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Archive for Howling Hot Food
Friday Food Follies: Truth in Advertising Meets Chile Peppers
Ever wanted a fast-food burger that was so zesty it would blow your socks off? Well, here’s an option you may have overlooked:
Seems them peppers are Really Spicy; I’m out to get me one…
Enjoy the (Extreme Hamburger) Heat! Read more »
Tailgatin’ on a Tuesday
Finally the weather’s cold enough to think about football. If you’re a true football fan, you’re required you know how to prepare tailgating fare for you and all the lazy camp followers friends and family who come with you to the game to drink your beer and eat you out of house and home cheer [...] Read more »
Gandhi’s Birthday Feast
Today is Gandhi’s Birthday, a major holiday in India. He is revered as the father of modern India, now 60+ years ago. A man of strong will and gentle ways, he led the (mostly) nonviolent ejection of the British from their largest colony, and was featured on the cover of Time magazine three times. He [...] Read more »
The Unfortunate Incident of the Indian Green Chile
The Great Chile Underground Hurricane Escape Tour Indian Food Exploration and Mad-Crazy Karnatakan Taxi Dash Bangalore Cultural Safari continued today. I was warned that Monday traffic could be an epic battle against the forces of darknessa a real challenge, so I got down to the breakfast buffet (one of my seven favorite meals of the [...] Read more »
Hellfire and Brimstone on Burn’em Up Thursday: Jamaican Brown Fish Stew, Hellfire Chicken
No, I’m not opening a branch of the Church of the Underground. However, I’m giving you plenty of advance warning: Today’s dishes are about as zesty-hot as they can get without being puréed Bhut Jolokias. Despite that, there’s more flavor here than you might assume.
I’ve gotten in the habit of posting fish & seafood dishes [...] Read more »
The Nonyas of Malaysia
The Nonyas of Malaysia are an interesting story. Originally, the Chinese dominated trade in the Strait of Malacca and on down the southwest coast of present-day Malaysa. Of course, these traders and explorers brought their culture and cooking with them. Because only men were permitted to leave China for trade, they set up businesses and [...] Read more »
More Malaysian: Fish Curry and Mee Goreng
Malaysia has an advantageous geographic position, as far as food influences go. For the last many centuries, travelers going north and south have used the peninsula to travel from China and Indochina to Indonesia and beyond. Those traders and travelers going east-west have had to deal with this long reach of land in their road. [...] Read more »
Special Edition Food Follies to Kick Off July: Killer Wings and Spam…
College Station, TX: Wings to Die For, But Only If You Sign the Release First…
A traditional eatery in the hometown of the Texas Aggies (traditional = restaurant & laundromat) now serves buffalo wings so hot that you have to sign a special endemnity release to get a serving of them. One visitor wrote of his [...] Read more »
