Molli Chamoy Sauce: Go Figure

Molli Chamoy Sauce: Go Figure

  Sometimes in a recipe, or a menu, or a store, I run across something that makes me chuckle with glee because it is so telling. That happened last week…

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Memories of English Farmhouse Cuisine: Beyond England

Over many years in the kitchen, I have found three, and only three cookbooks that gave me a shock of recognition, only three that have evoked the cooking I knew…

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Why 1492 is a non-event in culinary history

Ok, what do I mean by culinary history?  Culinary (from the Latin culina, kitchen) history traces the history of the (guess) the kitchen or more generally, the techniques used to…

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