We are seeing signs of spring everywhere. Nature is taking its course. But this is still a transitional time of year for food. The larder is confused: it’s telling us we’re in winter. You would hardly know it from the huge displays of fresh produce at the grocery where every possible variety is on display. […]
So often you see a recipe calling for chicken stock and the admonition “preferably homemade.” I wonder how many home cooks actually take the time to make their own chicken stock. I try to imagine all those industrious souls who not only make their own stock, but make it in vast quantities and stash it […]
I have to admit a strange brain tick: I collect cauliflower recipes. I think this started at a time when I had a client who was beginning the South Beach diet and I noticed that people–some people, anyway–were substituting non-caloric cauliflower for starchy potatoes. Suddenly I was seeing cauliflower recipes everywhere, and I began to […]
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