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We tried the Decades Menu at Taco Bell (so you don’t have to).

Like Taylor Swift, Taco Bell is currently drawing on its history to put together an episodic menu. Unlike Taylor Swift, Taco Bell doesn’t have much of a catalog considering their products endlessly repeat the same small set of ingredients. Against … Continue reading

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Making the PBC sandwich from Heinz

The PBC sandwich from Heinz does not incorporate peanut butter and cheese as you might expect (though we approve of that combination). It’s peanut butter, bacon and chili sauce from a recipe that appeared in the 1933 Heinz Salad Cookbook. … Continue reading

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Recipe: Chocolate Saratogas

Chocolate Saratogas are the contribution of Mrs. Frank H. Miller, daughter of former Senator from Missouri Edward V. Long, to the Congressional Club Cookbook (1993 Edition). There is a tradition of crackers with chocolate in the South, but I have … Continue reading

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Recipe: Spicy Eggplant with Miso

We had fond memories of the spicy eggplant with miso recipe from Japanese Country Cookbook, an artful paperback issued by the long-closed Mingei-Ya in San Francisco. But when we picked up a used copy we were surprised to discover most … Continue reading

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Nostalgia recipes from The Daily Meal

Have you ever clicked on the Daily Meal link at the very bottom of our page? You should! In addition to supporting blogs like this one (members of the Culinary Content Network) they publish content, mostly aggregating existing recipes, that … Continue reading

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Golden oldies from Burnt My Fingers

September is the anniversary month of this blog, wherein we reveal the posts that have garnered the most views over the past 12 months. In the next couple of weeks we’ll report on the most popular recipes, then the most … Continue reading

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Recipe: Steak with Cream Corn

Cream corn is something you grew up with if you lived in the south or midwest, but it’s available in most U.S. grocery stores. It’s cooked corn niblets in an umami milky base, produced by squeezing the liquid out of … Continue reading

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Recipe: Porcupines (Meat Balls with Rice)

I tinkered with Dorothy Crum’s very plain recipe in the Phi Beta Phi cookbook by adding the ingredients marked with a *. Makes six porcupines. Ingredients: 1 lb lean ground beef ½ c uncooked rice ½ chopped onion 1 clove … Continue reading

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Recipe: Chef Salad

Is it Chef Salad or Chef’s Salad? Considering its roots in the aspirational 1950s, “Chef” might have been some food writer’s idea of a descriptive adjective connoting quality—the kind of salad a chef (as opposed to a mere cook) might … Continue reading

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Recipe: French* Dressing

Here’s a midcentury classic from a jingoistic time when Americans (and specifically Kraft Foods) were happy to take international flavors and give them a uniquely inauthentic makeover. French Dressing is tangy, a bit heavy, but delicious on a composed Chef Salad … Continue reading

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