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My closest grocery store is a Publix, and I've come to appreciate their consistently friendly and helpful staff!

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Cook the Book: 'Good Food to Share'

I'm going to be making the cranberry bread from Beard on Bread to share with my colleagues this week, assuming I don't scarf it all down first!

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Cook the Book: 'Bi-Rite Market's Eat Good Food'

My closest grocery store is a Publix, and I've come to appreciate their consistently friendly and helpful staff!

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Cook the Book: 'Good Food to Share'

I'm going to be making the cranberry bread from Beard on Bread to share with my colleagues this week, assuming I don't scarf it all down first!

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Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Southside Market Sausage, Chicken, and Steaks

For local barbecue, I love Wiley's Championship BBQ in Savannah, GA. But don't get me started on my favorites in Texas!

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Cook the Book: 'The Family Meal'

I would imagine pastas or one-pot meals - something easy to fix for a crowd.

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Cook the Book: 'The Splendid Table's How to Eat Weekends'

Chicken and dumplings or a good beef stew, but I think my answers are affected by the slight chill in the air these days!

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I have a big mug with French writing on the side. It survived college and 10 years of moving around since then!

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What do you mean, you hate _________?!

I can't handle goat cheese. My version of hell happened a decade ago on a family vacation to Provence. Lovely, expensive restaurant served the cheese course, a pristine white, generously cut slab of goat cheese. And nothing else. It's hard to disguise that you've eaten nothing when there isn't even a lettuce leaf to hide the cheese under! (That's what I do when salads come with goat cheese and I wasn't paying enough attention to the menu.)

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An Open Letter To Our Community About Our Sponsors

Thank you for keeping Serious Eats free for all of us to enjoy. While I too was surprised by the Campbell's recipes while reading in Google Reader (they weren't so clearly marked as advertiser content when viewed in Reader,) I appreciate not having Serious Eats have to go to a paywall model to sustain content.

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Cook the Book: 'The Pot and How to Use It: The Mystery and Romance of the Rice Cooker'

It's not exactly an appliance and more of a pot, but my pressure cooker is my favorite thing in my kitchen right now. When I forget to start the slow cooker, I can throw it all in the pressure cooker and have it done quickly. Two standouts from recent pressure cooker experimentation - risotto and the most flavorful vegetable broth I've ever made.

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What's Your Favorite Gas Station Convenience Store for Snacks?

@colossus05, you're right! Parker's in Georgia is wonderful. I was thinking about what convenience stores I've encountered on road trips and completely forgot about my in-town favorite. I picked up some broiled flank steak and curried chicken salad the last time I stopped there.

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Cook the Book: 'The Tex-Mex Grill and Backyard Barbacoa Cookbook'

Weirdly, my favorite is nachos, now that I've left Texas. The Mexican places around my current home favor a mildly spicy cheese sauce instead of a good coating of longhorn cheddar and topped with a jalapeño slice.

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What Lost Family Recipe Would You Like to Find Again?

I would love to have my grandmother's recipe for pickled crabapples. More than that, I wish we still had the family pea. I don't mean a recipe for peas. I mean the actual family pea that traveled through the years from Virginia to Texas by way of Tennessee and then got lost after my grandfather passed away in 1985. Now that heirloom vegetables fascinate me, it's such a shame that my own family's heirloom is gone.

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Cook the Book: 'My Bread'

My first foray into baking bread was both a triumph and a disaster. In 3rd grade, my mother helped me make an Irish soda bread for a class presentation on Ireland. I was so proud to take that beautiful loaf to my class to share. Unfortunately, it was underdone in the center. Fortunately, my fellow classmates weren't picky.

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Cook the Book: 'Rose's Heavenly Cakes'

I make a mean Italian cream cake, but the key lime cake that was the groom's cake at my wedding is the best I've tasted recently.

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jcwest47 answered "Produce" to What's your favorite supermarket aisle?

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jcwest47 answered "Coke" to What Do You Call Cola Drinks

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jcwest47 answered "Empanadas " to What's Your Favorite Kind of Savory Pie?

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jcwest47 answered "Coconut Cream" to What's Your Favorite Kind of Pie?

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jcwest47 answered "The Dip Family (Guacamole, Ranch, 7-Layer)" to What's Your Favorite Football-Watching Snack Food?

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