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Kitchen Miscellanea

Feast or Fetish

April 23, 2010
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I’ve been using my little break from technology to catch up on my reading.  Or more correctly, my re-reading.  Like any book lover, I love finding new writers.  But I get just as much pleasure visiting with old friends.  Recently I’ve spent time with Pat Conroy, Michael Lee West, Clyde Edgerton, and Cassandra King, all authors with a decided Southern [...]

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Kitchen Doodads, Gadgets and Gizmos

February 26, 2010
Kitchen gadgets

Do we really need lots of specialized equipment and gadgets to be good cooks?  I find the more time I spend in the kitchen, the less of my clever gewgaws I actually use.  I sometimes open the utensil drawer in the kitchen and wonder what I was thinking.  What compelled me to buy these things?  I have not one, but two of those weird claw-like [...]

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Why I Cook

February 22, 2010
Why I Cook

Michael Ruhlman, a fantastic writer and collaborator on the best cookbook we received this Christmas, posted a challenge to bloggers to write about why we cook.  You can read it here.  Never one to back away from a challenge, at least where food is concerned, here I go.  Though the more I think about it, the more I [...]

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Cool Cake

January 12, 2010
Cool Cake

This is why our kids should be in the kitchen.
Only an 11-year-old could create such a wild, wonderful, fantastic Sputnik of a cake.  I wish I had half Audrey’s imagination and fearlessness in the kitchen.  Though such fearlessness can have distinctly leaden consequences when baking. 

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