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Thanksgiving Talk with Food52's Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs

[Photograph: Sarah Shatz] Each week Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs host recipe contests revolving around specific foods (everything from pancakes to lamb) on their site Food52. After testing the recipes, they announce the two tastiest finalists and the community votes on the winner. Naturally, they've been focusing on Thanksgiving lately. Elbow-deep in stuffing preparation, they paused to chat with us and share some of their favorite recipes for Thanksgiving sides, including celeriac puree, glazed brussels sprouts with browned butter and cream, potato leek au gratin, and pink greens. With Food52 in its first year, how did you two plan to attack Thanksgiving coverage? Merrill and Amanda: Well, we decided very quickly not to do turkey. It's such a personal...

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3 Comments | Posted by Erin Zimmer, November 16, 2009 at 8:30 AM
Tagged: Amanda Hesser, Food52, Merrill Stubbs, Thanksgiving, websites

Francis Mallman's 'Seven Fires' Wins 'Piglet' Tournament of Cookbooks

If you've been following along with Food 52's Tournament of Cookbooks (aka "The Piglet"), you'll be pleased to know that the grand champion has been chosen. Final-round judge Nora Ephron calls it for Francis Mallman and Peter Kaminsky's Seven Fires: Grilling the Argentine Way. Sure the book has some problems: Many of the fires in Seven Fires can be set in the wilds of Argentina or, presumably, on a finca, but they cannot be set on driveways, patios or the back lawn. So where is one to set them? I have no idea. And many of the recipes that are meant to be cooked over fire don't contain alternative cooking suggestions. There's a wildly exciting lamb recipe that's cooked in...

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Post a Comment | Posted by Adam Kuban, November 10, 2009 at 2:00 PM
Tagged: contests, cookbooks, Food 52, Francis Mallman, Peter Kaminsky, Seven Fires, The Piglet

Videos: A Preview of Amanda Hesser's "Food 52" Website, Plus a Tour of Her Kitchen

In May, there was a blip on the radar that former New York Times Magazine food editor (and current Recipe Redux contributor) Amanda Hesser—along with food writer and recipe-tester Merrill Stubbs—would be launching a new site called Food 52. Looks like they're beta-testing now—and that you can sign up for an invitation once it launches: Food52.com. But what really caught our eye today is that Hesser and Stubbs seem to have quietly started uploading to a Vimeo account, which is full of what appear to be test videos—along with a couple great nuggets: an introduction to the Food 52 concept, and a video tour of Amanda Hesser's envy-inducing kitchen—complete with the now-customary refrigerator-baring. Watch both, after the jump....

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15 Comments | Posted by Adam Kuban, July 20, 2009 at 1:15 PM
Tagged: Amanda Hesser, Food 52, kitchen tours, Merrill Stubbs, videos, websites