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A ruffly strip of well-seethed bacon delivers a clean crack that in Japan is called kari kari, as opposed to shaki shaki (a gushy bite, as of an apple right off the tree), saku saku (a fracture cushioned by richness, as found in buttery cookies and chicharrón--- pork skins dropped in hot oil, where they expand like clouds), gari gari (a hard crunch, like ice, that taxes the jaw), bari bari (the kind of delicate shattering epitomized by a rice cracker), and pari pari (the even more evanescent sha
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― The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2024
― The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2024
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I ignored their banter because my mind was still stuck on what Jae said about creating something crunchy but not too sweet with the honey butter. We didn't do deep-frying at the Brew-ha Cafe, so that was out. I could maybe incorporate our honey butter into a biscotti, but that didn't really excite me. Unless...
"Biscocho!"
"Is that like a Filipino version of eureka? You look like you've had some kind of revelation," Adeena said.
"I mean, I did have a lightbulb moment, but biscocho isn't some exc
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― Death and Dinuguan
― Death and Dinuguan