It took me a long time to come back to pork chops. (more…)
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Food wise, Thanksgiving is the most stressful holiday of the calendar year. It doesn't have to be! (more…)
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As they so often do, the Test Kitchen crowd completely changed the way I thought about creamy mushroom soup. (more…)
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Claudia Roden's latest book on Middle Eastern cuisine is part cookery book, part travelogue, with a generous pinch of The Arabian Nights thrown in. (more…)
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If you are a Russia watcher (and if you aren’t, why on earth are you reading this blog?) you will be up to speed about the big announcement over the…
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Here’s a confession. My daughter Velvet and I are addicted to bad reality TV shows, which is out of character for us both. I’m meant to be the brainy intellectual/witty…
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When you’ve checked in three large duffle bags full of harmless kitchen essentials such as a vertical chicken roaster...
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I’m more of a gin or chardonnay gal, but when a reader asked me about bacon-flavored vodka, I was forced to take another look at Russia's favorite tipple, roll up…
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