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This past year, I improved a lot as a cook. I have spent hours in my home kitchen honing skills and fortifying…
Nov 19
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Cranberry sauce is the definitive flavor of Thanksgiving, and yet I posit that it’s just as divisive as cilantro.…
Nov 12
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The pimento cheese sandwich at the famed Augusta National golf course is from another era. For starters, it costs…
Oct 22
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About a year ago during an interview, Peruvian born chef Ricardo Zarate told me, “I want to take down the Italians.”…
Sep 21
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Aug 25
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Wine has become very horny. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but every bottle of red you see on shelves lately is…
Aug 18
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Remember potlucks? Boy, do I miss potlucks. Specifically, the fierce competition and tense atmosphere that arises…
Aug 3
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Jul 27
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Oyster purists will sneer at grilled oysters. To cook an oyster is to ruin it, they say. Oh, you’ll hear them speak…
Jun 24
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America’s carb-shaming, protein-worshipping proclivities are relatively new. But since we’ve embraced keto and…
Jun 1
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Salad for breakfast seems like a paradoxical concept whose design exists solely to annoy you. Salad is, after all,…
May 22
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I love reading cookbooks because the level of commitment is low. Reading something cover to cover is asking a lot…
May 13
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“Being vegan is a first-world phenomenon.” That’s a famous quote from Anthony Bourdain, and I’ve always struggled…
May 4
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With its proximity to knives and fire, the kitchen is the last place anyone should be having an impromptu dance…
Apr 29
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It’s artichoke season now, and if you’re like me, you’ve done your best to walk right past them at the grocery…
Apr 17
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Who do you think is the best living chef? I don’t know if it’s Gordon Ramsay, but he has to at least enter the…
Apr 16
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Anytime I see a bowl of ground-up grain goo, I think of only one word: porridge. Porridge (aka gruel) is a mythical…
Apr 15
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Recipes can sometimes come off as authoritarian. Measure this and do this. Here are your instructions that you must…
Apr 7
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The last comedy show I did before we all went into isolation was at Cap City Comedy Club in Austin, Texas, where I…
Mar 31
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It’s summer 2010, the end of the month, and food costs are high. One of the sous chefs at Pittsburgh’s Pennsylvania…