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Cook the Book: 'Endangered Recipes' by Lari Robling

Most of my favourite childhood food memories are now beyond what I can eat- much later I found out I had Celiac's and am allergic to dairy, but as a child I lived for the mornings my mother would make me cinnamon toast. We had a house in Connecticut we went to on the weekends and for the summer, and she would often make us cinnamon toast for breakfast. Whenever I was feeling unwell there she would make me a soup of chicken broth with tortellinis thrown in- so delicious. I haven't had a tortellini in so long and making them gluten free seems a little beyond my cooking capabilities, but I might have to try sometime soon.

Another amazing memory was a caramel cake made by my grandmother's best friend in Savannah- it took her two days to make but she always made it whenever I came to visit. Now that is a recipe I need to get so I can adapt it!

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Have you discovered any new amazing foods lately?

Pineapple- I've always hated all tropical fruits and would pick out pineapple out of any dish I was served with it. A few weeks ago it started appearing in all of my dreams, rather bizarrely, so I ended up buying some last week to try. It was so good that I've eaten it for breakfast every day since.

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Not Surprising: Vegans Have It Rough In Airports

As someone who has celiac's and is allergic to casein, traveling sucks.

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What's your favorite Chip/Snack and flavor?

Cheddar and sour cream ruffles are my absolute favourite but I'm not allowed to have them because once I do I need more and more and more. I mostly end up eating Dirty Jalapeno Heat potato chips and Baked Cheetos.

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Cook the Book: 'Endangered Recipes' by Lari Robling

Most of my favourite childhood food memories are now beyond what I can eat- much later I found out I had Celiac's and am allergic to dairy, but as a child I lived for the mornings my mother would make me cinnamon toast. We had a house in Connecticut we went to on the weekends and for the summer, and she would often make us cinnamon toast for breakfast. Whenever I was feeling unwell there she would make me a soup of chicken broth with tortellinis thrown in- so delicious. I haven't had a tortellini in so long and making them gluten free seems a little beyond my cooking capabilities, but I might have to try sometime soon.

Another amazing memory was a caramel cake made by my grandmother's best friend in Savannah- it took her two days to make but she always made it whenever I came to visit. Now that is a recipe I need to get so I can adapt it!

From Talk

Have you discovered any new amazing foods lately?

Pineapple- I've always hated all tropical fruits and would pick out pineapple out of any dish I was served with it. A few weeks ago it started appearing in all of my dreams, rather bizarrely, so I ended up buying some last week to try. It was so good that I've eaten it for breakfast every day since.

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Not Surprising: Vegans Have It Rough In Airports

As someone who has celiac's and is allergic to casein, traveling sucks.

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What's your favorite Chip/Snack and flavor?

Cheddar and sour cream ruffles are my absolute favourite but I'm not allowed to have them because once I do I need more and more and more. I mostly end up eating Dirty Jalapeno Heat potato chips and Baked Cheetos.

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Win Fuchsia Dunlop's 'Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper'

Xiang Luo Bu Si (Sounding Radish Slivers) and General Tso's Chicken (Fuschia's version is amazing!).

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Sugar Rush: Sweet Rice Twist from Koryodang

Ahhh shit, I heard someone mention this doughnut before and I was so excited to try it since I was told it was just mochi flour, no wheat. Why does there have to be high gluten flour in it?!? Some of us are allergic! I'm so sad now...

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Savory Watermelon Salad?

I add watermelon to my grandmother's radish salad recipe, and it is delicious. Just thinly sliced radishes, thinly sliced onion, diced fresh tomato, salt, minced garlic, pepper, finely chopped fresh basil, lemon juice, safflower oil
and a little parsley. I think I'm going to make some today!

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What to dip my french fries in...

Hot sauce and homemade mayo!

My favourite thing back home in England is either curry chips/fries or gravy ones- or gravy and cheese! Yum!

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Candy Design Gone Wrong

I'm trying to figure out why someone would think kids would want gummi lighthouses in the first place...

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What foods are uniquely '80s'?

