Awarded And Applauded

Renee Schettler and David Leite take their constant quibbling and opposing viewpoints to the topic of taking a cookbook versus a computer into the kitchen.

David pursues one of his great passions: fried clams. But not just any fried clams. The fried clams of his youth, the kind with plump, juicy bellies. And there’s a story behind finding them.

Being a supertaster ain’t all that it’s cracked up to be—especially if you still have to eat your broccoli. David explains and complains.

Depressed, David turns to bread making and finds that dough holds no grudges, turning out lovely even after the worst of manglings.

Why make homemade ketchup? Because you can. And, as David explains, because no one can tell you that you shouldn’t. No one.

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• 30 M
• 2 H
• 55

Carol Penn-Romine takes us back to her childhood and a secular southern sacrament that’s still solemnly revered.

David recounts how he destroyed two Thanksgiving desserts and, in so doing, almost burned down his house.

Sydney Meers knows Southern fried chicken. Thanks to him and his grandmother Winnie Lee Johnson’s recipe, so can you. Lorraine Eaton divulges.

• Quick Glance
• 30 M
• 1 H
• 3

You haven’t truly experienced cherry season ’til you’ve owned a cherry tree. Darlene West has the purple-stained hands—as well as the perfect clafouti recipe—to prove it.

The idea that food can heal all was tested when David cooked for a family member, hoping to help, to persuade, to no avail.