In an op-ed called No Chefs in My Kitchen, Marcella Hazan is in fine form: concise, pointed and just a tad crabby. First she takes issue with the growing tendency to call home cooks “chefs”–it would be just quibbling over words if she didn’t also point out that “chef” suggests a field “where food is [...]
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Photos are up over at Flickr. Not a lot of them. But still–such pretty, pretty fish. Even if the setting is now totally dull and industrial–no Brooklyn Bridge twinkling in the night. Perhaps saddest of all, there’s no bar nearby to warm up in before the big shop, as we did in 2005. We loaded [...]
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Damn right, it’s better than yours! Yours is the stuff they make jokes about–terrible gifts, lasting for years, etc. Mine, however, will show the world that fruitcake is actually really delicious.
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This could very well be Kitchen Rule #1: If you smell something burning, go down to the kitchen. Don’t sit there at your desk, doing a mental inventory, trying to convince yourself nothing could possibly be burning.
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