Tricolor pasta always comes to mind (especially in a pasta salad- pasta salads were huge!)
Sushi.
Sundried tomatoes started being used all the time.
Anything from Abby Mandel's Cuisinart Cookbook or the Silver Spoon (so right!).
California cuisine.
Quiche.
Big League Chew (I know it's gum but it is in all of my memories as a child).
Lean cuisines.
Frozen french bread pizza.

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Name 5 THINGS ALWAYS in Your FRIDGE!

Dijon mustard
Secret aardvark habenero sauce
radishes
hummus
film (I'm a photographer, and even though I have another fridge only for film at my studio I still use half the fridge for film just in case...)

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Blue Hill at Stone Barns: The Most Important Restaurant in America

Has anyone been there in the fall? I'd love to go up there during a weekend birthday trip but that isn't until November. Is it still as spectacular?

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The Ultimate Cleanse?

Oh, and I lost 15 lbs the last time- I gained around 7 lbs back within the first couple days, but since then my weight has stabilized and all of my clothes are much looser.

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The Ultimate Cleanse?

I've done the Master Cleanse several times and I love it- my boyfriend and I actually finished a 15 day cleanse two weeks ago, and I'm planning on doing another one soon. I just feel so much healthier when I'm on it and for awhile after it. The first few days are the worst- serious hell. This last time all I wanted were pork ribs- I had dreams about them, but luckily the cravings went away after a few days. I know it sounds crazy but the lemonade is actually pretty tasty, except I use agave nectar instead of maple syrup.

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What Totally Embarassing Food Products Do You Love?

Cheetos and Kraft Macaroni and cheese- basically anything with fake orange cheese... yum!


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Dinner Tonight: Tartiflette

My family in the Alps makes this for me everytime I visit- so yummy with all that cheese, bacon and cream...

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Southern Foodways: Lucky New Year's Dishes

I made Hoppin' John and collard greens, and my half Filipino boyfriend made spare ribs and sauerkraut, which he says is a good luck tradition in his family. A very yummy and lucky feast!

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What Five Foods Can't You Live Without?

1. Hot wings
2. French fries
3. Strawberries
4. Dumplings (any kind)
5. Creamed spinach

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Cook the Book: 'Endangered Recipes' by Lari Robling

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Cook the Book: 'Endangered Recipes' by Lari Robling

My fondest memories are my mother cooking and baking Christmas dinner with all the trimmings and cakes and pies. garrettsambo@aol.com

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Cook the Book: 'Endangered Recipes' by Lari Robling

most of my favorite food memories are from when we used to go camping. I don't know why, but everything always used to taste better when camping. I think my favorite food memory was the first time my dad cooked turkey on a grill (while camping of course). Not only was I amazed that you could cook a turkey anywhere but the oven, it was also the best turkey that I had ever had.

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Cook the Book: 'Endangered Recipes' by Lari Robling

My fondest childhood food memory is anything with my grandma. Seems she was cooking all the time, and the kitchen really was the heart of the home. Wether it was eggs and bacon for breakfast or a large family celebration, grandma always did it all, and with love. I do remember that she had to make meat and potatoes for grandpas lunch everyday!

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Cook the Book: 'Endangered Recipes' by Lari Robling

my fav childhood memory regarding food centers around anything my grandmother let me get involved in making. but the memory that stands out the most is distinctly remembering making homemade gnocchi with my grandmother many times...rolling out the dough, cutting it into small pieces and then using our thumbs to make the indent....

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Cook the Book: 'Endangered Recipes' by Lari Robling

homemade vanilla ice cream and brownies on the 4th of july around the fire pit while watching fireworks from the backyard.

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Cook the Book: 'Endangered Recipes' by Lari Robling

my fondest childhood food memories are watching my mom cook and bake

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Cook the Book: 'Endangered Recipes' by Lari Robling

Everything my Grandma cooked was delicious but her breakfasts were my favorite. As a kid I couldn't wait for morning to come! She'd bake biscuits from scratch mixing with the scents of bacon, home fries and scrambled eggs with vegetables.

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Cook the Book: 'Endangered Recipes' by Lari Robling

My mom's spaghetti and meatballs. The home made sauce was so good!

