Thai food in America and several long-considered but barely filtered thoughts on the subject (plus, of course, recipes)
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September 2026 Newsletter
This dispatch of The Epestle is going to be brief. This is the time when those of you in school or have children going back to school are busy getting ready for another school year. Me? This is when I start tracking apple picking dates of e...
This Dish Stinks
In three ways
When you scroll down to the end, you’ll find my recipe for the dish you see here. But the recipe isn’t the purpose of this post. This post is about one thing: a dish that stinks because it wants to.
Granular, Savory, Crispy, Beefy
Delicious
The chief virtue of grill marks on meat is aesthetic. I’ve come to see them as something we do simply because everyone else seems to do it too. And because everyone else does it, even if you don’t wa…
Nam Phrik #6: Pla Ra Relish
I’ve been thinking about writing about jaeo pla ra (fermented fish relish) ever since I had the excellent version of it at Noodles Party in Chicago for the first time nearly a year ago.
I’ve been thinking about writing about jaeo pla ra (f...
The Kind of Thai Restaurant I Like These Days
I’m scared when people ask me—as they often do—to name the best Thai restaurant in Chicago. It’s the kind of simple, straightforward question that people don’t usually expect to cause such vexation of spirit. But it does. To overthinkers. T...
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