In 2017, when a line cook at Superiority Burger taught me the classic Chinese technique for smashing cucumbers, I felt I'd finally been given the keys to the cucumber-salad kingdom.
Cucumbers return for a cooling contrast (because cucumbers and salmon are always friends) and feta makes the dish rich and tangy.
Eric says the kimchi stands in for bacon, cooked down in a hot pan with butter and sesame oil to mellow its sharp, tangy edges while concentrating its salty savoriness.
This rum-spiked cake from the spice maven Lior Lev Sercarz is richly fragrant and bathed in an orange glaze that reminds us of the pleasures of the season.
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