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March 12, 2008 03:07 PM EDT --
A few years ago I purchased American Classics by the editors of Cook's Illustrated magazine. The book is a good modern reference to such traditional favorites as Chicken Pot Pie, Parker . . .
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February 16, 2008 07:42 PM EST --
A s a Southern cook, I have an obligation to attempt to keep track of cookbooks purportedly offering Southern food. This means that The Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook by Matt and Ted Lee was on my list . . .
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March 26, 2008 11:42 AM EDT --
O nce upon a time I was the lead singer in an Indonesian rock band in Cairo, Egypt. Bear with me, it's a bit complicated.
At the time my parents were teaching at the American University in Cairo . . .
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April 21, 2008 03:58 PM EDT --
B est I can figure is that I have a food face. I was in the market the other day, looking for a good bunch of asparagus when the woman next to me asked, "How do you cook asparagus?" She went . . .
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May 09, 2008 02:20 PM EDT --
T here are foods that make you wonder how they came to be eaten. For instance, raw olives are phenomenally bitter. They have to be cured in salt for several weeks before they're edible. Who figured . . .
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June 12, 2008 12:40 PM EDT --
S upposedly Beef Stroganoff was created by a chef in Saint Petersburg for a culinary competition held in the 1890s. Although the dish was almost certainly named for Count Paul Stroganoff, a Russian noble . . .
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September 23, 2008 06:24 PM EDT --
I just renewed my subscription to Cook's Illustrated, my favorite cooking magazine. For years and years before the World Wide Web and before cookbooks had become one of the largest categories . . .
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January 04, 2009 11:15 AM EST --
T here are a few recipes I make once a year and only once a year, every year. They all meet my definition of "seriously good" and yet, are so loaded with things like saturated fats that . . .
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February 13, 2008 03:47 PM EST --
T here are a few recipes I make once a year and only once a year, every year. They all meet my definition of "seriously good" and yet, are so loaded with things like saturated fats that I limit . . .
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February 20, 2008 05:10 PM EST --
S ometimes cooking and eating are a matter of faith. Or, perhaps more accurately, a calculated risk. I had a three pound pork loin in my freezer that I needed to do something with but I wanted something . . .
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April 11, 2008 05:31 PM EDT --
I pictured a mound of overlapping circles of golden-brown potatoes strewn with sprigs of green. Instead, I ended up with a single circle of potatoes surrounding a bird's nest of potato strips. Such . . .
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April 28, 2008 11:28 AM EDT --
Y ou may not have noticed, but food prices actually started going up over two years ago. I was acutely aware of the trend because I was watching the average food costs for my clients climb from 30 percent . . .
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May 12, 2008 10:29 AM EDT --
"S ustainability: of, relating to, or being a method of harvesting or using a resource so that the resource is not depleted or permanently damaged." - Meriam-Webster Online .
The . . .
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July 22, 2008 12:43 PM EDT --
I n 1968 I didn't get arrested for skinny-dipping. It was a near thing. It was August and some friends and I were at an anti-Vietnam war rally and when the heat got to be too much we decided to take . . .
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September 10, 2008 12:58 PM EDT --
S implicity. When I was a younger cook I sought out the most complicated, convoluted, and difficult recipes to explore. A recipe with dozens of steps was a challenge eagerly sought. An opportunity to . . .
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September 19, 2008 11:44 AM EDT --
I 'm not a regular watcher of Tony Bourdain's No Reservations . I think Bourdain's a better writer than TV host, and his show is agonizingly predictable: he eats some weird stuff, talks about . . .
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October 16, 2008 02:08 PM EDT --
A s they say, I've been around the stove a few times.
Well, actually, I've never heard anyone say that. But you get my gist: my car could use a coat of paint, or that coffee's starting . . .
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April 07, 2009 10:37 AM EDT --
M y stomach is rumbling. Well, not really rumbling so much as gurgling, burbling, growling, and I could swear it just made a barking kind of noise. (Frankly, the barking has me a bit worried.) You see, . . .
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April 09, 2008 02:38 PM EDT --
S pring arrived here in Knoxville this past weekend. I was out running errands two days ago (Before Spring) and it was rainy and chilly. The lawns were still rather brown and although the daffodils, hydrangeas, . . .
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April 19, 2008 12:16 PM EDT --
Y ou may have noticed that I'm now a Guide ( Cooking for Two ) at About.com. This brings the number of regular jobs I hold to somewhere between six and eight depending on how I count them (and how . . .
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