Recipes and food adventures with Adam Roberts

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quince

  • Spiced-Quince Brown-Butter Cake

    Spiced-Quince Brown-Butter Cake

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    Taylor Swift is in her tortured poet era, and I’m in my quince era. What can I say? I love how those rock hard, green softballs transform with a little time, a little sugar, and a little liquid into something so fragrant and colorful. Not to mention, when they’re cooked, they taste like honey and…

  • Quince Preserves

    Quince Preserves

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    My first awareness of quince came from the movie White Men Can’t Jump when Rosie Perez, whose character dreamed of going on Jeopardy, memorized “Foods That Start with the Letter Q.” (Besides “quince” there was “quail,” “quiche,” and “quahog.” Not sure of the fifth!) But I didn’t eat a quince — or cook a quince…