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Heating Up the White House Kitchen

Tim Zagat | Posted 01.07.2009 | Style

Read More: Culinary, White House Food, Daniel Boulud, Sustainable Food, Martha Stewart, Danny Meyer, Americana, Obama Inauguration, Ralph Brennan, Alice Waters, Inauguration Food, Barack Obama Inauguration, Tom Colicchio, David Chang, White House Kitchen, Inaugural Food, Chefs, Lydia Bastianich, Michael Pollan, David Bouley, Rich Melman, Obama Food, Cooking, Inauguration, Sheila Lukins, Sustainability, Food, Inaugural Dinner, Style News
Tim Zagat

At a time when many Americans are overweight, the trim First Family should serve as models of healthy eating balanced with regular exercise.

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Ten Recipes for Each of Your Favorite Foods: Could this Be America's New Go-to Cookbook?

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 01.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Sheila Lukins, Food, Silver Palate, Recipes, Cooking, Cookbooks, Living News
Jesse Kornbluth

Ten hasn't been in our kitchen long, but it's already muscled out some formidable competition. Soon, I suspect, it will be our go-to cookbook.

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Food Matters, and it Matters More Than Ever

Graham Hill | Posted 01.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Healthy Eating, Sustainable Agriculture, Michael Pollan, Green Living, Sustainable Food, Locavore, Cooking, Green News
Graham Hill

Bittman's recipes are frequently 'flexitarian' -- that means they are good to make either with or without meat.

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Christmas Dessert with Jamie Oliver

Amy Ephron | Posted 12.23.2008 | Living

Read More: Jamie at Home, Apple, Cooking, Dessert, Baking, Food, Xmas Dessert, Plum Dessert, Holiday Season Commentary, Living News
Amy Ephron

Jamie Oliver thinks "fruit is lovely", he uses words like "drizzle" and you sort of feel like he's in the kitchen with you. We're going to try a version of a recipe from his new book at out Christmas dinner as one of the desserts.

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When You Introduce Sous-Vide Cooking to Sephardic Food, Are You Taking Molecular Gastronomy Too Far?

Sophie Brickman | Posted 12.23.2008 | Style

Read More: Huevos Haminados, Eggs, Sous Vide, Pressure Cooking, Cooking, Under Pressure, Food, Culinary School, Molecular Gastronomy, Passover, Style News
Sophie Brickman

I looked down at the brown, unappealing egg on my plate. At the Passover table, eggs represent continuity, the cycle of life. The symbolic food of my ancestors, cooked sous-vide, seemed wrong. I took a bite.

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Defining The Holidays By More Than Just The Economy

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 12.15.2008 | Living

Read More: Blackberry, Holidays, Depression, Economy, Ice Skating, Walks, Childhood, Paris, Skiing, Central Park, Marche D;aligre, Ex-Pat, Cooking, Christmas, World War II, Food, Holiday Shopping, Rockafeller Center, Outdoor Activities, Economic Crisis, Holiday Cookies, Christmas Traditions, Christmas Commentary, Houston, Bank Closure, Ex-Pat Christmas, Christmas in Paris, Financial Crisis, Seattle, Living News
Vivian Norris de Montaigu

Turn the TV off during the next few weeks, don't check your email, and lose the Blackberry. Take a few days off and have some real vacation time.

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Simon Hopkinson's Poached Pears

One For The Table | Posted 12.12.2008 | Style

Read More: Simon Hopkinson, Holiday Food, Special Recipes, Food, Cooking, Fresh Pear, Style News
One For The Table

If you want to cook pears from raw, then buy them rock-hard -- which, I am convinced, is what the canny canners do anyway.

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On the Absurdity of Turning Vegetables

Sophie Brickman | Posted 12.11.2008 | Style

Read More: Potatoes, Turnips, Cutting Vegetables, Cooking, Jacques Pepin, Vegetables, Food, Culinary School, Waverly Root, Chefs, Escoffier, Careme, Culinary Technique, Turning Vegetables, Tourne De Legumes, Brillat-Savarin, Style News
Sophie Brickman

The real purpose of teaching how to turn vegetables is to put culinary students through hell.

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How to Make Your Own Holiday Candy

Karen Leland | Posted 12.03.2008 | Style

Read More: Candy, Food, Holiday Season, Cookbook, Cooking, Chocolate, Preparing for the Holiday Season, Style News
Karen Leland

I'm a fan of candy and not ashamed to admit it, but I've always done the crunching and let someone else create. This holiday, I decided it was time to step into the confectioner's shoes.

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I Don't Cook

Erica Jong | Posted 11.27.2008 | Style

Read More: Happiness, Thanksgiving Commentary, Cooking, Thanksgiving, Style News
Erica Jong

Some years it was steak, some years it was my grandmother's home cooked meals. I never learned her amazing recipes because I had to not cook to be free. I can cook in my next life.

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Nothing Says Home for the Holidays Like Take-Out

Marilyn M. Machlowitz | Posted 11.26.2008 | Style

Read More: Home Cooking, Holiday Foods, Cooking, Traditional Holiday Foods, Baking, Take Out, Food TV Network, Food, Chinese Takeout, Parenting, Baked Goods, Style News
Marilyn M. Machlowitz

Home-cooking may be on its way to becoming an oxymoron. It may only be Baby Boomers like me who still feel a smidge of guilt at not doing it all ourselves.

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Ani Phyo's Raw Food Thai Kelp Noodles

Ani Phyo | Posted 11.25.2008 | Style

Read More: Food, Vegetarian, Natural, Whole, Green, Eco, American, Organic, Seasonal, California, Raw Food Diet, Show, Video, Wheat Free, Farmers Market, Korean, Weight Loss, Living, Superfoods, Recipe, Lifestyle, Vegan, Local, Gluten Free, Los Angeles, Hollywood, Beauty, Cooking, Ani Phyo, Style News
Ani Phyo

Watch Ani Phyo make Pad Thai inspired noodles on YouTube. You can also watch it on the new VegNews Magazine website. For the recipe, please visi...

