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Favorite foods: I love food and the sharing there of. It's all good! The only things I don't like are shrimp, radishes, and beats. I'll try anything new, once!

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Cook the Book: Apple Pie

I love apples! I love apple pie! I love to bake apple pie! Apple pie is the all american comfort food! It gets no better than good apple pie!

smokingina at 3:04PM on 10/19/07

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Cook the Book: 'Cucina del Sole'

I'm not totaly sure it's southern, but I love any pasta with carbanara sauce. I recently had baked angelhair carbanara that was very garlicy, it was oh so tasty. Not sure about authenticity, but I'll be having it again.

smokingina at 2:32PM on 08/01/07

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The Fat Germ: The Thin Friend Solution (Not)

I've always been ...well I don't like any of those words, but the artist Rubens would have liked me. My friends & family run the gamet, from one extreme to the other &everything in between. Still I'd like to find someone to blame, so heres to all the "experts" keep tryin' people!

smokingina at 1:54PM on 07/28/07

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Gas vs. Charcoal Grilling: Where Do You Stand?

CHARCOAL , or a a wood fire when camping. Know &love people who use gas,but just don't get it. I'm with nybiteclub, you might as well cook it inside.

smokingina at 1:22PM on 07/28/07

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Cook the Book: 'The Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook'

I love all southern foods. This said, my all time favorite had to be my Nanas fried chicken. I used to ask for it for my birthday and I would dream about it untill the day came. Nana just turned 90 the 22nd of July and still makes the best fryed chicken!

smokingina at 7:43PM on 07/26/07

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Cook the Book: Apple Pie

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roboppy at 9:35PM on 10/22/07

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Cook the Book: Apple Pie

A few years ago my mom and I set out to make the best apple pie. We tried a few different recipes but eventually combined recipes and our own baking genius to come up with a crumb topping apple pie that is definitely the best I've ever had. I think I'm getting hungry...

woodenspoon at 9:06AM on 10/20/07

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Cook the Book: Apple Pie

My boyfriend prides himself on his apple pie making skills. This year, we used fresh apples from the farmers market and it made a sure difference! The apples were small so it took a lot more but the flavor was outstanding. The pies turn out so flavorful that just when you turn around for another slice, there are only crumbs because no one can leave it just sitting there.

cptrombone at 5:03PM on 10/19/07

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Cook the Book: Apple Pie

I make the best apple pie that I know, though I think I might be trying out a recipe that I just saw on this site. Yum.

Jsmith at 5:00PM on 10/19/07

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Cook the Book: Apple Pie

I make the best apple pie that I know of. I can't wait for apple picking season to start, and then I go crazy.

iahawk89 at 3:20PM on 10/19/07

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Cook the Book: 'Cucina del Sole'

Something chicken with a lot of sauce.

Mike13241 at 10:58PM on 08/03/07

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Cook the Book: 'Cucina del Sole'

i don't know what region gelato is from, but I will go with gelato anyway. Nothing else in Italy matters when compared to gelato. in fact, nothing in the world matters when you've got gelato. i don't even care what flavor it is. if it's gelato from Italy, it's gotta be good.

mercuryhime at 10:12PM on 08/03/07

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Cook the Book: 'Cucina del Sole'

Got to be pesto!

dexter at 8:28PM on 08/03/07

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Cook the Book: 'Cucina del Sole'

I'm fascinated that so many people picked caponata as a favorite Southern Italian dish--it may just be my favorite, though Lord knows there's lots from which to choose. But caponata seems like such a right-now dish, hot summer days, a dish you can prepare in the cool of the early morning and serve--with drinks, with dinner, whatever--once the heat of the day has passed over the yardarm, it's perfect for August.
I also want to mention that I have been made aware since writing Cucina del Sole of the serious depletion of stocks of bluefin tuna in the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean (it's the same population, in different phases of activity). Delicious as the various tuna dishes are in the book, I wouldn't and couldn't in good conscience recommend using Atlantic bluefin tuna any more. Give the poor fish a rest--most of those dishes are just as good or almost as good using swordfish or even salmon instead.
Nancy Harmon Jenkins

nancyjay at 6:20PM on 08/03/07

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Cook the Book: 'Cucina del Sole'

Spaghetti all vongole... My mother-in-laws' was made with squid instead of clams though. :)

cheffy at 1:34PM on 08/03/07