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Homely Cooking: The Beauty of the Ugly Celery Root
Post | David Leite on 11.16.09 | 3 Comments
Homely Cooking: The Beauty of the Ugly Celery Root

Chefs and home cooks agree: celery root is an ugly–but tasty–vegetable. David Leite discovers some of the many uses for the Ugly Betty of the produce world.

Carving Away the Mystery of the Thanksgiving Turkey
Post | David Leite on 11.08.09 | No Comment
Carving Away the Mystery of the Thanksgiving Turkey

Confused about fresh turkey, frozen turkey, kosher turkey, organic turkey, free-range turkey, and basted turkey? This turkey guide explains it all for you.

Whether Fresh or Canned, Pumpkin Takes the Cake
Post | David Leite on 11.01.09 | One Comment
Whether Fresh or Canned, Pumpkin Takes the Cake

This pumpkin cake with maple cream cheese frosting, well, takes the cake. Canned pumpkin makes it easy, the cream cheese frosting makes it delicious.

Baby Boy A
Post | Jess Thomson on 09.29.09 | 21 Comments
Baby Boy A

Before our son, Graham, was born, I started daydreaming about his culinary education. His first course always seemed obvious: My firstborn would be a boob man from the start. Yes, I’d teach it myself, with equipment provided and fuel replenished by nature. Only it never occurred to me in all the hours spent obsessing over what foods he might prefer later, or whether he’d be unreasonably picky, that there might be a glitch—like being born unable to eat.

Reserve Some Frosting, Stir in Nuts for Glamour
Post | Paulette Licitra on 09.07.09 | One Comment
Reserve Some Frosting, Stir in Nuts for Glamour

This year we said no presents. My mom and my sister. My aunt and my uncle. My cousins. It’s not that we’ve been taking humbug lessons. All year we give each other “presents.” When we …

The Author and the Wonderful, Horrible, No Fun, Very Good Day
Post | David Leite on 09.04.09 | 6 Comments
The Author and the Wonderful, Horrible, No Fun, Very Good Day

The worst moment in a writer’s life is the day he receives his first rejection slip. The second worst is the day his first book is published.
The former because it only takes one person—one person—to …

Alfajores: The Family Cookie
Post | Ana Schwartzman on 08.17.09 | 3 Comments
Alfajores: The Family Cookie

I grew up in Fullerton, California, a continent away from Buenos Aires, Argentina, the city my mother’s side of the family calls home, and where she spent her first 30 years. This meant that while …

Some Like It Pink
Post | David Leite on 08.13.09 | 2 Comments
Some Like It Pink

Hostess Sno Balls always remind me of Cheryl Swanson, our high school pep-squad leader who was fond of tight, hot-pink Angora sweaters. It was the late ’70s and the retro ’50s look was in, so …

The Pan Snob
Post | David Leite on 06.28.09 | 11 Comments
The Pan Snob

It has recently come to my attention that I am a notorious, card-carrying bigot. My prejudice was so deeply rooted — and deeply hidden — that I thought I was a pretty accepting, politically correct …

A Sweet History: Portugal’s Pastéis de Tentúgal
Post | David Leite on 06.18.09 | One Comment
A Sweet History: Portugal’s Pastéis de Tentúgal

Look down to change the radio station while driving west on Route N111 in central Portugal, and it’s possible to buzz by the tiny, nearly empty village of Tentúgal. Composed of  small cluster of streets, …

Speck Mountain
Post | James Sturz on 06.16.09 | No Comment
Speck Mountain

Last October, Sonja Profanter stood smiling in the crisp Alpine air, her cheeks as shiny and round as the local apples. Six foot tall in her socks, she was easily dwarfed by the jagged Dolomite …