Evan Kleiman,
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The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook

The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook

Fried Cauliflower Frittata Rhubarb Blintzes Green Pea Schnitzel topped with a fried egg Beefsteak from Fresh Mushrooms These sound like dishes you might find from a contemporary chef using the farmers markets to re-tool heavy Eastern European dishes.  But no, they were published in 1938 by teacher and restaurant

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Dai Due Live Fire Cooking Line

Dai Due in Austin

Spend time with Jesse Griffiths at his live fire restaurant Dai Due in Austin and you want to stay there and help hunt, butcher, forage, pickle and bake.  His is a seamless culinary aesthetic that honors honest ingredients, cooks, the live fire of chuck wagon cookery, and the

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Thoughts on Mom's 95th Birthday

Today Mom is 95

And it's shocking.  As much to her as to those who gather around her.   No one in her family has come close to such an extended life. And as a smoker and eater everyone around her assumed she would be one of the first to

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