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  • What’s your favorite cold weather food?

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    Tonight I made my standard tomato sauce (see book, Chapter One) except with some tweaks: I skipped the carrot, skipped the thyme. And since it’s getting cold out, I started out with bacon and made a kind of

  • What was the best thing you ate this weekend?

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    My answer’s easy: we had leftover basil from a soup I made on Friday night (a Tuscan bean soup that I’ll tell you about later in the week). I whipped up a quick pesto–garlic, pine nuts, and salt zapped with the basil and then olive oil streamed in through the tube, grated Parmesan added at…

  • Have you ever…

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    …spent two hours on a post and then, just before clicking post, accidentally closed the window and lost everything? Well I just did! I need to go for a walk.

  • Which food magazine has the best Thanksgiving issue?

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    I just received Gourmet’s Thanksgiving issue in the mail and taken alongside Bon Appetit’s (which I read in the store) plus Food & Wine’s and Saveur’s, there’s an abundance of ideas for what to make this Thanksgiving. Thus I turn to you, readers: which food magazine do you like the most for Thanksgiving? Which magazine’s…

  • Your Drink

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    So I was watching “Groundhog Day” for a bit on TV last night and there’s that scene where Bill Murray is trying to seduce Andie MacDowell in a bar. He memorizes facts about her so that when the day happens again, he can win her heart. One of these facts happens to be what drink…

  • Maine Help

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    1. Does anyone have the recent Gourmet Magazine with Jane & Michael Stern’s road trip tips for Maine? If you do, can you put the places they mention in that article in the comments here? Thanks! 2. If anyone has any tips for where to eat in Maine (in particular, near Kennebunkport) let me know!

  • Summer Food

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    Today I had sushi for lunch and it was the best possible thing I could imagine eating on such a hot day. What’s your favorite meal to have when it’s hot out? (Note: ice cream doesn’t count.)

  • What will you cook this Memorial Day weekend?

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    I’m thinking of making french fries from scratch (my very first time). Some kind of seafood (a whole roast fish?) And a birthday cake for Diana, whose birthday is on Sunday. What are your plans, loyal readers?

  • San Francisco, Open Your Golden Gate

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    Good people of San Francisco: I come with news. I will be arriving in your fair city, my first time since childhood, on April 13th and staying with my friend Raife (who you met in the fish post) until the 20th! That means my time has come for fresh San Fran sourdough and dinners at…

  • What Was The Best Thing You Ate This Weekend? (The Sequel)

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    Once I asked this question and delighted in your many passionate responses. So here it is again! What was the best thing you ate this weekend? I’d love to know what graced your gullet this Friday-Saturday-Sunday.