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Cook the Book: 'Endangered Recipes' by Lari Robling

My fondest memory was during the summer. The entire family would get together on a hot summer evening and we would use a hand crank ice cream machine to make some of the best tasting icecream ever

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Cook the Book: 'Endangered Recipes' by Lari Robling

I remember eating pancakes and waffles for dinner sometimes and it was such a treat. That's still a feel good food for me.

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Cook the Book: 'Endangered Recipes' by Lari Robling

My grandmother's seafood gumbo - she made it over a fire in a big pot in the backyard. She lived two blocks from the beach in Mississippi, and when she was ready to add the shrimp and crabs, my dad and uncle would go down to the boats and buy it fresh, and add it to the gumbo.

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Cook the Book: 'Endangered Recipes' by Lari Robling

My grandmother made the best stew, ever. She made it in a pressure cooker and every one of us has tried to duplicate it with her recipe but none are the same- ours are good hers was beyond outstanding.

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Cook the Book: 'Endangered Recipes' by Lari Robling

The first time I had Greek food at a restaurant in St. Augustine, FL.

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Cook the Book: 'Endangered Recipes' by Lari Robling

My Grandfather making breakfast. He was a silent man and showed his love by doing something special for his grandkids. When spending the night has his house we would wake up every morning to his cooking bacon, fried eggs and toast. The eggs cooked in the bacon grease. He never altered his menu and continued this even when I was an adult. He passed away over 20 years ago and miss his special love.

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Cook the Book: 'Endangered Recipes' by Lari Robling

While my mom would bake from a recipe, I would mix ingredients to my liking alongside. She would write down the measurements I used in the off chance I made something edible. Most of my baked goods tasted like baking soda.

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Cook the Book: 'Endangered Recipes' by Lari Robling

one of my earliest memories is my father cooking fresh caught fish with lots of oil in a cast iron pan

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Cook the Book: 'Endangered Recipes' by Lari Robling

Grilled steak cooked over real wood fire in the living room fireplace. Never tasted anything else that was quite the same.

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Cook the Book: 'Endangered Recipes' by Lari Robling

My fondest childhood memory is the year I received an Easybake oven for Christmas. My sister and I made stuff all day long.

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Cook the Book: 'Endangered Recipes' by Lari Robling

roast beef and yorkshire pudding I can make a great roast but my yorkshire pudding has never been as good as moms and grams

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Cook the Book: 'Endangered Recipes' by Lari Robling

My favorite memory is of helping my mom bake "Brown Cookies" on snow days. When there was a snowstorm and school was called off, my mother, who was a high school Home Economics teacher, would immediately get out her grandmother's recipe for soft molasses cookies. I was always fascinated by the jar of slow-moving molasses, the yellow measuring cups, and the point at which the dough became something delicious enough to taste. Mom insisted I use a clean spoon for each sample, so I would always end up using up all of the spoons in the silverware drawer.

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Cook the Book: 'Endangered Recipes' by Lari Robling

My favorite food memory is my father making up dishes as he went along. One day my mother left chili in a crock pot and he decided to add noodles to it. It would have been really good, perhaps, if the noodles were cooked when he added them. Instead, the uncooked noodles sort of made a mess. Never one to be daunted, he fried up that mess and it was very good.

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Cook the Book: 'Endangered Recipes' by Lari Robling

As a youngster living in Harrison, NJ. I would wake up every morning to the aroma of Pechter's bakery. Every Sunday morning I would wander over to their outlet store and purchase a still-warm Kaiser Roll ($0.13), and a loaf of Jewish Rye ($0.80 and also warm). On the way back home, one more stop at the corner market for a tub of whipped butter and a Sunday Times. The next few hours were blissfully spent with hot coffee, buttered rye toast, and for lunch, a hot Taylor Ham sandwich on the fabled Kaiser Roll. I have since moved to Colorado where I must bake my own bread and coerce family members into overnighting Taylor Ham for Christmas gifts, but nonetheless, the memories will never fade.

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Cook the Book: 'Endangered Recipes' by Lari Robling

My grandmother always makes cranberry salad at Thanksgiving, though every year she makes a huge bowl and says, "Now, I only made this for you and me, because no one else likes it." Though everyone takes a polite serving she and I always get seconds and sometimes thirds.

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