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A few years ago, the New York Times’ Mark Bittman introduced the world to “No Knead Bread“, creating a little culinary phenomenon across the country. People became tickled pink by the idea that you could create beautiful, golden-crusted bread without having to knead dough for an agonizing 10 to 20 minutes beforehand. (To date, Bittman’s article [...]
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I’m obsessed with Sunset magazine. I turn to them for their fantastic day-trip ideas (including oyster eating in Tomalas Bay and off-the-beaten-path hikes in Big Sur), design inspiration for my ongoing home DIY projects, and quick n’ easy recipe ideas that often highlight in-season ingredients. What I usually avoid is the gardening sections. I don’t [...]
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Thanks to my friend who runs the fabulous SF-based HiddenMenu, I was invited to join a newly formed book club called the Food for Thought Book Club. For the first meeting – which is just a few short weeks away so I’m in for some serious power reading — we’re reading Raj Patel’s Stuffed and [...]
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The funny thing about starting a blog about food is that people assume you are a much better chef than you actually are. You are relied upon for handy tips, asked to come up with recipe suggestions on-the-spot and, most importantly, are expected to not mess up in the kitchen. And if you do, it [...]
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By now most of you probably know where you will be enjoying your Thanksgiving feast, who is cooking what, and have started mentally preparing for the excessive family time and chit-chat with distant relatives who you haven’t seen since last year’s festivities. And if you are like me, you are still considered the [...]
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It looks like swine flu isn’t the only epidemic sweeping the country this Fall…there’s a shortage of pumpkins! According to Saveur, many farmers are nervous that their pumpkin crops won’t be ripe in time for Fall festivities because foul weather and diseases damaged their seedlings.
For somebody who delights in all things pumpkin (pumpkin pie, pumpkin [...]
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It turns out that Jaime Oliver, best known as The Naked Chef, is more than just a kooky celebrity chef. If you didn’t watch his old Food Network show, imagine Julie Child on crack…he would flail around the kitchen, knocking over olive oil bottles and would mix everything by hand (i.e. bare hands tossing lettuce [...]
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Dr. David Kessler, the former head of the Food and Drug Administration who is well known for his attack on Big tobacco, writes a fascinating book about American society’s struggle to say no to food. The book examines how the combination of fat, sugar and salt have taken hold of us, and with the help [...]
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If you peruse Gawker, the New York Post, or media blogs in general, you were probably vaguely aware that one of Condé Nast’s food books (they own Gourmet and Bon Appetit) was in danger of not surviving the “rough economic times”. Yet the recent announcement that Gourmet was shutting it’s doors after 68 years of [...]
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