Sweet and Sour Pork with Carrots is a weeknight-friendly meal adapted from Madhur Jaffrey’s brilliant 1993 cookbook A Taste of the Far East. This dish has been a staple in our family for two decades or so, since I first found A Taste of the Far East at a local library. The ingredient list is……
Ingredient: white vinegar
Tomato Beef Chow Yuk with Pea Pods (Oregon, 1974, adapted)
I’m fortunate to live in an area with a large Asian population and have ready access to high-quality traditional Chinese food. And I occasionally like to tell myself that I’m somehow fancy or cultured because I can distinguish regional cuisines or appreciate cold, spiced jellyfish, but I also have a soft spot in my heart……
Pickled Heart (Wisconsin, 1980s, adapted)
Pickled Heart is a hunter’s recipe, an example of the waste not, want not philosophy that underpins responsible hunting. If you’re going to go to all the trouble to drag an animal out of the forest back to your truck, you’re not going to take the best cuts and toss out the rest. You’re going……