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Article: Dinner Tonight: The secret to perfect sesame noodles? Natural peanut butter.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- July 26, 2004
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Byline: Bill Daley
Sometimes the simplest dishes raise the most fuss. So it is with cold sesame noodles. For years I toiled without success to find just the right zing, only to find the answer not in pricey tahini (sesame seed) pastes but in plain old peanut butter.
Admittedly, the peanut butter in question wasn't Skippy or Jif. Rather it was a high-quality, all-natural product. And it was jazzed up by the late Barbara Tropp, a San Francisco author and restaurateur, with plenty of raw garlic, sugar and hot red chili paste. I was addicted at first bite.
Tropp was often called the Julia Child of Chinese food for her ability to soothe, encourage ...