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...Chicken...
...added to the regular night train from Hanoi to the northern border town of Lao Cai. The journey is such a pleasure that, contrary to most train rides, passengers complain that the 10-hour trip is too short. The experience is mashed potatoes, fried rice and your mother's chicken noodle soup all rolled into one. With its combination of opulence?uniformed waiters, linen tablecloths?and the back-in-time feeling of train travel, it's also a near-perfect antidote to the on-the-road chaos and rush more common today. Call it the inner-peace train. For more...
...every arena of my life, on this issue they were generally polite, sometimes effusively positive. When my attempted reduction sauce was reduced to a smoking black glob in the corner of the saucepan, my mother quietly turned on the fan over the stove and put more salt on her chicken...
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...
Mincing garlic focuses this attention. Blending pine nuts and basil into pesto, caramelizing onions, stirring chicken broth into risotto until precisely the correct amount of liquid has evaporated, sprinkling a touch more turmeric into a pot of chicken curry—these things are all food focuses, they nurture the part of my brain that inevitably wanders to the pantry. but they are productive and do not involve eating. I know this is sort of an alarming thing to say; however much olive oil I use in place of butter to create healthy meals, the root of my love...