When I first moved to NYC, I discovered a lovely place with simple Asian food called Marnie's Noodle Shop in Greenwich Village. I fell in love with Marnie Henricksson's Cold Noodle Sampler and never looked back. It paired a serving of cold sesame noodles (topped with cucumber and white chicken meat) and noodles with Indonesian peanut sauce (topped with green apple). I went downtown some time after moving up to Yonkers, and was heartbroken to discover the shop had closed. (Woe!)
I have never been able to find either a sesame noodle sauce or a peanut sauce I liked as much as Marnie's, although I have found many delicious examples of both, since then.
Fast-forward a number of years. I had idly searched online in the past to see if anyone else remembered the noodle shop in Greenwich Village. My search proved fruitless until today, when I discovered that for several of the intervening years, Ms Henricksson had operated a restuarant ("Marnie's Asian Kitchen") in Putnam Valley, since closed, and a pop-up takeout restaurant ("Marnie's Asian Kitchen To Go") in Beacon, both in the Hudson Valley. While today Henricksson operates a mattress and home goods store called Hudson Natural in Beacon, she has also published a cookbook called "Everyday Asian". I bought the Kindle edition.
I have found the recipes for both sauces, and I am over the moon 8)
I've read elsewhere that Henricksson had traveled through a number of Asian countries and, upon settling in America, integrated her knowledge of different types of Asian cooking with ingredients which were readily available in American supermarkets. The result is probably not a pure Chinese, Thai, or Indonesian taste, but a synthesis which nevertheless respects the use of the freshest ingredients possible.
I'm looking forward to exploring my old favorites, and intriguing new dishes, with such an experienced guide.
https://www.amazon.com/Everyday-Asian-Noodles-Barbecues-Favorite/dp/0060084669/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1500693167&sr=8-1&keywords=Everyday+Asian
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