#seafood-cooking

#seafood-cooking

The best cookbooks of 2025 inspired us to return to the kitchen again and again. They brought us not only inspiration and deliciousness but solace, beauty, delight and a sense of home in a challenging year, especially for Los Angeles. Our list of favorites defined connections to a place, whether geographical - Bahrain, Paris, a Palestinian garden - or reframed as a world view such as the legend of Turtle Island,

Crab rice is a prized dish of the Gullah Geechee people of the Carolina Lowcountry, a region of the United States that is synonymous with seafood. Crab rice, we're making today super simple, super easy and ingredients that you can get in your local grocery store. My garlic's going in last, and the reason why I'm adding the garlic in last is that the raw garlic is going to give it a little bit of spice. Take your hands, feel the rice.

"The Chinese method of steaming fish is to steam a whole fish or filet over boiling water on a steamer. The steaming water needs to be boiling on high heat, to ensure maximum steam vapor."