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Cooking for other people is nice, especially now in school when a homemade meal is sort of a novelty. And of course it makes me happy to hear that my version of chicken satay passes muster with my Thai roommate. She did say it had a distinctive “Rachel style” to it, which, considering my lack of Asian ancestry, is sort of a confusing compliment. She ate it anyway, though, so I won’t dwell...
...American palate increasingly accepts and incorporates foreign cuisines, grilling is an early adapter. "The Indonesian satay guy, the Indian tandoori master, the Argentinian asador, the Mexican carnita lady all have a lingua franca with the Texas brisket guy," says Raichlen. But to cook these new dishes, the patio daddios need temperature control, they need more than one method of cooking and they at least think they need to upgrade constantly. "We tell people the [$5,000] Ultimate Grill is the last grill they'll ever have to buy," says David Lally at Frontgate, a high-end home furnishings-catalog company...
...yesterday a group of about 25 students carried cardboard boxes heaped with yellow pieces of paper, stamped "VOID" and each affixed to a satay skewer. They then planted the "ballots," across the southeast end of the common...
Okay, the appetizers aren't all that phantasmagoric. The chicken and beef satay, sliced nice and thin on skewers, are served with a not-too-mild peanut sauce and a sweet-and-sour cucumber sauce, all quite recommended. Go with the beef if you want the extra flavor, but stick with the chicken (always white meat) if you're one of those sandal-wearing, granola-munching health freaks. The Thai Sticks are a bountiful but bland batch of veggies fried in batter, not worth it unless you're starving. The Tod Mun shrimp and fish cake is kind of chewy...
...range of foods from many lands to be sampled includes Indonensian "satay" (beef tidbits on bamboo skewers), Polish "golabki" (stuffed cabbage), German potato salad and American barbecued ribs. Others include Armenian, Bengali, Chinese, Egyptian, French, Greek, Hawaiian, Indian, Irish, Italian, Portuguese, Scottish, Turkish and Ukrainian dishes. For those with a sweet tooth there will be many pastries and an international candy booth...