The most recognizable rice cake in the West is Japanese mochi, but there is a wide and wonderful world of Asian rice cakes, all possessing symbolic meaning in the context of Lunar New Year.

So when she began writing her debut cookbook, Breaking Bao, she found a way to spin them into something new: Ferrero mochi bomboloncini. Lam’s recipe is a reinterpretation of her mom’s jian ...

The mochi dish at State Bird Provisions in San Francisco is close to my heart, as it was one of the first dishes I created for the restaurant. It was born out of a kombu cooking challenge that ...