This story is eleventh in a series. Zach will be posting a new story on Mexican food in San Diego every Thursday until he leaves Southern California for the San Francisco Bay, where he will continue to write and edit for The Eaten Path. You’d think I would have gotten sick of tacos by now. [...]
A few weeks ago I competed alongside three other food bloggers in Japan Society’s Clash of the Foodies. You can now watch the entire program online, beginning with my shitty cartwheel and ending with the Taste Buds taking second place. Our prize, bottles of Zen Green Tea Liqueur, couldn’t have been a better match – [...]
This story is tenth in a series. Zach will be posting a new story on Mexican food in San Diego every Thursday until he leaves Southern California for the San Francisco Bay, where he will continue to write and edit for The Eaten Path. Los Angeles can stake a claim as one of the greatest [...]
Homer Simpson may have once fallen under the spell of the good morning burger, but only because he wasn’t aware of the good morning pancake. When Vicky wrote in from Taipei about the staples of Taiwanese breakfast, I was struck with curiosity. Every other account I stumbled upon stoked that curiosity into veritable starvation until [...]
This is the final story of Vicky’s series on Taipei. I’ve never really understood the point of aphrodisiacs. Oysters are included in this group of food items that allegedly stimulate sexual desire. Sure, there are certain foods that really do suggest a bit of romance more than others – strawberries or chocolate, for example. Perhaps [...]
When a conversation with my neighbor, Lulu, hits the twenty-minute mark, it won’t be long before she raises her right pinky, dons a frenzied grimace and puts on her best impersonation of Herman, a clinically insane man pacing back and forth, hooking thin air and repeatedly chirping: “Neer! Neer! Neer! Neer!” A lifelong tenant of [...]
This story is ninth in a series. Zach will be posting a new story on Mexican food in San Diego every Thursday until he leaves Southern California for the San Francisco Bay, where he will continue to write and edit for The Eaten Path. There are few things I miss more about Moscow than the [...]
I have a new camera! After over four years of faithful service, my Powershot SD600 found itself broken screen down in the Knewton e-waste bin. Having never owned a camera with manual control of shutter, aperture and focus, I’ve been coming to terms with my newfound powers at every meal. Many of those meals have [...]
On Saturday, April 10, I will join forces with The Feisty Foodie, Umamimart’s Payman Bahmani and Puff and Choux‘s Mary Ann Porch as part of Japan Society’s “Clash of the Foodies” live game show! The show, which begins at 4:30 p.m. in the Japan Society theater, is one of a sprawling set of events that [...]
Traditional Taiwanese desserts can be a difficult sell to the uninitiated. They usually don’t come from the oven, so they cannot rely on wafting, warm scents or soft, crumbly goodness to draw admirers. They don’t travel very easily in forms suitable for a happy memory, like those of a whimsical cupcake, pretty ice cream cone [...]
