Word: dishing
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...Plum have come to the capital from impoverished Gansu province and a childhood diet of "dark gruel made of tree bark and sorghum." Subsisting now on noodles and expired canned goods, they marvel at the urban paradise around them. Little Plum, writes Yan, "roams the supermarket, admiring stacks of dish detergents, napkins and bath towels as if they were flower beds or pavilions in a park." Dan's yearning for the good life - and his delight with the gustatory perks of his new calling - initially blind him to the swamp of favors and payoffs he has entered...
...Wansink, director of the Cornell University Food and Brand Lab, presents dozens of studies analyzing the way people make decisions about food. Wansink argues that people are manipulated into eating “mindlessly” by invisible forces outside them, ranging from atmosphere to eating companions to dish size. “Mindless Eating” endeavors to teach how to “remove the cues that cause you to overeat and how to reengineer your kitchen and your habits...
NIGELLA FEASTS FOOD NETWORK, SUNDAYS, 1 P.M. E.T. Nigella Lawson's cookingshows get more attention for the dish doing the cooking than the dishes she cooks. The voluptuous voluptuary is the godmother of TV's food babes (Giada De Laurentiis, Top Chef's Lakshmi), but the real appeal of Feasts--and of Lawson's British series, which it mimics--is her unfussy, wry, practical approach to entertaining and quality comfort food. You can believe, or not, that guacamole and chili are the first things this wealthy, cosmopolitan hostess thinks of when she throws a dinner party. Either way, between...
...house specialty is vermicelli—thin rice noodles in a fish sauce mixed with your choice of beef, pork, or chicken and mint, bean sprouts, and peanuts ($6.95). It is a lovely light dish, and certain versions feature a crispy spring role accompanied by the wonderfully tangy nuoc cham sauce on the side. You can customize it to your liking (I choose to skip the mint), making vermicelli a good choice for your first Vietnamese culinary experience...
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