Over the past few months, I seem to have shifted my booze consumption back to the basics: drinking mostly neat pours (unmixed liquor served withou...
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Few things are more satisfying than writing in the rain. For a person who tends to be go go go, rain is a great excuse to throw on a pair of sweat...
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*serves four 1 fennel bulb, cored and roughly chopped 4 cloves of garlic, thinly sliced 1 green bell pepper, cored and roughly chopped 1 1/2 o...
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When it comes to my culinary education, I can think of a few game-changing cooks, chefs, restaurants, and cookbooks. Some played a key role in int...
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I'm writing this on Mother's Day. The kids have gone to bed by now, and I feel tired, but so, so happy. That's kind of how most days go as a paren...
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When you live in California, sometimes you feel hours behind everyone else. Weirdly, we watch a recording of the ball dropping in Times Square on ...
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makes two 1 cup of whole milk 1 tablespoon of salted butter 1 tablespoon of dark cocoa sugar, plus more for serving 1⁄2 teaspoon of cinnamon...
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While we're off in Sicily, we invited a few folks that we admire to guest post on Turntable Kitchen. For the food side, I asked contributors to wr...
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On our first date, Matt tried to convince me to read his favorite book, Infinite Jest (I had no intention, he would soon find out just how stubbor...
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'Tis the season of edible holiday treats! Everyone I know is making peppermint bark, molasses cookies (+ smoky ginger-molasses cookies!), gingerbr...
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My dad has this habit of announcing that things are either 'famous' or 'better than anything you have ever tried.' He does this with everything fr...
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Melissa and I have never met in person but like many of my other 'blogger friends' she feels like a real life friend. We're emailed about babies a...