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Recipe: B is for Beet
So, the Obamas are planting that organic edible garden on the grounds of the White House after all. It looks like a lovely melting-pot of flavors and cultures, too, with tomatillos and Thai basil,...
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Roasted Beet Salad with Fried Summer Squash and Figs
Roasted Beet Salad with Lavender-Scented Fried Summer Squash, Chevre, Figs, Cucumber Relish and a Balsamic Reduction I finally jumped on the CSA wagon and I must admit, it was kind of like Christmas...
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Roasted Beet Inspiration from Pasta Sfoglia
Roasted Beet Inspiration from Pasta Sfoglia When I saw this gorgeous dish of Farro Spaghetti, Beets, Brown Butter, and Poppy Seeds featured on Grub Street New York a few weeks ago, it was so beautiful...
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Valentine’s Day at Home
There are two ways you can go on Valentine’s Day. On one hand, it’s an excellent holiday for kids, or goofily cheerful adults. You get out the paper doilies and the glitter and red velvet cupcakes...
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Borscht for Chanukah
The last turkey sandwiches and scraps of pumpkin pie are gone, the final breakfast of hot coffee and cold stuffing finished, and suddenly, another holiday is sending you back into the kitchen, this...
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Two Unique Yet Familiar Holiday Side Dishes
Here we are again, the holidays… gastronomy’s ultimate do over time of the year. Everyone’s getting fired up about brining birds, smoking hogs, roasting vegetables, buttering breads and sampling...
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Eating Light
It’s always the shortest days of the year which seem the longest. When the sunlight packs up and leaves at four in the afternoon, I have to stop and remind myself that I am living in California and not...
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Home Is Where the Heart Is On Valentine’s Day
The very first Valentine’s Day my husband and I spent together, he invited me over to his apartment and cooked for me for the first time. I still remember, he made me teryaki salmon and baby bok choy...
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Russ & Daughters: Reflections and Recipes from the House that Herring Built
“Overwhelming” and “unexpected” is how smoked-fishmonger turned writer Mark Russ Federman describes the reaction to his recently published memoir, Russ & Daughters: Reflections and Recipes from...
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Avoid Extreme Diets – 5 Warm Weather Foods That Naturally Detox The Body
Dextoxifying vegetables and fruit. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend As the weather warms and the days get longer our bodies naturally gear up for a long-awaited cleanse. Traditional cultures around the globe...
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The iconic cartoon character Popeye became most famous for his slapstick routine of eating a can of spinach, then attaining superpowers that he often used to give his gigantic nemesis Bluto a severe...
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Flavors Worth Finding: Peak Tea Leaf, Earthy Beets and Octopus with a Zing
Grocery Cafe’s Tea Leaf Salad Previously on Flavors Worth Finding As we sat down at Grocery Cafe in Jack London—the only people in the place at 6pm on a Thursday night—my friend told me, “Whatever we...
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