What It Means
Catillation is an obsolete word meaning: to lick one's plate. It has nothing to do with cats, except that they catillate quite a bit.
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Indistinguishable From Magic: Koji Up Close
Although far less familiar in the West, koji has been the foundation of Japanese cuisine for centuries. It’s rice (or another starch) inoculated with the fungus Aspergillus oryzae, and it’s the basic ingredient for soy sauce, sake, miso, rice vinegar and many other products. Now koji has become the trendy plaything of chefs all over the world. Continue reading
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Tagged Carla Hall, cooking, event, koji, Les Dames D'Escoffier, Noma, Rene Redzepi, reporting, sake
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From Noma to Noma, The Long Way Around
Review of Hungry: Eating, Road-Tripping, and Risking It All with the Greatest Chef in the World, by Jeff Gordinier. For anyone wondering if gonzo journalism died with Tom Wolfe, here is a book for you. Imagine a Kool-aid acid trip … Continue reading