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basil, fresh or dried.

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the most important element of cooking: fresh ingredients.

a product is as good as its parts.

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Baba Ganush with warm pita bread.

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Marion Cunningham, hands down.

The first real cookbook I ever owned was Fannie Farmer. I've collected and used many others since then, but she's a standard and I'll never let her go!

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Age 5, breakfast in bed for my parent's wedding anniversary.

Toast: black and burning at the edges

Scrambeled eggs: a hard blob of yellow and white

orange juice: spilled all over the toast and eggs.

Nevertheless, we went to the diner for breakfast that morning.

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Hands down my mother. She's a great cook, but difficult for others to cook with her. Every time I am at home I try to learn something new from her in the kitchen, but her impatience often drives me right out.

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Snapshots from Asia: Traditional Chinese Medicine for Yuppies

This is very interesting to see on Serious Eats, especially since I grew up with family members telling me to avoid this or eat that whenever I was sick or not feeling well. Hot and cold foods were always being shoved in front of me or taken away. Recently my chinese doctor banned cold drinks from my diet (while I suffer through another Taipei summer).

However, I would be cautious to say that it is based in "Buddhism Daoism" beliefs. I think you need to either define that better (i.e. what part of buddhism or daoist thought/ideology/belief ?) or understand and explain the other elements of traditional chinese medicinal thought that also play a huge role in how Chinese view certain types of foods.

Quite frankly this explaination simplifies too much of traditional Chinese medicinal theory (as much as its for "Yuppies", something as complex as this subject is needs much more clarification). You've opened a bag of tricks with this subject, I think an updated post or additional posts are most certainly warranted.

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Weekend Book Giveaway: The Oxford Companion to Italian Food

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Weekend Book Giveaway: The Oxford Companion to Italian Food

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Weekend Book Giveaway: The Oxford Companion to Italian Food

Pennyroyal is from the mint genus and has a very strong spearmint smell. Nepitella, by contrast, is like a minty oregano and tastes amazing with shrimp.

My favorite Italian ingredient is rosemary. I use it in almost every Italian dish I make - I even use the plant's thickest stalks as skewers for roasting shrimp, chicken, beef, and/or potatoes on the barbecue. Next to oregano (or nepitella when I can find it), rosemary is by far my favorite.

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Weekend Book Giveaway: The Oxford Companion to Italian Food

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Weekend Book Giveaway: The Oxford Companion to Italian Food

garlic and olive oil

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Weekend Book Giveaway: The Oxford Companion to Italian Food

extra virgin olive oil: classic, essential, delicious.

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Weekend Book Giveaway: The Oxford Companion to Italian Food

garlic and olive oil

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Weekend Book Giveaway: The Oxford Companion to Italian Food

Mozzarella! Is there anything it can't improve?

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Weekend Book Giveaway: The Oxford Companion to Italian Food

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Weekend Book Giveaway: The Oxford Companion to Italian Food

Mozzarela cheese is it - pizza, lasagna, etc.