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Gourmet Getaway Food Journal
Itinerary: Two ethnic meals (sushi, jerk chicken with coconut rice and beans), one night.
Supplies: Two Global Grub cooking kits.

• 6 p.m. Head to market to stock up on additional ingredients not found in pantry.
• 6:30 p.m. Rehydrate habaneros and mix up a marinade.
• 6:45 p.m. Uh oh, no blender? We don’t surrender — and mash with a fork instead.
• 7 p.m. Crank up reggae music to set the mood for rice cooking. (We skip the beans. We’re lazy.)

We're running out of excuses to NOT cook at home, and here's one more. These easy kits have nearly everything you need, including straightforward recipes to prepare your own Moroccan tagines, tamales and even sushi. Buy organic, hormone-free meats and produce to up the flavor ante.

My wife and I are sporadically ambitious cooks. For each of her well-executed attempts at Chinese ginger pork cake or Thai lemongrass soup, a dark cloud lingers from one of my far less successful forays into, say, enchiladas verdes (not pretty).

So it was with a bit of trepidation that we tested Global Grub, a new line of prepackaged ethnic cooking kits developed by Walnut Creek resident Carley Sheehy. These are tailor-made for adventurous—but gun-shy—home cooks like me...

If you live in any major city in America, you've probably tried sushi. Heck, if you live in any small town in America, you've probably tasted the wildly popular Japanese dish. But have you ever made it at home? Let Global Grub show you how.

If you're craving Mexican or Moroccan but don't know where to start, Global Grub has a kit to get you cooking. Their ethnic cuisine kits come with a recipe, non-perishable ingredients that are pre-measured and detailed instructions on how to make your meal of choice. Each kit...

When it comes to cooking the food from another culture, the ingredients and techniques can be unfamiliar. Going to a foreign country and taking a cooking class is great, but not a readily accessible opportunity for most. Fortunately there are local cooking classes and cooking kits.

Recently launched Global Grub offers cooking kits with extremely well written instructions that will help you succeed in making things like...