May 9, 2008
Today's WSJ offers highs and lows of Beijing dining: just in time for summer Olympics. With wallet-sized crib notes for best dumplings, family-style, and "most delicious," among other categories.
Eric Asimov laments the Department of Health's closing of Chinatown's Mei Lai Wah Coffee House. Comparing this grungy shrine to roast pork buns to some of the funkiest mold-covered wine cellars in Europe, he wonders whether an exception should have been made: "However unappealing such places might be to modern eyes should not success over time earn them a pass?"
Your daily Ramsay: Chef Gordon Ramsay wants restaurants to only serve seasonal vegetables, and he'd like to see them fined if they don't: "I don't want to see asparagus in the middle of December. I don't want to see strawberries from Kenya in the middle of March. I want to see it home-grown...There should be stringent laws, licensing laws, to make sure produce is only used in season and season only."
May 8, 2008
Several 100-foot wide sunny-side up eggs presently grace the city square of Leeuwarden, a town in the north of the Netherlands.
At Food & Wine, chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten shows you how to roast a suckling pig.
Foul-mouthed chef Gordon Ramsay, presently under fire from the Catholic Church, is now concerned with his son's swearing. "Yesterday he came running in and said, 'Dad, what's a wanker?','' said Ramsay. "I explained to him it meant like being a bit of an idiot and he replied, 'Oh, you mean like a knob?'." Ba-dum-dum.
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