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Archive for September, 2008

West Village: Beard on Books Welcoms Marcella Hazan, Author of Iconic Italian Cookboks

Every time you cook an authentic Italian dish, you probably have Marcella Hazan to thank.
Years ago, Italian food in the U.S. equated to red sauce Italian-American dishes like spaghetti and meatballs. Hazon’s iconic cookbooks, beginning with the 1973 classic, The Classic Italian Cookbook, introduced Americans to traditional Italian cooking much in the way that [...]

Want to be a Food Network Star?

If you’re dying to display your culinary skills to a mass TV audience, here’s your chance. These days, the Food Network is more foodtainment than serious cooking, but if being a culinary celeb is your dream, then here’s your chance:So You Wanna be a TV Star?
The Next Food Network Star is NOW [...]

Rosh Hashanah Recipe

If you’re a Sephardic Jew, you get to eat relatively healthy holiday fare on Rosh Hashanah. If you’re Ashkenazi, you have bloat and acid reflux to look forward to following your New Year’s meal.
But tradition is tradition. And if you want to include some elements that your Grandma might recognize, here’s a recipe for [...]

Brooklyn: French Cuisine, Oui! Brooklyn Cuisine, No!

The French are madly debating whether their iconic cuisine should be enshrined as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, according to a story in yesterday’s Times. It seems that there’s concern that traditional French foods and agricultural methods are disappearing. To my mind, any cuisine, even French food, needs to make it on it’s [...]

Central Park: Calling All Foragers

I like getting fruits, veggies, meat and fish from farm markets. Fairway, Zabar’s and Whole Foods do a good job of taking care of my other food needs .
But for those of you with a yen to harvest the bounty produced by our very own Central Park–epazote and mugwort are among the delicacies that [...]

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