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Cook the Book: Real Cajun: iced_coffee, foodshethought, drala625, scooter7018, jcwest47. Winners have been notified by email and also appear on our Contest Winners page. Thanks to everyone who entered!...
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Most people in the U.S. think of Cinco de Mayo as a great excuse to break out the chips and salsa and drink a bunch of Coronas or margaritas. It's a common misconception that Cinco de Mayo is Mexican Independence Day. In fact, the real Mexican Independence Day falls on September 16; the 5th of May isn't even a Mexican federal holiday. Cinco de Mayo actually commemorates the Battle of Puebla, in which an outnumbered Mexican Army defeated the French Army in an unlikely victory in 1862. That's enough history, let's move on to the tacos. Tacos are quintessential Mexican street food, sold from roadside stands, and they are meant to be eaten on the go and out of hand....
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Cook the Book: The Asian Grill: lisagee, bearsarefree, bongeezer, christine1225, js2222. Winners have been notified by email and also appear on our Contest Winners page. Thanks to everyone who entered!...
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Donald Link is a self-proclaimed "coonass," a true Cajun born and bred in Acadia Parish, Louisiana. As the chef and proprietor of Herbsaint and Cochon restaurants in New Orleans, Link's menus feature classic Cajun dishes with French and Italian twists. Louisiana's local produce, game, and seafood have been lifelong inspirations for Link's cooking. Real Cajun features recipes from every stage of the chef's life—such as his aunt's Tomato and Bacon Pie, which he enjoyed on childhood vacations to the Alabama coast, or his Game Day Choucroute, eaten with his staff and friends during the first Super Bowl after Hurricane Katrina. Food plays a major role in every aspect of Cajun life, from holidays to family reunions, festivals to funerals; with...
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If your summer cook-out repertoire is limited to hot dogs, hamburgers, and the occasional kebab, The Asian Grill might help you spice up the grilling season. Corinne Trang has put together a pan-Asian compendium of recipes using her "East meets East" concept of fusion cooking. Trang, dubbed the Julia Child of Asian cuisine, has taken flavor components from China, Vietnam, Thailand, Korea, India, Indonesia, and the Philippines and adapted them for the American grill. The Asian Grill utilizes the five-flavor concept, combining sweet, sour, salty, spicy, and bitter elements to create depth and complexity of flavor. Taking a cue from most Asian cuisines, meat is not the main focus of the menus outlined in The Asian Grill; instead one protein...
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Cook the Book: Urban Italian: SSG Snuffy, tgrabler, wmoss, shoneyjoe, MeganCochran. Winners have been notified by email and also appear on our Contest Winners page. Thanks to everyone who entered!...
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Tom Colicchio is everywhere. On top of reigning over his kingdom of Craft, he's on your television in Top Chef, in the kitchen with Tom: Tuesday Dinners, and now he's bringing his sandwich mini chain 'Wichcraft home with 'Wichcraft: Craft a Sandwich into a Meal and a Meal into a Sandwich. Written with Sisha Ortuzar, a sous-chef and partner in 'Wichcraft, Colicchio brings together recipes for sandwiches and condiments in a tidy package with vibrant color photographs accompanying each sandwich recipe. For those unfamiliar with 'Wichcraft (locations in New York City, Las Vegas, and San Francisco), it's not a place that turns out sandwiches like the ones you used to brown bag in middle school. This is "real food, hand-crafted."...
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Cook the Book: Ten: missbelle60, mannabsn, PeanutButter, kimberlymac, squidlette. Winners have been notified by email and also appear on our Contest Winners page. Thanks to everyone who entered!...
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For the first time in his life, chef Andrew Carmellini found himself cooking at home every night in his three-by-nine-foot kitchen. Instead of an army of sous chefs and dishwashers, it was just him and his food-writer wife, Gwen Hyman. Carmellini has worked at establishments like Lespinasse, Cafe Boulud, and, most recent, A Voce. Faced with doing his own prep work and grocery shopping and equipped with the standard New York–sized kitchen, Carmellini found himself cooking Italian with an urban twist. And so, Urban Italian: Simple Recipes and True Stories From a Life in Food was born. This book is basically the story of my life. Well, minus the part where I'm a respected professional chef. But I, too, am...
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Cook the Book: Beyond the Great Wall: lilyk, Ragdoll, cranberrycheese, bobcatsteph3, blisseau. Winners have been notified by email and also appear on our Contest Winners page. Thanks to everyone who entered!...
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