Capsaicin
Most of the time, I turn to different drugs at different times of the day. Caffeine in the...
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Tag: Spicy Food
Seeking Heat with Roger Mooking
Chef, musician and television star Roger Mooking’s latest Food Network adventure, ‘Heat Seekers’, pairs him with fellow chef Aaron Sanchez on a tour of the USA’s spiciest dishes from white linen restaurants to food trucks.
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Gamjatang or Pork Bone Soup
Gamjatang is colloquially translated on menus as “pork bone soup”, which makes sense since it’s composed of a broth made from porcine ossein. The menus describe these pig parts as “pig neck”, which appears anatomically correct, though I think it may include some vertebrae below the shoulders. The literal translation of gamjatang, though, is “potato soup”, and spuds make up the second main ingredient (an Asian rarity – at least on this side of the Pacific).
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