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Michael

Michael

Mike is a self-taught cook and a professional photographer. He loves to do the cooking and video editing as a hobby. Travelling and exploring culture is what he does mostly throughout the year.

    Perfect Bite
    Food & RecipesLunch

    Anatomy of the Perfect Bite

    by Michael December 3, 2020
    written by Michael

    One of the benefits of my current freelance gig is the schedule—I work until an ungodly hour on Monday nights, then have Tuesdays and Wednesdays to recover. I try to be productive on those days off, I really do, but the apartment is still messy, the laundry is in piles, and my various writing projects are yet untouched. It’s shockingly easy to acclimate to a midweek weekend.
    Taken in that context, I consider it an accomplishment when I manage to make it out for lunch. It helps to choose to forget about the financial expenditure (dinner normally costs a whole lot more) and the caloric intake (one large meal in the middle of the day is much better for you than a large meal in the evening): Both are easily justified as minor side effects of blog-content procurement. Anything for you, readers. (And the light’s much better at lunchtime, too).

    Though I was less than impressed with Momofuku Noodle Bar, I thoroughly enjoyed my meal at the spinoff a few blocks over; I’ve been unsuccessful, so far, in wrangling a party large enough (or spendy enough) to spring for the bossäm or fried chicken dinners, but Ssäm Bar‘s new(ish) weekday-only lunchtime duck menu? That I could do.

    The pulled-duck bun was underwhelming—bland, with way too much mayo—but thanks to an array of sauces and condiments (duck fat! hoisin! sriracha!) the rotisserie duck was a bowl of choose-your-own-adventure deliciousness.

    I augmented my order with a side of chive pancakes and bibb lettuce and set about creating the ideal composition. For the record: Tear off a section of that pancake, add a layer of lettuce, a tiny bit of rice, and a small piece of shredded duck; top with a dab or two of hoisin and a squeeze of sriracha (and maybe a touch of that fat if you’re feeling decadent), a pinch of greens and a sprinkling of crispy shallots, crown with a slice of that perfectly pink breast meat, then wrap and consume. Rinse and repeat.

    It’s not a bargain-basement lunch, but count it as two meals—forgo dinner and have an ice cream cone instead—and you’ll readily forgive the cost. (And yes, it’s true: I can justify pretty much anything, especially in pursuit of the perfect bite.)

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    A Cheese Lover’s Retreat

    by Michael December 3, 2020
    by Michael December 3, 2020

    I was hoping for a couple of days away. Someplace within driving distance of my Connecticut home. Doing something that would get me moving after the long New England winter. Not being…

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    The Food and Wine Trail Through Côte-d’Or

    by Michael November 30, 2020
    by Michael November 30, 2020

    After 25 years in the gourmet food business, my friend Cindi decided on a career change. Yet, in the short week between the end of her first year in law school and…

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    Baby Food Ingredients

    by Michael November 25, 2020
    by Michael November 25, 2020

    Baby food these days are full of different organic fruits and vegetables, but what does each fruit or vegetable do for your baby? Here we created a list of some of the…

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    Baby Food Vitamins

    by Michael November 15, 2020
    by Michael November 15, 2020

    We noticed their is not a lot of resources on the internet laying out exactly the type of of vitamins in baby food. We wanted to create a listing of their importance…

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You can call me by my nickname “Mike” or Just call me Michael. I am a self-taught cook and photographer. I do video making sometimes for my social media and YouTube channel. Nowadays, I am living in Boston. I totally love food and I literally daydream about new recipes. I travel for food and write reviews about that. With that, I love to review things, give tips about cooking and much more.

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