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Nov 2
Water - a quote
"Shapes cooked in water in order to make something to eat." Rachel Roddy Rachel Roddy is, of course, talking about pasta, but what she...
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Sep 4
The comfort of Heinz tomato soup
"I can still remember the taste of those Scottish rolls and butter and the warm, tangy tomato soup, a real childhood treat." Man Has a...
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Aug 29
Blending cultures/culture wars in New York
"Chopped cheese isn't a Philly cheesesteak nor is it similar. This is New York, not Philly, bro!" Romel Bruno/Serious Eats This is a...
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Jul 21
Rambling around osso buco
“the meat soft as the leg of an angel who has lived a purely airborne existence.” Billy Collins This post is all down to a first recipe...
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Jul 18
Spaghetti pie, cake, slice ...
"simple, luxurious, yet slightly trashy" Jamie Oliver I didn't get to finish this post yesterday because I spent too much time in the...
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Jul 14
Napoleon cake - layers of meaning
"as each family makes it their own way, you’d be pressed to find two recipes that agree on what makes a perfect one." Deb...
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Jun 8
Cobblers - anything goes comfort food
"The whole point of cobbler is that it's easy" Daniel Gritzer/Serious Eats It's a miserable kind of day - the sort of day when your...
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May 13
"Finland is the green vigour of a forest"
"Much Finnish cooking suggests the outdoors, the pleasures of the campfire." Dale Brown - Time/Life The Cooking of Scandinavia Finland...
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May 11
Feeling lazy? Puttanesca to the rescue
"Puttanesca - Although you will often see its Italian name explained as meaning “whore’s pasta” in English, the general consensus seems...
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Feb 22
Tumact me tulez (tumacë me tulë)
"a deeply good dish with anchovies, walnuts, breadcrumbs and Albanian roots, from Barile in Basilicata." Rachel Roddy My husband tells...
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Jan 16
How basic can you get? Bread sauce
"Bread sauce: pure, holy, special, gentle, and kind." Ruby Lott-Lavigna/Vice (The version above is Easy bread sauce from James Martin,...
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Jan 6
Salmon and pesto
This is going to be our dinner tonight - Delia's Roasted salmon fillets with a crusted pecorino and pesto topping. I'm pretty sure I've...
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Dec 22, 2023
Christmas is ... pavlova
"the world's greatest pudding" Stuart Heritage/The Guardian "I do feel like passionfruit and Pav is just quintessentially Aussie!" Nagi...
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Nov 9, 2023
The internet does not know everything
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge." Daniel J. Boorstin This was just going to be...
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Oct 22, 2023
Chowder
"A velvety mélange of fresh clams, sweet cream and even fresher corn off the cob, it is definitely more than a mere pottage. It is...
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Oct 17, 2023
Hot sauce - or is it a bath?
"it is a dish which essentially needs the accompaniment of plenty of strong coarse red wine, such as the local Barbera. It is also...
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Aug 31, 2023
The Country captain dispute(s)
"I have yet to find two explanations for the name of this dish that agree!" Madhur Jaffrey Or two recipes that more or less align come...
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Aug 23, 2023
Crunchy spaghetti
"to move freely, a starting point is required" Rachel Roddy My starting point today is this dish - Spaghetti all'assassina which Rachel...
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Aug 16, 2023
A goddess steak
"stories and recipes are like sauce in a pan: they move differently in each telling and in each pair of hands. A recipe is advice, but...
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May 17, 2023
Noodle politics
“The message I received along with my journey in my quest to discover the identity of the noodle was that no one culture ‘owns’ a...
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