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Cooking with Kids: Toy Doner Kebab
lagomorph, you raise a good point, and I am not qualified to say whether this is a doner kebab or a gyro, since I have not tasted it.
Cooking With Kids: Food Pyramid for Preschoolers
Yeah, a lot of stuff on the site is reasonable. Not the part about low-fat cheese, though.
Cooking With Kids: Food Pyramid for Preschoolers
"Anyway, Matthew, I do agree with them that it's an important time for establishing food habits--it sounds like you do yourself, because you're reinforcing the habit that food is something to be enjoyed."
That's not what they mean, Wendy. They mean that taste preferences harden during this time like yesterday's Play-Doh. It's absurd.
delilah, I know a lot of adventurous eaters who grew up eating crap. That doesn't make your argument wrong, since you did say "usually," but I'm skeptical.
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About Matthew Amster-Burton
Website: http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/
Location: Seattle
About: I write for Serious Eats, the Seattle Times, Seattle Magazine, Culinate.com, and probably other places.
Favorite foods: phad thai dan dan noodles brussels sprouts
Last bite on earth: The skulls of my enemies.
Couldn't agree more, Ed.
Just to be clear, I don't think there was anything remotely unusual about the interviews I did with Bianco. This is just the way he talks, and I think it's charming and funny, so I wanted to highlight it. And yes, I made it absolutely clear that I was a writer for Gourmet. The thing that struck me when I first met him last year is that aside from being a great pizza maker, this guy is a world-class character, and I'd never seen that highlighted. Which is weird, because most reporters love pizza, love eccentric characters, and curse a lot.
This was not a "David Chang move" for Bianco. It's just Bianco. He's not going to swear at people who come to his restaurant; he's just going to make them life-changing pizza.