Recipes

I am a Kachka fan. My first introduction to East European/ Russian food was with a dinner with Judiann Woo at Kachka PDX. It was just at the cusp of covid ending and things becoming normal. Not being able to travel at will was something I had to learn in the pandemic years.  To soothe that want, I traveled around the...

In the summers I lived in Shanghai, I would look forward to the cold sesame, peanut-y dressed cold dumplings that pop onto the menu when the weather warms.  This recipe is an homage to all the dumpling makers in my French Concession neighborhood who kept their traditions alive and fed the community with their hand wrapped dumplings.  Ingredients: Frozen dumplings...