It’s more American than apple pie. The English brought apple pie to American shores. Native Americans taught the earliest European immigrants to parch, grind and mix corn with boiling water, and then bake it into thin cakes. They weren’t nearly as tasty as the cornbread into which they evolved, but made good staples for hunters […]
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Curry party
“Hey, let’s have a curry party!” Greg Hurt said. Peter and I looked at each other and smiled. We didn’t know what a curry party was, but it was sure to be fun and have delicious food. In the 1990s we had a group of friends I thought of as our British Commonwealth buddies. Most […]
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Reading recipes
It’s one of my biggest fears, something that sometimes even keeps me awake at night: Writing recipes that are inaccurate, incomplete or incomprehensibly worded. When I started teaching cooking classes, I was determined to write accurate, easily understood recipes. Cooking involves all of the senses, not just taste. I knew what I meant when I […]
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All hail, kale
Suddenly it seems as if kale is everywhere. The sturdy-leaved member of the Brassica vegetable family, which includes broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, collard greens and others, is showing up on restaurant menus, in cooking magazines and websites; actually in anything food-centric. Or not food-centric: It even made an appearance on Jimmy Fallon’s debut week hosting […]
