18 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
This corn fried rice is a force of flavor, thanks to salt, sugar and MSG
'I always joke that salt, sugar, MSG is the Chinese trinity seasoning mix,' chef Calvin Eng told me recently. The trio is so integral to his style of Cantonese American cooking that he named his cookbook, written with Phoebe Melnick, after it. 'While each ingredient can stand on its own, mixed together you have a seasoning powerhouse,' Eng writes in the introduction to 'Salt Sugar MSG.'
