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Food & Drink Delicious Differences: Potatoes Mashed potatoes. Fried potatoes. Hash browns. Baked potatoes. The list goes on for all the ways you can prepare potatoes in the kitchen.
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Food & Drink Going Rogue in the Kitchen Eventually, I did what most people do when they’re feeling confident in the kitchen. I whipped up a pot of homemade soup without any instructions.
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Food & Drink A Requiem for an Onion For thousands of years this pungent vegetable was recognized as not just a source of sustenance, but as medicine, an object of worship, and a culinary muse.
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Food & Drink March 16, 2020 | 6 min read Delicious Differences: Potatoes Mashed potatoes. Fried potatoes. Hash browns. Baked potatoes. The list goes on for all the ways you can prepare potatoes in the kitchen.
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Food & Drink March 16, 2020 | 5 min read Going Rogue in the Kitchen Eventually, I did what most people do when they’re feeling confident in the kitchen. I whipped up a pot of homemade soup without any instructions.
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Food & Drink June 11, 2020 | 10 min read A Requiem for an Onion For thousands of years this pungent vegetable was recognized as not just a source of sustenance, but as medicine, an object of worship, and a culinary muse.
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Food & Drink June 11, 2020 | 6 min read Distinctive Process: Nixtamalization As a girl, I always looked forward to taco night. While some moms saved time by using pre-formed taco shells, mine took tortillas to an all-new level.
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Food & Drink June 11, 2020 | 6 min read Food Traditions Family traditions don’t always have rhyme or reason, but they give us something to look forward to, and remind us to be grateful.
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Food & Drink June 17, 2020 | 4 min read Delicious Differences: Fish Fish takes so many different forms across the world that fish fanatics have plenty to celebrate — and plenty of tantalizing ways to prepare it.
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Food & Drink June 25, 2020 | 4 min read Passion of the Pit: America’s BBQ Traditions Who doesn’t love a good barbecue? Other than apple pie, you’d be hard-pressed to find another food group more synonymous with America.
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Food & Drink July 13, 2020 | 6 min read How Sausage Is Made: A Quarantine Diary By the second month of stay-at-home, after exhausting several streaming services’ back catalogs, I decided it was time to learn a new skill.
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Food & Drink July 15, 2020 | 5 min read Distinctive Process: Bamboo/Banana Leaf Steaming The practice of steaming food in bamboo and banana leaves goes back for centuries in tropical and subtropical areas like Asia and the Pacific islands.
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Food & Drink July 15, 2020 | 5 min read Delicious Differences: Cheese Cheese is arguably one of man’s greatest feats. Around the world, cheese is a large part of the culinary culture.
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Food & Drink July 20, 2020 | 5 min read A Beginner’s Guide to Fermentation In recent years, culinary trends have positioned fermented foods as a kind of specialty, but the art of fermentation is more common than you think.
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Food & Drink August 10, 2020 | 3 min read Delicious Differences: Corn In Mexico, maize is more than just a crop used for nourishment. It’s also a deeply embedded part of the culture.
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Food & Drink August 11, 2020 | 4 min read Distinctive Process: Smoking All it takes is one whiff of fire and smoke and I’m transported to one of my favorite memories — backyard barbecues with my dad.
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Food & Drink August 13, 2020 | 4 min read The Nuanced Language of Vinegar Generally speaking, there are five basic tastes that humans can perceive (possibly six according to this TED Talk).
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Food & Drink August 25, 2020 | 4 min read Delicious Differences: Wine The French chemist and microbiologist, Louis Pasteur, once said, “A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.”
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Food & Drink September 09, 2020 | 3 min read Sunshine Sipping: California’s Coffee Crop Cultivation What you might not know about coffee is the exciting trend of farmers in California growing coffee and the journey of some of these smaller bean coffees.
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Food & Drink September 10, 2020 | 5 min read Delicious Differences: Rice You might think rice is just a staple in your pantry. However, rice is more dynamic and versatile than you might think.
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Food & Drink September 11, 2020 | 3 min read Tools of the Trade When cooks want to get adventurous, many go global in the kitchen. Part of the fun of getting to know a new country is cooking and tasting its cuisine.
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Food & Drink September 15, 2020 | 3 min read Distinctive Process: Pickling Pickling and fermentation are two similar, but different, methods for preserving food. It’s been used for millennia — traced back to 7000 B.C.
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Food & Drink September 17, 2020 | 3 min read Distinctive Processes: Baking in Salt Crust If you’ve ever been to one of Thomas Keller’s Michelin-starred restaurants, you already know that there’s a lot on the menu that’s going to wow you.