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cooking blogs
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Perhaps the highlight of my Memorial Day weekend was this whiting escabeche. Served on my roof overlooking an unusually quiet Brooklyn thoroughfare, with a loaf of crusty bread and a bottle of wine, this escabeche ushered in summer -- not with a big bang, but with a mixture of deep and arrest...
(Courtesy of the Library of Congress. Click on images for more information.)If you live in New York, as I do, and frequent the kinds of restaurants that serve seasonal food, as I sometimes do, you can't escape ramps in May, even if you wanted to.Ramp pancakes, ramp pesto, charred ramp aioli, pickled...
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It’s like killing your own baby -LA Weekly’s Squid Ink reports on the Baldwin Park (also known as the birthplace of the drive-through) moratorium on drive-throughs For the East Coasters suffering from a Heat Wave! Serious Eats’ iced coffee round-up The ever adorable Cakespy offers ...
The only thing better than pasta on sandwiches? Potatoes on sandwiches! A few standouts quickly emerge - First there is the breakfast variety – a little eggs, some cheese, maybe a little meat, and some AM potatoes. As recently reported by the Village Voice’s Fork in the Road blog, this...
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A simple gin sour given a boost of character and flavor by the addition of celery bitters, Stephan's Sour is a classically styled drink from Seattle bartender Murray Stenson, winner of the "American Bartender of the Year" award at last week's Tales of the Cocktail. From Recipes For...
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Zucchini has to be one of my favorite summer vegetables and this weekend I was in luck as the farmers market was overflowing with them! Of all of the many things that there are to do with zucchini, the one that I keep coming back to time and time again is the classic zucchini bread which I end up m...
As I walk by the bananas in the grocery store, the often overlooked plantains cry out "use us, use us" and I put my head down and quickly move along regretting that I never do anything with them. With the Cuban burgers on the menu I was thinking about Caribbean sides and I remembered something ab...
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I have to tell all of you about this contest that Amano Chocolate has going on. Amano makes the best single origin chocolates that I have ever tasted - each dark chocolate bar is distinct in flavor and highlights the flavors (fruitiness, richness, earthiness) that comes naturally to the cocoa produc...
On a recent trip to Napa, California to Camalie Vineyards, a family vineyard and winery owned by my friend Mark, Tina and I celebrated this year's Cabernet harvest and crush. When we were ready to leave, Mark suggested we try a new restaurant that his friend just opened - Elements. It sounded like a...
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When I was growing up we didn't have soda or candy in the house, or junk food like Twinkies, but we did have cookies. Sometimes my mom made cookies from scratch, and sometimes she bought them. The thing is, some cookies need to be fresh and homemade, like chocolate chip cookies or oatmeal cookies. T...
When I was in Louisville Kentucky a couple of weeks ago I tried the famous Hot Brown sandwich at the Brown Hotel. It's a rich combination of dreamy Mornay sauce, hearty turkey, a couple of tomato wedges and crisp bacon on top. Broiling the sandwich makes the tomatoes and sauce even tastier. But it's...
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