Recipes and food adventures with Adam Roberts

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  • Maida Heatter’s Key Largo Cookies

    Maida Heatter’s Key Largo Cookies

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    I rewrote and revised the first sentence of my novel Food Person so many times, I know the finished one by heart: “Isabella Pasternak baked treats to bring to work every day; not as a way to endear herself to her co-workers, but as a way to avoid them.”

  • Bucatini with Swiss Chard, Raisins, and Parmesan

    Bucatini with Swiss Chard, Raisins, and Parmesan

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    Sometimes sharing a recipe is like playing a game of telephone. Take, for example, this recipe for Bucatini with Swiss Chard, Raisins, and Parmesan. It’s based on a recipe that I saw on Nigella Lawson’s website; but it turns out that she got the recipe from Joshua McFadden’s Six Seasons. I’m sure Nigella changed the…

  • Oatmeal Raisin Cookies That Will Keep You Sane

    Oatmeal Raisin Cookies That Will Keep You Sane

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    I don’t know about you, but my head started to crack a bit like an egg last night thirty minutes into the debate. And instead of throwing that egg into a skillet by continuing to watch (“this is your brain on Trump”), I decided to turn off the TV and crack a few eggs for…

  • European-Style Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

    European-Style Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

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    Once I was at Murray’s Cheese with David Lebovitz and he stopped to admire the butter from Vermont. I’ll confess, up to that point, I hadn’t given butter that much thought. For years I’d been buying Breakstones–you know, the kind that comes in the red box–and using it pretty universally. But then, after David talked…