Yu Bo and his wife, Dai Shuang, gained international fame with their restaurant Yu’s Family Kitchen in Chengdu, China; ⁠consuming the painstakingly crafted and beautiful 16 cold dishes that begin ...

This image shows a recipe for Japanese-Style Mapo Tofu from the cookbook "The Wok: Recipies and Techniques," by J. Kenji López-Alt. (J. Kenji López-Alt/W. W. Norton & Company via AP) J. Kenji ...

In a recent state of ire about unfettered capitalism, I unsuccessfully rage-cooked a batch of mapo tofu — the intoxicating Sichuan dish of tofu and minced fatty meat suspended in thin, tingly spiced ...

What is mapo tofu? Always delicious but always a controversial dish: What kind of tofu to use? Pork or beef (or vegetarian)? Corn starch or not? The history is just as exciting, such as the origin of ...

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Famed Chinese chef Yu Bo’s mapo tofu takes the spicy, hearty and pleasingly numbing dish and kicks it into a higher gear. The addition of avocado, a California twist, is — and I don’t always love this ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... I eat a lot of plant-based meals, but often the fact that they don’t contain meat is beside the point. So it’s one of my pet peeves when a recipe, restaurant ...

As an Associate Food Editor, Bridget Hallinan primarily focuses on home cooking content for Food & Wine.com. She writes and edits recipe content, interviews chefs for helpful tips and tricks, and ...

Uncover the origin of this popular and spicy Chinese dish. Have your ingredients ready before you begin - stir fry cooks fast. I love a dish with a good story behind it, and Mapo Tofu is a legendary ...

Our last episode of Chefs at Home wraps this week with another next-level bowl of ramen from Josh Reisner—and this time, it's inspired by mapo tofu, the wonderfully tongue-numbing Sichuan dish.