In most cultures, food is a big deal, and cooking authentic food from a cuisine that is not your own gives a direct connection to that culture. Experiencing a different culture so directly, and so easily, is one of my favorite things about cooking.
I’ve found, however, that cooking a few recipes here and there [...]

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I arrived back from Italy and London on Monday, so new posts soon and I’ll respond to some comments.  Unfortunately, most of my food pictures are on my brothers hard drive (my memory card filled up a couple times, so I had to copy them off and then delete it).  So a food recap will [...]

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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 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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