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The Tables Have Turned

Giulia Melucci | Posted 11.23.2008 | Style

Read More: Gender Stereotypes, Gender Roles, Romance, Brooklyn, Cooking, Dating, Online Dating, Food, Internet Dating, Masculinity, Femininity, New York City, Style News
Giulia Melucci

I like to be the cook in my relationships. When I'm not slaving over the stove for some boyfriend or other I'm not sure what I have to offer.

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Top Chef's Stephanie Izard on The Interview Show

Mark Bazer | Posted 11.17.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Mark Bazer, Cooking, Hideout, Top Chef, Stephanie Izard, Interview Show, Entertainment News
Mark Bazer

Top Chef winner Stephanie Izard recently appeared on a talk show I host in Chicago at the Hideout called The Interview Show. Here is video of the interview.

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Feeding the Candidates

Liz Neumark | Posted 11.11.2008 | Style

Read More: Healthy Eating, Gourmet Cooking, Local Food, Local Food Movement, Cooking, Good Eats, Food, Presidential Candidates, Local Farmers, Locavores, Style News
Liz Neumark

This fall, within the period of a few weeks, I fed Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama. First thing a good New York foodie will ask is what did they eat.

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Eats, Shoots, and Leaves? More like Shoots, Kills, and Seasons.

Sophie Brickman | Posted 11.10.2008 | Style

Read More: Seasoning, Shooting, Turkey, Hunting, Cooking, Culinary Schoool, Food, Nra, Guns, Seasonshot, Style News
Sophie Brickman

I researched and discovered that "SeasonShot" is, indeed, a product. It's tagline? Ammo with flavor. Zing. Palin country.

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Martha Stewart's Cooking School

Kelly O'Reilly | Posted 11.07.2008 | Style

Read More: Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Recipes, Martha Stewart, Economy, Cooking, Cookbooks, Food, Style News
Kelly O'Reilly

This is a hardcover version of the perfect mother, a comprehensive encyclopedia poised to become your apartment's version of those dirty old red and white tomes touting butter and beef Wellington that punctuated the holidays of youth.

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Simon Hopkinson Scores with Second Helpings of Roast Chicken

Karen Leland | Posted 11.03.2008 | Style

Read More: Seconds Helpings of Roast Chicken, Food, Simon Hopkinson, Cookbooks, Cooking, Books, Style News
Karen Leland

It's hard not to like a man (or a cookbook) that so obliviously celebrates the joy of food, and the effort required to make a great meal.

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Alert! Evidence of Flying Insects at Les Halles!

Sophie Brickman | Posted 10.21.2008 | Style

Read More: Cleanliness, Vermin, Mental Health, Hygiene, Restaurants, Cooking, New York Restaurants, Restaurant Inspections, Insects, Food, Eating, Department of Health, Les Halles, New York City Restaurants, Style News
Sophie Brickman

Don't want to eat an establishment where mice and rats rule the kitchen? Go browse those establishments that have received Golden Apple Excellence in Food Safety Awards.

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Seasonal Cooking: Tips from a Green Chef

Josie Garthwaite | Posted 10.16.2008 | Green

Read More: Healthy Eating, Slow Food, Lifestyle, Eating Matters, Sustainable Food, Nutrition, Cooking, Green, Food, Green Living, Green News
Josie Garthwaite

Chef Karen Jurgensen learned the tools of her trade in forward-thinking restaurants and catering kitchens in the 1980s. She now advocates for local food in restaurants and teaches folks how to craft seasonal menus.

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What is a Foodie? Am I One? Are You?

Sophie Brickman | Posted 10.15.2008 | Style

Read More: Culinary Arts, Gourmet Cooking, Gourmand, Dining Out, Cooking, Gastronomy, Gourmet, Food, Eating, Gastronome, Epicure, Culinary School, Foodie, Style News
Sophie Brickman

A thought then clanged in my head: as a culinary student whose mind focused on the culinary arts more than 50% of each day, was I now a foodie?

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Oh, yeah? Shove a Beer Can Up Your Butt.

Sophie Brickman | Posted 10.06.2008 | Style

Read More: Chicken, Culinary School, Barbecue, Smoking, Cooking, Beer, Bbq, Food, Grilling, Austin, Texas, Austin City Limits, Slow Cooked Chicken, Texas Cooking, Texan Dan, Style News
Sophie Brickman

Now almost done with the first level of culinary school, I found myself on the plane to Austin equally excited about the music festival I was going to as about the food.

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What to Serve on a Mooseburger

Chris Hall | Posted 09.26.2008 | Style

Read More: Mooseburgers, Food, Sarah Palin, Moose, The Joy of Cooking, Cooking, Style News
Chris Hall

I want to know how to make those mooseburgers, and, more to the point, what to put on them once they're ready to serve to your hungry brood.

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Raw Food Nutrition and Kelp Noodles

Ani Phyo | Posted 09.25.2008 | Living

Read More: Food, Raw Food, Sea Tangle, Health Food, Nutrition, Cooking, Kelp Noodles, Living News
Ani Phyo

They taste great in salads, tossed in a fresh marinara or Thai dressing, and help us loose weight!

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How to Get the Smell of Garlic Off Your Hands

Sophie Brickman | Posted 09.22.2008 | Style

Read More: Hygiene, Cooking, Garlic, Chopping, Food, Smells, Culinary School, Slicing, Cleaning, Style News
Sophie Brickman

As I near the end of my first month of culinary school, I find myself facing a new hygiene problem: my hands constantly smell of garlic.

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