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Do Try This At Home: 3 Korean Banchan (Side Dishes) In One Pot

Dan Gray is a restaurateur and food blogger in Seoul, South Korea. Elise Hu/NPR hide caption

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Do Try This At Home: 3 Korean Banchan (Side Dishes) In One Pot

July 5, 2015 • If you've ever eaten at a Korean restaurant, you're used to the endless side dishes that come out with the meal. They're called banchan, and they're remarkably simple to make for yourself.

Do Try This At Home: 3 Korean Banchan (Side Dishes) In One Pot

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Cooking With Emoji: We're Taking Eggplant Back From The Bros

April 10, 2015 • The eggplant emoji has become a favorite of salacious sexters. To rescue its sullied rep, we turn to our emoji keyboards and conjure up recipes to highlight the fruit's, ahem, culinary attributes.

Docs Discover Drug-Spiked Eggplant Sent Beijing Diners To Hospital

Don't blame the braised eggplant. Two people reportedly poisoned a Beijing restaurant's eggplant dishes, similar to the one shown here, in an attempt to boost the business of a rival eatery. yoppy/Flickr.com hide caption

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Docs Discover Drug-Spiked Eggplant Sent Beijing Diners To Hospital

January 2, 2013 • Chinese officials say two people intentionally spiked a restaurant's eggplant stir-fries with a toxic dose of a blood pressure drug. The poisoning sent 80 diners to the hospital, where doctors figured out the cause. They all eventually recovered.

An Eggplant Of A Different Color Can Be Just As Sweet

Move over, purple, make way for orange eggplants. Maggie Starbard/NPR hide caption

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An Eggplant Of A Different Color Can Be Just As Sweet

July 13, 2012 • Scarlet eggplants are the wilder cousins of the ubiquitous purple oblong eggplants found everywhere, and they're starting to show up in more places in the U.S. A D.C. chef shows us how we can use their bright orange color to its fullest effect.