Farideh is making Ash-e Reshteh, a thick and herbaceous Persian noodle soup with four kinds of flavorful toppings. The soup, which is traditionally served in springtime for Nowruz, the Persian New Year, is made with copious amounts of greens like spinach, cilantro, parsley, and scallions. The soup is packed with green lentils, kidney beans, navy beans, and chickpeas, as well as enriched flour noodles. She tops off the soup with homemade mint oil, liquid kashk, fried garlic, and carmelized onions. Check out the recipe here: https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjpea3/ash-e-reshteh-recipe... Read More

Deuki Hong, founder and chef of Sunday Hospitality Group, is in his backyard cooking Jajangmyeon. This black bean noodle dish is a Koreanified take on a Shandong dish brought over by the Chinese in the early 1900s. Deuki starts by frying chunjang, a Korean black bean paste, to create a sticky and glossy sauce. He then stir fries pork shoulder, pork belly, and a variety of vegetables like onion, zucchini and cabbage before bringing the dish together with thick flour noodles.... Read More