Food Meditations :

On The Menu : Pig Ears, Quinoa and Moscow Food Scene

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Travel bites ~ Moscow's Best Restaurants, From Formal to Funky "Privately owned restaurants didn't open in Moscow until the late 1980s, and even then, few could afford to eat in them" Thinking... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my[...]

Inspiration, Perspiration and Technique. When Sport Meets Gourmet

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Calling for change ~ Knobbly veg recipes "...we need to use less perfect looking produce thus helping to prevent food waste..." Vegetable recipes made by using weird and delightful, but just as... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my[...]

Artichoke, Raw Oysters and Beer Fast for Lent (the Monk Way)

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Irish Recipes ~ St. Patrick's Day Food & Drink ~ Chef Cathal Armstrong's holiday menu, authentic recipes for soda bread and corned beef and cabbage, and... Read more: St. Patrick's Day Food... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my[...]

Coda alla Vaccinara, Pan Indian Cuisine and Poppy Seeds, a Culinary Journey

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Natural affinity ~ Good reasons to use more poppy seeds "Papaver somniferum, the opium poppy, source of the blue-black seeds used in sweet and savory dishes" From ice cream to pasta, a liberal... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my[...]

Simply In Season : Pursue the Path of Italian Cooking

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Just add parmesan ~ Tracing the roots of Italian food "...a cuisine that has the enormous merits of being cheerful, tasty, varied, inexpensive and unworrying..." France may still have the edge... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my[...]

729 Layers and Counting : Puff Pastry and Edible Art

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Discovering new foods ~ Klout's Most Influential Celebrity Chefs on Twitter "Food channels not only attract moms on a mission to find a new recipe... " Chefs and media, going from cuisine... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my[...]

The Chicken-Egg Question and The Chef Who Could Not Taste

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Love at First Bite ~ Living the ultimate hipster foodie dream "It's a brisk afternoon on the Lower East Side, but at the Meatball Shop on Stanton Street, its open kitchen" Meet Michael and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my[...]

Meat Glue, the Origins of Chicken Tikka Masala and Recipe Writing

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A status symbol ~ Is it racist to ban shark's fin soup? "Globally, we've reached the point at which the collapse of an ecosystem has to take precedence over one culture's culinary heritage"... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my[...]

Bake and Roast, Eat, Drink and Be Marry on Fat Tuesday

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Food in Seasons ~ March "Stuff cockles into a rustic paella, serve grilled sardines with lemon wedges, or wow with native oysters" As the days get longer, help yourself to fresh seasonal... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website[...]

Top 10 Pantry : Kombu, Mushrooms, Polenta, ...

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Customizable Soups ~ Creamy, Brothy, Earthy, Hearty "The last four soup recipes you?ll ever need ? with the potential for infinite variations" Vegetable soups belong to a special category, the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my[...]