A few years back after I took a couple canning classes I decided to take preserving the insane summer bounty of SoCal tomatoes seriously. Now every summer during the hottest weather possible I stew in my own juices as I can enough tomato products to last
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Languages and cooking. They're totally related for me. And I'm pretty sure I love them equally. Just as a couple of spices and a few vegetables can reveal a flavor palate, so the subtleties of language reveal a cultures insides. I'm pretty fluent in Italian,
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The other day I rang pal Bill Esparza to ask if he had any food adventures coming up. I wanted to tag along. He suggested a 4:30am start to drink spiked hot chocolate with milk straight from the cow's teat. I had good intentions. I
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The picture above show one of the bags of samples I collected from the Natural Products Expo in Anaheim. Driving home with it in my car was one of the more dangerous driving experiences I've had recently. Some folks seemed to be collecting enough to furnish
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Breakfast this weekend was punctuated with a pronouncement from The Mom. “The best fish I ever ate”, this from a women who has been eating cured, smoked, salted, baked salmon for 94 years. I may be a native Los Angelena, but you can’t deny eastern
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