A mild winter presents delicious opportunities. It’s the dead of winter. At least it should be. But, this year winter has been an elusive concept in a large part of the country. Not that it’s a bad thing. Unless you’re and avid skier, snowboarder or earn your living behind a snowplow. Right about now, [...]
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Most of us have a box full of history waiting in our kitchen. The handwritten recipe card. It holds more than just a set of instructions for preparing a dish. It holds a certain amount of history too. I have a pretty big collection of my Mom’s recipe cards. Some are in her original, impossible [...]
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There is no better time than now to start making some great food memories. Childhood memories. If you were ever a child, and, I’m assuming you were, then you have them. A smell, a taste or a sound, immediately drags you back to a different time in your life. There’s nothing you can do [...]
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This fish story has a delicious ending. Walking in to a seafood market or strolling up to the seafood counter at your local supermarket isn’t what it used to be. The outing can be more than a little daunting. The days of an easy decision, like which piece of salmon or cod to choose, are [...]
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Are the super specialized cookbooks of today really better? There is absolutely no doubt that as a genre, the cookbook measures up in popularity with any other subject area in print today. Just one look around the cookbook section of your favorite bookseller will confirm that. If you look closely at those racks you will [...]
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Heirloom or cookware? You decide. In a lot of families it’s passed down from generation to generation like a precious piece of household history. It’s usually stored in a place that’s easy to get to, but also out of the way. It’s not something that most home cooks use everyday, but, they could. Especially if [...]
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Should your cookbook come with a health warning? It’s tough to judge. We all do things that we know are bad for us, but, sometimes we do them anyway. Does someone telling us that something is bad, stop us from engaging in bad behavior? The cookbook. In it’s most basic form is a set of [...]
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It’s really what’s inside the box that matters most. Am I right? I guess times have changed a little. Probably more than a little. When I was in elementary school I had a bag (or boxed) lunch every day. The contents of that bag were not a mystery. It was more like a poorly [...]
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December is behind us. And with it, the holiday shopping frenzy. Black Friday gave way to Cyber Monday and before you knew it, all that was left from the buying bonanza was a giant pile of gift wrap and the unanswered question of which presents are worth keeping and which will be tagged for return. [...]
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The future of cookbooks may be closer than anyone would imagine. I’m not going give you any earth shattering news that you probably don’t already know. But, here it is anyway. The cookbook app is not only coming, it’s here. See, I told you that was somewhat old news. What may be new however [...]
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