Matcha tea comes from the same plant that originates all green, white, and black teas: the camellia sinensis bush. The name “matcha” literally means “powdered tea.” The process of turning tea leaves into a powder is not new. Matcha was the primary way...
Yuki Izakaya : Korean-Japanese Fusion There are quite a few Japanese restaurants opening up around the heart of Duluth and I've never really noticed Yuki Izakaya until a friend of mine brought them up in a conversation we were...
HONG KONG DESSERTS HIT DULUTH Being in America for the past year and a half, I almost forgot what it was like to be walking through the streets of Hong Kong and trying many different street foods such as the...
As flavors and culinary innovation tend to travel beyond the boundaries of their origin country, let’s explore the ever-popular dessert “rolling” from country to country—Thai rolled ice cream. We live in a world where culinary globalization is taking center stage,...
Flavors of Vegas Hit Historic Duluth I have heard a lot of things about Nacho Daddy and yet did not know the full location until I accidentally stumbled upon it while walking through historic Duluth. What I did not know...
SHOUTING over the hiss and screech of an assembly line, Chris Tomaras described the feat of food engineering that made him rich. “The trick,” he yelled in a heavy Greek accent, “is to use certain forces, like temperature and pressure,...
It's getting easy to find upscale doughnuts in big cities. (Photo: Micheline Maynard) Coffee and doughnuts used to be an inexpensive start to the day. But as coffee has gone upscale, doughnuts have followed. Every major city in the country,...
