Eggplant is one of those culinary chameleons that can take on the flavors of just about any cuisine. Italian? Bring on the mozzarella. Japanese? Hello, miso. Indian? Israeli? Sichuan? Azerbaijani? All good. The humble eggplant has an awful lot of stamps in its passport. So let's look at our favorite eggplant dishes in the city.
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We write about restaurants all over the city. But sometimes, you don't want to travel for food; you want the best eats right in your neighborhood. So we're having the Serious Eats staff share where they eat around their own 'hoods. Today? Serious Drinks and Sweets editor
Maggie Hoffman!
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When I first moved to the Upper West Side in the 1970's, the neighborhood Chinese restaurants were everywhere. Today, they're harder to find—which is why I was thrilled when Grand Sichuan International opened a spot uptown. Here are five of my favorite dishes.
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After reading Kathryn Yu's laundry list of recommended dishes on my last entry about Grand Sichuan, we made plans to go back the next week and do things right. And by "do things right" I mean "order loads of...
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My favorite meal to eat at Grand Sichuan consists of a fiery hot meat dish and a non-fiery vegetable dish. During my last visit, my friends and I shared the Chong Qing chicken, whose star isn't the chicken as...
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Before there was Sudafed, there was Sichuan hot pot. Central China's answer to fondue, a steaming pot of fiery broth, bobbing with dried chilis and peppercorns is a powerful decongestant. I guess I wasn't the only person feeling the...
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Grand Sichuan founder Xiaotu Zhang debunked the common notion that "authentic" food is always good food in a recent New York Magazine interview. It's no good when it's "too salty, too oily, too spicy. Healthy—that’s good," he noted....
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Three months in the slurping, my chicken soup piece came out Wednesday in the NYTimes. For those of you who don't read the Times, I am going to list my ten favorite chicken soups (I sampled a hundred) here, along...
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