Essay · August 20, 2026
Local Roots, Global Table
Why a kid from Grants Pass, Oregon spent a decade writing down recipes from Taishan, Guangdong.
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Technique · July 28, 2026
Eight Cuisines, One Wok
What changes between Cantonese and Sichuan cooking is not the pan — it's the order of operations.
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Kitchen Notes · June 24, 2026
Cooking the Holidays for a Two-Cuisine Family
Notes from the year the turkey and the steamed fish shared a table, and both were better for it.
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Essay · May 30, 2026
Three Ingredients Is a Discipline
Constraint cookbooks get dismissed as beginner books. They are the hardest ones to write.
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