Category Archives: Eating

Here we celebrate the best kind of food enjoyment: eating somebody else’s cooking, whether it be in a fine dining establishment or a hole in the wall.

Taste test: marinated mushrooms

I hoovered some delicious marinated mushrooms from the charcuterie board at a recent event and resolved to make them myself. Researching online recipes, I found a surprising variety of methods and even definitions of what “marinated mushrooms” implies. As executed, … Continue reading

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Lunch at Le Bernardin

I live 3 hours from one of the great restaurants of the world, so there was no excuse for not trying it at least once. My Yelp friend Louise G facilitated the reservations for lunch at Le Bernardin, which must … Continue reading

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Taste Test: Trader Joe’s Peanut Butter Cups

We are huge fans of dark chocolate Trader Joe’s Peanut Butter Cups. Here you have a perfect candy: a good quality chocolate shell with just the right amount of rigidity to resist then crack when you bite into it, enrobing … Continue reading

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Food for Thought: searching for culinary origins

Elizabeth Weil wrote an arresting culinary origins story a few years ago which was published in Saveur. It seems that Weil’s grandfather invented the Reuben Sandwich in the 1920s when he oversaw the kitchen at the Blackstone Hotel in Omaha, … Continue reading

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Recipe: Rueben (or Reuben) Sandwich

This Rueben sandwich is for people who spell it that way during searches when corned beef is popular around St. Patrick’s Day. It’s very similar to the Original Reuben Sandwich recipe presented in Saveur magazine by Elizabeth Weil, who claims … Continue reading

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Recipe: Acme Olive Bread I

Acme Olive Bread is an interesting creature. It combines the astringent bite of salt cured olives with a tender, almost fluffy crumb. We have posted several olive bread recipes and they’re all good, but a close rendition of Acme Olive … Continue reading

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Recipe: Puffy Italian Sub Rolls

At last! The puffy, yielding, open-crumb Italian sub rolls of my dreams. This has been a journey. We have published recipes for hoagie rolls, sub rolls and po’ boy rolls but none were truly the open crumb puffy submarine rolls you … Continue reading

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Toasted sesame oil: taste test

There’s no mistaking the taste of toasted sesame oil: sweet, nutty, caramelized like the aroma of a slice of bread just out of the toaster (some say the smell is the most important aspect, vs how it feels on your … Continue reading

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Breaking down a duck

For a brief moment, my local upscale market had frozen Pekin ducks for 6.99 a pound. My previous experience with frozen ducks was not satisfactory; the Maple Leaf Farms product at Hannaford was “just” $4.99/lb but included a pound of … Continue reading

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What to do with a jar of oysters?

My local Walmart (and probably yours) has a pint of shucked oysters in its small seafood area for a little over $13. This is a bargain in an era when the price of a happy hour oyster has climbed from … Continue reading

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