hot and buttery. A side salad of garden green runner beans, dressed with olive oil and a dash of white wine vinegar is ready and waiting. But the taste of summer truly comes when you pick up your plate and carry it out through the patio doors into the sun-soaked garden. With that gentle step past the walls of the house that encircle the inside like a protective membrane, you are transported to a new culinary land, a land where food sounds like the hum of the bees and butterflies around you. A land where food smells like green things growing in the rich dark soil. A land where food tastes, quite simply, like summer on a plate.
By Holly Moeller4 years ago in Feast
Steak Sliders Anyone? No, I'm Not Talking About Any Old Run-of-the-Mill Burger
It was a lovely day. The wedding was over three years in the making thanks to Covid-19, so everyone in attendance was ecstatic to see the greatly anticipated day go so smoothly.
By Madison "Maddy" Newton4 years ago in Feast
A Few Thoughts about Alcohol
This will probably be the most personal thing that I write on this page. And to begin with my own feelings on the matter seems dangerous. But, I am just doing this to expose my thoughts and feelings, anyway, so why should I hold back?
By Kendall Defoe 4 years ago in Feast
Intertidal Magic
I am not a native Pacific Northwesterner. My husband and children have that birthright; for me, I fell in love in my twenties with this misty region where snow-capped volcanoes and rocky mountains mingle with temperate rainforests and orcas frequent the inland sea. It is home to giant tides, where the vertical height of the water can change by sixteen feet within a single day- it can creep over shorelines to shape beaches at one point, and twelve hours later it will draw back to the point that entire bays and sandbars appear, the waterline now more than a thousand feet from shore. It is here, within the mysterious intertidal zone, that my favorite mysteries of the Northwest lay waiting to be discovered. It is also home to one of my favorite delicacies, intertidal clams.
By Penny Fuller4 years ago in Feast
The Skewered Pork Barbecue
Summer tastes like an abominably spiced-up, sizzling-hot pork barbecue to me. Interestingly, I do not remember how many times I have said that, but it is more than a few times. To be fair, summer also smells like a lot of other things to me; freshly-cut grass, salt water, suntan lotion, scorching sun on white sand, sun-bleached sheets on a cool bed, and scalloped potatoes—and I can barely believe the sheer coincidence between the first option in this essay prompt and my actual, real-life olfactory relationship to summertime. Oh, and how can I forget Shalimar; the favorite—and quite frankly, exclusive—fragrance of Mrs. Denali.
By Sarah Elisha4 years ago in Feast
Just Right
My favourite summer food is chocolate. This is because my favourite food is chocolate. In the winter time, chocolate is warm hued riches, a gratifyingly fatty sparkle of the exotic, a hug tinged with eroticism even as it holds you safe like a loving parent. In the summer, chocolate is….the same. But also, a little sickly and prone to melting. Like me, chocolate was not made for hot climates, and I, alas, was not made for chocolate, every dose plunging me into hours of lying still in darkened rooms, my head splintering in ultra slow motion. This is not an optimal way to enjoy the bounty of summer, and so let me turn my attention to other foods, if not rivals, then other runners, worthy of note.
By Hannah Moore4 years ago in Feast
The Best Fruit Vegetable
I grew up on a love for tomatoes - green tomatoes, baby tomatoes, red tomatoes, I ate it all. I put tomatoes on a lot of things that generally would go good with tomatoes on it, such as pizzas and salads, tacos and burritos. I used to eat sliced tomatoes with salt on them because I never originally liked them plain and sliced, and salt added flavor to them, but then somehow I grew out of wanting to put salt on my tomatoes anytime I would slice them if I wasn't eating them whole. I could also eat containers of the baby tomatoes all day, because they are a great snack when you're not wanting to spoil your appetite entirely, but they're just that perfect summer snack and hit the spot every time.
By Sierra 4 years ago in Feast