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  • The Black Napkins of Boca Raton

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    Did you know that in Boca Raton, Florida, where my family lives, you can request a black napkin instead of a white napkin at restaurants? I can imagine your reaction. “Why would anyone request such a thing?” I had a similar reaction when I found about it too.

  • Spicy Spatchcocked Chicken with Cous Cous Salad & Salsa Verde

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    Spicy Spatchcocked Chicken with Cous Cous Salad & Salsa Verde

    Remember yesterday when I posted about making salsa verde with a mortar and pestle? And remember this morning how I linked to a Huffington Post piece I wrote about roasting a chicken? Now it all comes together in this post, a post that begins with a confession: last week, I made a meal on Monday…

  • Someone’s In The Kitchen With….

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    Tomorrow at 3 PM EST I’m starting a new feature here on the blog, a live-streaming web show I’m going to call “Someone’s In The Kitchen With….” Each week, a different guest will swing by my kitchen to teach me how to cook something and, more importantly, they’ll answer your questions LIVE on the web.…

  • Reasons To Roast A Chicken

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    My latest piece is up on Huffington Post, “Reasons To Roast A Chicken.” If you’re not roasting a chicken every week, I hope this will change your mind.

  • Salsa Verde via Mortar and Pestle

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    Salsa Verde via Mortar and Pestle

    I’ll let you in on a blogging secret. We bloggers want you to click all over our blogs because every time you click, we make $0.001 and, eventually, that adds up. (That’s why all successful food bloggers ride around in Porsches or, in my case, the subway.) So it’s a fairly significant fact that in…

  • Zhenya’s Stinging Nettles

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    Zhenya’s Stinging Nettles

    You may recall that a few weeks ago, I befriended Zhenya, The Feral Gardener, while buying a Dr. Brown’s black cherry soda at Katz’s Deli. On May 1st, Zhenya wrote me an e-mail: “I just picked a ton of very young stinging nettles and would be happy to give you at least half a ton….…

  • Sour Cream Coffee Cake

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    Sour Cream Coffee Cake

    It was only after I’d started making this coffee cake, mixing the butter and sugar, that I realized this wasn’t a round 9-inch cake sort of deal; this was a 13 X 9-inch beast. Yes, I know, you’re supposed to study a recipe carefully before proceeding; and yes, you’re supposed to butter the pan before…

  • Let Them Eat Cake

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    Here’s my second piece for The Huffington Post (click here); it’s about junk food and why feeding it to your kids is ok, in moderation.

  • Asparagus & Ramp Risotto

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    Asparagus & Ramp Risotto

    Spring is here at last and that means you’ll find two things at the farmer’s market that you won’t find there any other time of the year: ramps and asparagus. Sure, you can find asparagus at the grocery store in January, but that asparagus is as far a cry from farmer’s market asparagus as a…

  • Exclusive: Inside My Parents’ Refrigerator

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    For years, I’ve hounded my parents to let me videotape the inside of their refrigerator, a barren wasteland of processed foods and Tupperware containers filled with pre-chopped onions. (For those late to the story, my parents do not cook.) This Mother’s Day, they finally relented and the video above offers you EXCLUSIVE access to a…