i know… we’re in the throes of the holidays and here i am giving you the kind of post you might more be expecting in january. this modest, even unassuming soup is a fine example of the simple comfort food that everyone craves after all the excess and extravaganza that will ring out the year. […]

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i eat a lot of beans. i didn’t used to. but rancho gordo changed all that. i know, you’ve heard it before. but RG has radically altered my personal food pyramid and now, well – i eat a lot of beans… so in the past two weeks, i’ve made three big pots of very different […]

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i’m one of those people who don’t have a great deal of attachment to my childhood food memories. i mean, being from nyc i grew up around seriously great food but my mom was not a gourmet cook. she saw feeding us each night as her familial duty and she did a solidly good job – but nothing […]

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when i first read ‘the making of a chef’ by michael ruhlman, i remember being struck by the last line in an early chapter where he wrote something like, "and then i realized i had come to the CIA to learn how to make a perfect brown veal stock". having made my own perhaps not-as-perfect […]

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beans! beans! they’re good for your heart! the more you eat, the more you fart… unless you change the soaking water every couple of hours to remove the offending sugar molecules called oligosaccharides. see what you get from me? both immaturity and education! i am like so totally worth your time… after the butter and […]

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i could just say "thank you heidi" and then give you the link… because anything else is really superfluous here – but since we haven’t chatted in awhile i thought i’d hang around and shoot the breeze. ’08 has had a rough start. one of my cats, chet – a sable burmese – got injured […]

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3 soups in one day?� ambitious?� perhaps.� but i was hell bent on getting through this mountain of produce that was somehow all mine.� and soups are a good way to go when faced with an overbearing bounty.� i opted first for the bittman pear zucchini, then a riff off an aubergine soup i’d seen […]

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