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This week on The Gourmet Club we bring you caviar. Dafne Engstrom, co-founder of boutique caviar house Tsar Nicoulai Caviar , will be joining us by phone to talk about the sturgeon they raise and harvest. The sustainable caviar they produce is served in..
Topics: Maureen Clancy, Robert Whitley, Starbucks, The Gourmet Club, Tsar Nicoulai Caviar, VeeV, Vivanno

I sometimes find I miss the old Woo Chee Chong market near Jasmine in Kearny Mesa. I was so disheartened years ago when the owners gave it up and a Korean market moved in that I rarely went inside. But recently I was out having lunch with a friend next...
Topics: Choco Boy, Chum-Churum, Dumpling Inn, extra soft tofu, First Korean Market, garlic scapes, Jasmine, Saan Soju, Samanco Red Bean Ice Sandwich

Do you know what to do with scapes? Where do the curious names of Chinese dishes like “bean curd made by a pockmarked woman” come from? Should you really refrigerate chocolate chip cookie dough for 36 hours? Lately, there have been some...
Topics: chocolate chip cookies, Culinate, Gourmet, Los Angeles Times, Lynne Rossetto Kasper, scapes, Slate, The New York Times

Recently, I stopped by North Park Produce and was noodling around the packaged foods when I found a bag of unpelted wheat packaged by Sadaf. Looked interesting so I brought it home. I couldn't find any reference to it except that it is used in...
Topics: Henry's Farmers Market, North Park Produce, unpelted wheat, wheat berries

It’s a hot and humid Saturday afternoon in San Diego and I can’t bear the idea of turning on the oven or even the stovetop burners. I don’t even want to grill. I don’t want to be near anything over 78 degrees. This time of year is pretty much..
Topics: ceviche, Continent European Deli, fennel, Foodland, gazpacho, Great News, nopal salad, Northgate Gonzalez, Peggy Knickerbocker, Shangri-La Tropical Passion tea, Sharon's Sorbet, Trader Joe's