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Laurie Colwin: Home Cooking (1988), More Home Cooking (1993) Much beloved writer and Gourmet columnist...her personal observations and attention to pleasing and feeding self, friends, and family without fuss, is seemingly cosily simplistic, but really a treatise on the way to live well now....

MFK FISHER Of course, one can't miss the much celebrated & recognized extensive literary memoirs, culinary, personal, historical, cultural, philosophical that MFK Fisher's works encompass...her intense interest in culinary matters as an essential and important part her life, her extensive...

Along with Jennyema's excellent selections, some choice bits: Any book by master baker Nancy Silverton. After all, her dessert brought tears to Julia's eyes! I have been making her desserts from early years and each recipe has stood the test of time and never failed! She takes baking to the...

I've eaten pizza all over italy and can definitely say you might try the simple YEASTED dough recipes by nancy silverton and other master bread makers that have put a bit of thought into their doughs and tested and re-tested their recipes for home cooks. Nancy silvertons "breads"" from la brea...

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There is a fabulous recipe my family has made for decades for special occasions and anytime one could wrangle it. It's found in most older cookbooks like Gourmet, Bon Appetit, etc, and of course, found online easily. They are cottage cheese pancakes (the one with whipped egg whites folded in)...

Look up Chinese pork shoulder recipes (yummy!), you can make mexican carnitas with pork shoulder! Like many comments, long, slow cooking is key.

Easy Simply scrub out cast iron pan with a metal scrubber, rinse, dry very well, rub all over with cooking oil, heat to moderate 300 degrees on stove top or in oven for 25 min. Cool. Rub in another thin coat of cooking oil. Heat cool process again.

Isn't pizza hut the place that threatened to fire all their low wage slaves if Romney didn't win? If so, I wouldn't encourage them, no matter how cheap the eats re. People need sustaining too!

Hi, Does anyone have recipe (not cumin based) for Indian yogurt raita condiment that has a pleasant but more "sour" flavor that I seem to be missing. Is there a herb that subtly intensifies the agreeable "sour" taste I am missing? also, the mango lassi recipes I find are also missing this...