Presidential Panoramas

February 24, 2010
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Before my regular hiking companions moved away, I spent a lot of time in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. I documented some of the trips with photos, and when I acquired a new Canon digital Elph camera, I tested its panorama feature. I would take a photo, pan to the left or right, and [...]

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Printing Some Dinner

February 23, 2010
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It is inevitable that 3-D printers will find applications in the kitchen, especially as they become cheaper and more ubiquitous. The geniuses at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories have already unveiled the CandyFab 4000, a device that prints forms with sugar instead of the usual plastic resins.
Chef Homaro Cantu of Moto restaurant in Chicago has been [...]

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Meet Doctor Tony

February 22, 2010
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If you watch Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations and you are also a parent of young children (or a tragic hipster), then you recognized a reference he made in his Egypt show. While enjoying the local cuisine, he said “There’s a party in my tummy, so yummy, so yummy,” which is a line from a song [...]

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Chicken with Herbed Dumplings

February 17, 2010
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What do you cook when you want a chicken pot pie but are too lazy/busy to screw around with making a crust? You cook chicken with dumplings. I saw this recipe on Michael Ruhlman’s site and figured it would give me a chance to practice my pâte à choux technique and put together a reasonably [...]

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Maggie’s Marvelous Mardi Gras Macarons

February 16, 2010
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I may be a decent cook, but I know when I’m outclassed by a great baker. When I saw Facebook photos of my friend Maggie’s baking projects – collected in an album titled “Food Porn” – I jokingly suggested that she ship some goodies my way.
She had been baking macarons, and was concerned that they [...]

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No-Knead Bread, Version 1

February 15, 2010
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All of the rave reviews I read about Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day: The Discovery That Revolutionizes Home Baking assured me that I could bake high-quality bread with little effort. Since my previous bread baking attempts have resulted in less than optimal results, it was time to try this “revolutionary” method. My [...]

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Trotter Gear

February 12, 2010
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At the other end of the meat case at H Mart where I found the oxtails was a lovely display of pig’s feet. If I’m going on a braising jag, I thought, I might as well go all the way. I had a recipe in mind, so I left with a bagful of animal extremities.
In [...]

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Braised Oxtails with Maitake, Caramelized Orange, and Shallots

February 10, 2010
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Ming Tsai, chef at Blue Ginger, has a cooking show on PBS in which he presents his “east meets west” approach to his food. On a recent show he explored the pairing of maitake mushrooms and Worcestershire sauce, then invited chef Tony Maws of Craigie on Main to present a dish made with the two [...]

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Being Fergus Henderson

February 9, 2010
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I‘ve written before about chef Fergus Henderson, who has become one of my culinary inspirations. I learned a while ago that the onset and progression of his Parkinson’s disease required him to stop cooking in his own restaurant, taking on the role of conceiving new recipes for his talented staff to execute.
Two recent tweets from [...]

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More Mellodrama

February 5, 2010
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I received a few replies following the Melodrama post, in which you attempted to guess all 24 of the songs used in this clip, “Mash-Mello”:
As promised, here is the list of clips, in Artist, Album, “Song” format:

King Crimson, In the Court of the Crimson King, “In the Court of the Crimson King”
U2, All That You [...]

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