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Every Asian restaurant has its own take on authentic. At Indika, in the upscale Memorial neighborhood, it means reinterpretation. The techniques are scrupulously traditional, but every dish includes some surprise: crabmeat in the flaky samosas, fresh spinach and mustard greens in the saag paneer, and litchi juice in the margaritas. Indika's self-taught chef-owner, Anita Jaisinghani, 41, worked most recently at Cafe Annie, one of Houston's best-known restaurants. She knows when to keep things simple (a meltingly tender lamb shank) and when to experiment (puff pastry crowned with palm sugar and almonds). "I wanted to Americanize...
...Francisco (Ozumo), they're also making a comeback in Japan. Sasano, in the Akasaka entertainment district of Tokyo, is a current hot spot. Regulars sit at the wood-slab bar in the nouveau-Japanese restaurant, where manager Miwa Taguchi recommends selections from the 70 sake choices to flatter each dish a diner orders. Connoisseurs start with a daiginjo such as Higan from Niigata prefecture, which boasts a pretty transparency and refreshing taste that goes well with salty burdock-root chips. The distinctive ginjo-grade Suiro is a good balance for tempura pork. Premium sakes like these are usually served chilled...
...recently as the 1980s, a cold winter was a curiosity, an outbreak of a new disease, a problem for the third world, and, while the Soviets had many nuclear weapons, they knew better than to use them. Today's tightly connected globe means that uncertain times create a petri dish in which destabilizing fears multiply. Worse, if climate change does come about and those fears become real, the damage will be far greater if we're not prepared...
...debuting in May. The show described by the Food Network as “a fast-paced battle between two teams with only their love of food in common” brings teams to a local restaurant where they must prepare a surprise regional specialty (such as a cheese dish in Wisconsin or catfish in Alabama). With a stopwatch running, the teams must prepare a scrumptious dinner for two with only some basic ingredients and an extra $20 at their disposal...
Zidel, a petite brunette who wears a tiny silver choker that displays a sparkling letter ‘E,’ says that in her circle of friends, it is she who tends to dish out the advice. She says she and her friends used to hold mock “Sex and the City”-style advice sessions in Grays Common Room her freshman year...