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A home cooking blog dedicated to exploring the relationship between food and culture. My recipes are a fusion of different tastes, influenced by the variety of places I've lived and the people I have met. LFM also features the Washoku Warriors, a group cooking through Elizabeth Andoh's Japanese cookbook, Washoku.
“I don’t think a really good pie can be made without a dozen or so children peeking over your shoulder as you stoop to look in at it every little while.” — John Gould Ok, so maybe I don’t have a dozen (read full article)
My mom’s side of the family is a lot of fun. We have a family email system where we can send out one email and it goes out to the entire family. Not only does this facilitate some hilarious family banter and the sharing of (read full article)
The Japanese do some amazing things with cake and pastry. They have embraced many Western desserts and made them uniquely their own in many ways. I love a good Japanese sponge cake—moist, light and airy, and not overly sweet (read full article)
Walking through the Shibuya train station in Tokyo, Japan can be shear torture at times. This is not because it is a busy station where it is easy to get turned around if you are not familiar with it, although this is true. It is due to the fact (read full article)
I was recently asked by Challenge Dairy to come up with a creation using one of their butters. The last time they gave me this challenge, I dreampt up Chipotle Pork Quichelettes—mini quiches featuring a special no-fail crust where butter is (read full article)
I love cookbooks and I own an embarrassing number of them. For the most part though, I don’t actually cook from cookbooks. I use them as inspiration and resources for research. There are a few, however, that stay on a special shelf, beca (read full article)
I’m going to let you in on a little secret—the best Nestle Toll House chocolate chip cookie recipe is not the one that they put on every package of chocolate chips. The Toll House recipe gets its name from the Toll House Restaurant (read full article)
I’ve been battling a doozy of a cold. One of those colds where everything sounds muffled, you can’t smell or taste anything, you’re achy, and just generally miserable. One of those colds where you would swear you are sicker than (read full article)
I’m blaming this post on a number of people. My friend Rachel to start with. She invited a bunch of moms with little girls over to her house to take Valentine’s Day pictures of our girls (she’s a talented photographer). It w (read full article)
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