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5 foods it’s cheaper to grow – MSN Money

August 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Food, money

Great article.   Growing your own food is great, it’s sustainable (though I think people throw this word around too much), and it’s a fun hobby.  But from a purely financial viewpoint, it often costs more to grow things yourself than it does to just buy them at the store.  Other reasons aside, people don’t always [...]

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Delights and Prejudices » Q & A with Angela Miller, American Cheesemaker

July 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Crosspost, Food

Repost from James Beard’s site.  Pretty cool. Delights and Prejudices » Q & A with Angela Miller, American Cheesemaker.

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Kitchen Myths – debunked!

July 9th, 2010 · No Comments · Food

Shared courtesy of LifeHacker, as usual: Kitchen Myths. Particularly useful is the info about bananas!  Now let’s see how long it takes the Interwebs to debunk this debunker.  You know it will happen. Great info, though!

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Keeping Kitchen Staples Fresh – Cooks Illustrated

June 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Food

Here is a link to an article on the Cooks Illustrated site with a bunch of tips for keeping the various kitchen staples (flour, sugar, butter, &tc.) fresh, and how long they will last.  I had never thought to keep butter in the freezer before!  Keeping Kitchen Staples Fresh – Cooks Illustrated.  The tips could [...]

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Equipment: How to Buy a Wok | Serious Eats

June 5th, 2010 · No Comments · Food

I think pretty much any wok beats the $8 Ikea one I purchased many moons ago.  The thing WORKS, but how well?  Not very, trust me. Equipment: How to Buy a Wok | Serious Eats.

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Home Cooking for Sale – NYTimes.com

June 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Food

Interesting article about the people who sell their home cooked food items at flea markets and other places.  It’s going to be very regulated soon, but up until now it’s really flown under the radar.  I hope in places outside of the metro New York, Boston, &tc. still get a change to build this up [...]

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Summer’s Best Food and Cookbooks: Bourdain, Emeril and More – WSJ.com

May 28th, 2010 · No Comments · Books, Food

Two of my favorite things: Books and Food!  (drr – same as everyone…).  Anyway, here’s a list that was shared from the James Beard foundation and featured on wsj.com:  Summer’s Best Food and Cookbooks: Bourdain, Emeril and More – WSJ.com. If you can’t afford Bourdain’s new book, you can check out his older Kitchen Confidential [...]

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Kitchen Window: Cilantro, The Controversial Herb : NPR

May 28th, 2010 · No Comments · Food

I don’t care what anyone says.  If I’m wrong about cilantro being awesome, then I don’t want to be right.  I made a post in the past about Cilantro, but this article today on NPR’s site reminded me of how great the stuff is.  It totally rounds out my pizza sauce. Kitchen Window: Cilantro, The [...]

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The N.Y. Times on pizza dough

May 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Food

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/19/dining/19pizza.html?pagewanted=1 The best part of the article comes at the very end: “Someday, you might build a wood-burning oven — right after you start making your own vinegar, raising honeybees and churning butter with cream from cows you milk. Until then, you can make pizzeria-quality pizza with the perfectly normal oven in your kitchen.” The [...]

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Pic(s) Of The Day April 25, 2010

April 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Food, Photography

Brought these wicked devilish eggs to a dinner thing last night.  Good stuff.  Trying to get better with my food photos.

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