From the Warm Kitchen, The Spicy Scent of Sambar Floats out to the Beach.

My oldest first cousin, Jane Murdock Snaidas, a devoted home cook with vegan tendencies, also shared Misa’s disdain for cheese. When Jane came to visit us in California for one of our family reunions, she was horrified by the amount of cheese that appears on restaurant menus in the Golden State. When I pointed out […]
October 2024 – Embracing Autumn: Cheese, Please!

As October arrives, I find myself musing like Hamlet, though my thoughts are not on life and death but on the big culinary question of the season: “To cheese or not to cheese.” My late mother-in-law, Misae Higashi, an excellent home cook who grew up in Japan, once told me in complete seriousness, “Cheese is […]