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August 21, 2009
Iron Chef — Sunday, August 30, 6pm and 9pm PST
An email came in this morning from the Iron Chef people, telling me that the long-awaited episode has been moved up! It will air, for sure, on Sunday, August 30, at 6pm and 9m west coast time, and 9 pm eastern time. It looks like I’m finally allowed to say who the contestants were. It’s [...]
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August 19, 2009
On the Massive Importance of Salt
It occurs to me that, as much as I’ve talked about salt in the past few years, I’ve never really laid out a totally coherent/comprehensive post dedicated to this ingredient many of us take for granted. Forgive me for the length, please – but I would like to get all of this on table, so to [...]
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August 15, 2009
The End of Overeating
It’s not often that I read a book that begins to reach out, encloses itself around my neck, and starts to squeeze. Dozens of powerful ideas are like tentacles that not only grip, but begin to work their ways inside my throat. This isn’t as unpleasant as it sounds; I immediately know that I’m reading [...]
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August 11, 2009
The Art of the Quick, Tasty Lunch
More often than not these days, around noon or 1 pm I find myself rooting around the fridge’s vegetable drawer in search of something for lunch. The goal is to have something on the table in 10 minutes, or roughly the same amount of time it would take to nuke and serve something frozen (not [...]
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August 4, 2009
Michael Pollan on How American Cooking Became a Spectator Sport
Well the maestro has done it again. Michael Pollan has a lovely screed in last Sunday’s NY Times Magazine called “Out of the Kitchen, Onto the Couch: How American Cooking Became a Spectator Sport, and What We Lost Along the Way.” For anyone perplexed at the massive rise of viewers of the Food Network, and [...]
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August 1, 2009
The Pressure Is On! Star Anise Turkey
Well, after WAY too long an absence, the pressure cooker reentered my life today! For years I did have a reasonably modern one but it was aluminum, got pretty scruffy looking, and didn’t make it with the last move, and I vowed to upgrade to a stainless, larger one (I got the eight-quart capacity one). [...]
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July 30, 2009
Enlighten Me, Smartphone People!
Dearest breakaway cooks,
I’ve lately been a convert to the Palm Pre. I like it better than the Iphone for three chief reasons: it feels better in the hand, it has a way cheaper plan, and you can open tons of apps simultaneously on Sprint’s fat pipe with no slowdown in speed. The only downside to [...]
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July 27, 2009
Semi-dried Tomatoes with Extra Umami
I got a HUGE — on the order of 15 pounds — bag of tomatoes at the end of the market in San Rafael last week for five bucks. “Fill up your canvas bag for $5!” shouted the man who wanted to go home empty, so I felt obligated to help him out.
The flavor was [...]
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July 24, 2009
Oyako Udon — A Quick and Very Tasty Soup
“Oyako” in Japanese means, literally, “parent-child.” You have to love a language that describes a dish of chicken and egg this way. Oyako-donburi is a classic Japanese homestyle dish that sautes/braises chicken slices and some veggies in dashi, to which an egg is added, and the ensuing medley is served over hot rice. But why [...]
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July 21, 2009
Thoughts on Feeding Nine Billion People — A Terrific Discussion
It’s kind of staggering to imagine that the world’s population is set to rise by 50 percent, to some nine billion people, by 2050. That’s a big enough challenge for global agriculture, but add to that the fact that incomes are rising in most places where populations are increasing the most (India, China), along with [...]
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