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Renato Poliafito

  • Chocolate Amaro Pecan Pie

    Chocolate Amaro Pecan Pie

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    It’s T-minus four days til T-day and most of you who are cooking have your menus worked out. But wait! I’ve got a recipe you need to add to the mix. It comes from Renato Poliafito’s fantastic Italian-American baking book, Dolci!, and it’s a pecan pie that took a trip to Italy and came back…

  • Pasta Night

    Pasta Night

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    I first met Renato Poliafito on April 22nd, 2009. I know that because I wrote a post about it when my friend Josh and I trekked out to Red Hook to visit the beloved bakery, Baked, that he ran with his pal Matt Lewis. We immediately hit it off: not just because we both love…

  • Bourbon Chocolate Pecan Pie

    Bourbon Chocolate Pecan Pie

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    So that dinner I made for my friend Alex’s birthday (the one with the soup) began a few days earlier when I e-mailed Alex a very important question: “Dear Alex,” I wrote, “what are your Top 5 favorite desserts of all time?” Alex wrote back: “Hmmm…top five favorite desserts…I’ll do this w/o thinking too much:…

  • S’more Bars

    S’more Bars

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    You know how some people use Memorial Day and Labor Day to delineate time? As in: “We bought our house around Memorial Day” or “We’re spending the summer in Cape Cod and we come back around Labor Day”? I always nod and smile when people do that but truthfully, I never remember when Memorial Day…

  • Baked

    Baked

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    Ok, class, we’re about to take a field trip: does everyone have a trip buddy? Find a buddy now. David Lebovitz, no, you can’t be buddies with Perez Hilton: he’s not in our class. This is a food class, not a gossip class, ok? Now then, I hope you’re all hungry because we’re about to…