Peeled Walnuts: Awesome, Really

What a thing of beauty.  Here’s a fresh walnut, just out of the shell, its white flesh gleaming like moonlight, and the bit of skin I have peeled back waving…

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How to Create a Regional Cuisine: The Luau and French Regional Cuisine

You’ve probably seen some of the few photos that have filtered out of the private annual congressional White House picnic that took place last Thursday. Barack Obama invited Alan Wong…

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Lest We Forget. Servants in the Kitchen

Last year I wrote a series of posts on servants in the kitchen. A reader asked me to put them together, so here goes. 1. Lest We Forget: Servants in…

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