Entries tagged with 'Cook the Book'
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Cook the Book: How to Roast a Lamb: AnaisKoi, feep, Karen Moore, MiaPita, and sahmad550. Winners have been notified by email and also appear on our Contest Winners page. Thanks to all who entered....
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Growing up in Charleston, South Carolina, left Matt and Ted Lee with a passion for Southern food that refused to be tamed. They have been spreading the gospel of Southern cooking since 1994, the year they started The Lee Bros. Boiled Peanuts Catalogue, a mail order source for foods that are hard to find above the Mason-Dixon Line. With the success of the catalog came offers from magazines for the brothers to write about the subject that was so near and dear to them, Matt and Ted Lee quickly became the go-to guys for all things related to Southern foodways. The next logical step was a cookbook, and The Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook was born. This comprehensive book of classic...
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Cook the Book: New Classic Family Dinners: quack, rebeccadiamond, Ron Manley, Monelle, and lucylucy. Winners have been notified by email and also appear on our Contest Winners page. Thanks to all who entered....
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Sometimes it seems like no cuisine is as underappreciated as Greek cuisine. It's a food culture with a long and glorious history of fresh Mediterranean ingredients, but why has it been relegated to the ranks of soggy spanakopita and wilted Greek salads, heavy with greying black olives and stinky feta? Psilakis started in the front of the house, waiting tables in a T.G.I. Friday's. This cuisine is crying out for a champion and Michael Psilakis is just the man for the job. Raised in a food-focused first generation Greek-American family in Long Island, New York, Psilakis was a late bloomer in the restaurant world. Unlike most chefs, Psilakis started in the front of the house, waiting tables in a T.G.I....
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Cook the Book: The Pioneer Woman Cooks: nmallory, RossS, merckurybubbles, Sharon H., and wwe11. Winners have been notified by email and also appear on our Contest Winners page. Thanks to all who entered....
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"This is a cookbook that makes you want to cook." Even the best restaurants can have a hard time filling their tables on Monday nights. Some places use this slow night as a welcome day of rest for their staff, but some see it as an opportunity to try something a little different. A little over ten years ago Mark Peel decided to scrap the modern Italian menu that he served nightly Campanile, his Los Angeles modern Italian restaurant, in favor of a simple family-style Monday night meal. The results were mutually beneficial. For one night a week, Peel was able to serve whatever his heart desired and in turn, his customers enjoyed an inspired three-course meal at an affordable...
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Cook the Book: The Southern Italian Table: Runningwithbeaters, kombodian, sugarpaws, williaka, and eqsachs. Winners have been notified by email and also appear on our Contest Winners page. Thanks to all who entered....
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Ree Drummond, aka the Pioneer Woman, will be the first to tell you that sometimes life doesn't turn out the way you'd expect it to. She was on her way to Chicago from Los Angeles when she met her knight in shining spurs and future husband, the "Marlboro Man." Before Drummond—once a self-proclaimed city girl—knew it, she was married to this unlikely man of her dreams and whisked off to a vast cattle ranch in Oklahoma. While the story is pretty darn romantic, adjusting to ranch life wasn't exactly easy for the Pioneer Woman. The reality of life without take-out Thai food, fancy coffee, and weekly mani-pedis was a little hard at first. While whipping up a breakfast of sausage...
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Cook the Book: Pumpkin Baking: hungrylikethewolf, ekenyon, etirv, amylou61, and amy_i. Winners have been notified by email and also appear on our Contest Winners page. Thanks to all who entered....
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"The notion of cucicna povera, or poor cooking, carries through Southern Italian cooking today." A few years ago, my fiancé and I went on a trip to Italy. It was no mere European vacation—we spent a year working two jobs to save enough to live in Italy for as long as possible. Finally, when we reached our desired sum, we gave our landlord notice, got rid of basically every single thing we owned, and packed our remaining belongings into two oversize backpacks that were too heavy for us to even carry. Upon arriving at Fiumicino Airport in Rome, we quickly realized that our Italian phrasebook—and the three Italian language classes that I had taken—weren't going to do us any good....
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