#francis lam

[halfsoursapphics]

“This is wonderful.”

[collected-stories]

Life has so many amazing intersections. Sometimes I forget. 

[maobidick]

Chinese Stir-Fried Tomatoes and Eggs Recipe

Home-style Chinese food at its simplest and, arguably, tastiest, this dish is the object of nostalgia for many Chinese immigrants (and their children) Well-seasoned eggs scrambled until just-set combine at the last moment with a sweet-tart ginger-tomato sauce Serve with lots of steamed rice

Loved this farewell column by Francis Lam. 

“It’s the kind of dish that people say is the first thing they learned to cook, that fed them when they left home, that inspires sudden and irresistible cravings. But when my hunger struck, I had no idea how to make it. I looked in my Chinese cookbooks, but it appeared in exactly none of them. Calling up my mother to ask her, I knew, would be like asking her to describe how to tie shoelaces: almost impossible to articulate, buried so deep in her muscle memory. In Chinese cooking, this dish is like air, present and invisible.”

[the-grapevine-fires]

some words from an article by francis lam ringing true: https://nyti.ms/2jYKX8C

[thefictionists]

The Mysteries of Manhattan’s Curry Row

Learning to make a Bangladeshi chicken korma from one of East Sixth Street’s original proprietors.

Francis Lam in the New York Times:

"I asked Mubdi about the oddity of “Indian Row” being mostly free of Indian people, and he laughed again. “We had to call the restaurants Indian, because nobody knew what Bangladesh was! We named ours Gandhi, because people knew Gandhi from the movies. Our next place was called Passage to India. That was another movie!”

The milky northern Indian food these restaurants served wasn’t food the cooks grew up with in Bangladesh. “We didn’t even know what a tandoor was,” Mubdi said. Chicken tikka masala was just something customers kept asking for, so someone had to figure out how to make it. “Everyone loved chicken tikka masala!” Mubdi exclaimed. And for a while, it really did seem like everyone: hippies, protofoodies, uptowners, downtowners and out-of-towners all flocked to Indian Row."

[baddeal]

The PARTY starts at 6:30pm and The PANEL Starts at 7pm!!! Join us! Adam Platt and Ed Levine will be on the panel as well!

[mmqd]

Telling my friend Christine that I wasn’t in love with her, but that if I thought it would be okay to, I would be in a heartbeat. I am. She is, too.

- Francis Lam on the most ambitious thing he's ever done in the kitchen