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Quickies: Up Your Grain Bowl Game with Chicken Fat and Crispy Rice
"You can add anything in the fridge. You just want the dish to have appeal—like, 'fuck, that's good.'"
Yarrow Plant Could Make You a Less Awful Drunk
There’s no consensus on what yarrow—a plant known for its anesthetic qualities—does mentally. “But I’ve read reports of people using it with alcohol to take away the negative effects and stimulate conversation,” says British forager Richard Osmond.
West Philly's Herbal Medicine Man Makes Edible Magic
West Philadelphia isn’t known as a mecca for shamans and mystics, but that's where I went in search of a medicine man who mixes secret blends of herbs into healing concoctions he sells in old whiskey bottles.
I Tried and Nearly Failed to Understand British Food
My first experiences with British food weren't spectacular, so I visited Myers of Keswick, a Manhattan grocer specializing in UK imports, to help me come to terms with pork pies, Branston pickle, and sticky toffee pudding from a tin.