I used to hate fish, but recently I’ve found myself coming around to it – slowly. I can now eat it with no problem, and some of the less fishy fish, I actually enjoy.
Having received Vefa’s Kitchen, an awesome looking Greek cookbook, for my birthday, I’ve decided that I need to start cooking and [...]

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Now that I’ve been cooking for over a year, I’ve gotten to know some of the cookbooks I’ve been using on a regular basis.  In this post I’d like to do a quasi-review of Mark Bittman’s How to Cook Everything, discussing what I think it does well, where I think it’s lacking, and which audience [...]

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I love Greek gyros, so when I saw this recipe in the Top Chef Cookbook, I knew I had to eat it.  Though completely different in flavor, gyros and these Moroccan Cubanos are similar in spirit – a spiced meat with vegetables wrapped in a warm pita.  It’s freakin’ awesome.
For Top Chef watchers, this recipe [...]

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I saw this video of Mark Bittman from the 2007 TED conference.  Not that you have to agree with everything he says (and I’m not claiming I do), but I think his history of food in America (at the 7:45 mark) is interesting, and it’s certainly not a bad idea to think more about what we’re [...]

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I’d never heard of ras al-hanout until I decided to make Moroccan Cubanos (recipe coming Monday, via the Top Chef Cookbook).
Ras al-hanout is a Moroccan/North African/Middle Eastern spice blend.  Per wikipedia, the name means “head of the shop” in Arabic, which refers to it being a mixture of a shop’s best spices.
There is no single recipe, [...]

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