uncooked corn vermicelli (falooda sev) or rice vermicelli.

"I remember John Shields at Town House in Chilhowie, Virginia, had a beautiful salad of shaved vegetables made into little swirls," Krader says."And I'd talked a friend into driving me 100 miles to get to this godforsaken place, and I remember the salad tasting as good as it looked.

Another year, there was Kevin Fink at Emmer & Rye, doing bucatini with a carbonara and grinding his own wheat.The pasta had an amazing chew, and he put a little tomato water in the broth, and it was like I'd never had a carbonara before.".When Krader sat down at the counter at Best New Chef '06 David Chang's Momofuku, she recalls, "I ate a rice cake dish that was simultaneously chewy and melt-in-your-mouth.

There was gochujang, and mirin that gave it this delicate edge, but it still punched you in the face with its heat.It looked like nothing.

But then you take a bite, and take in its multitude of textures, and realize that your eyes have deceived you.".

For most of the first two decades, the discovery of new chefs was an analog affair.These freezer aisle staples aren’t just convenient, tasty bites; they also reflect childhood and even some midnight memories.. For our editor-in-chief, Hunter Lewis, frozen pizza snacks are chronologically embedded in his memory and taste buds as he recalls, “Stouffer's French Bread Pizzas taste like high school.

Totino's like late nights in college.And Digiorno, well, I dropped a molten hot one upside down on my foot in my early twenties and had to call in sick to my newspaper job because the burns were so bad.”.

Many people are attached to a specific brand of frozen.snacks, with senior commerce editor Danielle St. Pierre detailing, “I definitely put down my fair share of Totino's growing up watching ‘Nick at Nite.’”.