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Food Boom: A Note on Carrot Jam
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Monday, October 20, 2008. A Note on Carrot Jam. Much of our cooking these days has been rushed off the stove, short-order style. After a while this becomes depressing: some of our recent meals, stretching into last week, have been decidedly monochromatic. A warm French potato salad with bacon and red onion. Tasty, sure, in moderation. But it's a side dish. So when there's nothing else to accompany it ,. It grows tedious P.D.Q. A bowl of potatoes can only take you so far. This may be a first. For the pork...
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Food Boom: Nostalgia-Free Cookies
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Saturday, October 11, 2008. First of all, there's no such thing. That, at least, is what everyone told me. "The nose," Coach Taylor explained, "is the organ of nostalgia par excellence. Her paramour, whom I'll call A/V, agreed. "Smell and memory are inextricable," he said. But herein lay my opening. "Nostalgia and memory are not the same thing. Memory has to do with events that actually happened; nostalgia is fictional sentiment.". But since there are fat-free cookies, might it not be possible to develop...
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Food Boom: Easy Targets
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Friday, October 3, 2008. One of the great autumnal pleasures— other than raking leaves, which comes later in the season— is staying up late to make tomato sauce. I'm now on my third batch. Two weeks ago, as batch #2 simmered happily away, I suddenly realized that time had escaped my grasp: it was 2:30 in the morning. And on a work night! My mind must have been wandering. Why resort to trial and error when a trial can be so trying, and when an error— in a situation wherein high heat, sharp instrumen...
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Food Boom: It's Never Too Early...
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Saturday, October 25, 2008. It's Never Too Early. It's never too early to start planning for Thanksgiving. With the holiday just over a month away, October 25 seems comically late. Imagine if one waited until this point before deciding to breed or even to fatten a turkey. Or to dry some corn. No dice. The whole thing would be a wash. More interesting still would be a thanksgiving dinner cooked and eaten entirely out of doors. With guest huddled together on the frosty ground. This wouldn't necessarily...
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Food Boom: October 2008
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Friday, October 31, 2008. Some notes on, about, and toward Turkeys. November is "novel month," which makes for an amusing play on words. There are few months less novel than November. The other principle offender is December. Mind you, January and February never feel especially new either, in spite of the calendars they require us to buy. Here's a possible menu:. Trio of autumnal soups, served in, you know, precious little cups of some kind:. 1) white: turnip and leek soup. 2) orange: squash bisque.
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Food Boom: The Theme is Discoloration
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Sunday, November 2, 2008. The Theme is Discoloration. How do you cook for good friends you doesn't often see? Is it better to wheel out an old stalwart- and thereby devote more time to socializing- or to throw caution to the winds and tinker out something new? The conclusion seems foregone. Throw something in the oven and join 'em. All the same, Saturday night found me spurning my own better judgment. I cast my lot with the new. Is there not something in friendship that refuses to be measured in ...With ...
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Food Boom: Some notes on, about, and toward Turkeys
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Friday, October 31, 2008. Some notes on, about, and toward Turkeys. November is "novel month," which makes for an amusing play on words. There are few months less novel than November. The other principle offender is December. Mind you, January and February never feel especially new either, in spite of the calendars they require us to buy. Here's a possible menu:. Trio of autumnal soups, served in, you know, precious little cups of some kind:. 1) white: turnip and leek soup. 2) orange: squash bisque.
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Food Boom: Mollycules and Gastropods
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Sunday, September 28, 2008. H has been out of commission this weekend with a stomach flu, but the kitchen has been busy all the same. For some reason— perhaps as a means of passing the time until the second shoe inevitably drops— the level of activity in our kitchen has intensified. Does flu strike in pairs? Sadly, Old Hubbard would not be recovering quite as quickly as her human counterpart(s); to my knowledge there's no remedy for vegetable illness other than a swift execution. I decided to act fast.
