It happened that Good Food was nominated for a Beard Award and I found myself in NYC with an unbooked Saturday. I remembered a New York Times article I read on League of Kitchens, a unique organization that offers cooking classes taught by immigrant home cooks. I
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Several years ago, 2004 in fact, I became obsessed with Nigella Lawson's Chocolate Gingerbread from her cookbook Feast. I made it once then another thirty times. Why? It's a perfect foolproof cake with holiday flavor that is dead simple, not just to make but to
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Food celebrating the Jewish New Year is generally characterized by sweetness as celebrants hope for a sweet and fruitful year. The most emblematic memory I have of the holiday is dipping apples into honey. I suspect you know where I going with this idea. The Jewish Journal asked
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It's KCRW Pie Contest season. Our 8th, if you can believe it. It takes a village to put the day together for the thousands who show up to appreciate and gorge on pie so this year we reached out to sponsors. We found a perfect one.
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I'm sure that tucking a bit of leftover food into a sheet of pasta aka ravioli had its origins in creating abundance from very little. They are the perfect food to use up leftovers. You just need two things. Some fresh egg pasta in your freezer and
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