A few weeks ago, the big news in town was the grand opening of the H Mart in Burlington, MA. H Mart is a New Jersey-based Korean grocery chain with more than 40 locations nationwide. I can only imagine that this one, sprawled out over some 50,000 sq ft has to be one of the [...]
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Week 8, Day 2: Pork
It’s crazy to think that many of my most favorite food items…bacon, pulled pork, carnitas, pork belly, prosciutto, pork chops, numerous variety of sausages, baby back ribs…are all sourced from the same animal. How can it be that all of these very different things, from the mouth-wateringly tender baby back ribs, to the cured and thinly sliced [...]
Pork + Lard = Carnitas Night!
When I lived in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco, I used to frequent a small and rather unassuming burrito joint, fittingly called El Super Burrito. I found lots to love about that place…it is a great, divey, hole-in-the-wall kind of place and my apartment was located right around the corner. Like many equivalent taquerias in [...]
Chili Cookoff Update
And the winner is…..me! I didn’t get the good news until just after I walked in the door tonight after yet another long day in the salt mine. The grand prize? A gift certificate good for 2 burgers, 2 fries, and 2 frappes at Uburger, a tasty burger joint located just down the street from our [...]
Chili Cookoff!
Like the famous scene in the infamous training montage from the first Rocky movie…you know, where he runs up the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art like someone with a 2-pack-a-day Marlboro habit (I guess he does that in all Rocky movies, right?), I’ve been training hard for this big event for weeks now. Actually, [...]
