PREQUELThe Good: Ode to JG’s Molten Chocolate Cake, Pt. I

I should’ve known that the whole thing was a bad idea, but curiosity got the better of me yet again. I had been mesmerized by the omnipresent Domino’s
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Part I: THE GOOD @Nougatine, NYC

There are only a couple of desserts in the world that I could devote a series of posts to- molten chocolate cake (aka Lava, Warm, Flourless) is one of the chosen few.

When it comes to dinner,
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Iceland is famous for lots of things: regularly erupting volcanos, Bjork the magic Elf and hot geysers sending steaming towers of water towards the sky. And the kitchen is not falling behind these marvels.

Typical for a secluded island far away from everything, they have developed their very own food
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I am hopping on the plane to San Francisco from Tokyo in a few hours, so I won’t be able to see the results for the Umami vote live – but it looks like boobies
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I am shocked that I haven’t posted anything on cereal on Umamimart yet. Ever since living in Tokyo, I have not been able to live out the fantasies that I have as a self-proclaimed cereal
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This week we’re going to have a little fun during Happy Hour as we set aside the history lessons and cocktail lore, along with all notions of cocktail purism and snobbery, to indulge in a
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When I heard about the Vosges Mo’s Bacon
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This is my third White Day. One of my first blog posts on UM was about my first White Day.

Three times a charm and I finally realized that White Day is
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Preface: Kitchen Follies: Chocolate Turd

As you know, I have a tendency to fight till I get it right. This only happens when I am cooking. I usually don’t have
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I failed. Utterly and completely. I’ve had some failures in the past but usually saved them from total disaster, but this time, there was nothing I could do…

Last week, Kayoko asked me to write about
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