Archive for August, 2006
Wednesday, August 30th, 2006
Tiny Bites for Tickling the Mouth
Today’s Dining In section of the NY Times carried an article by Melissa Clark entitled “Tiny Come-Ons, Plain and Fancy” about the amuse-bouche–literal translation ‘mouth pleaser’–as a prelude to dinner.
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Saturday, August 26th, 2006
Dine Out for the Gulf
This coming Tuesday, August 29, 2006, is the national Restaurants for Relief2 dine out evening. Across the country, participating restaurants will donate a portion of their proceeds to Share Our Strength’s Hurricane Katrina relief fund.
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Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006
Oops, Forgot Delovely Lavender
I realized that from my soapbox perch I had neglected to include the lavender dressing recipe the filing of which launched the whole World According to AARP blog the other day. Mea culpa!
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Monday, August 21st, 2006
Longevity: The World According to AARP
I clipped a good looking recipe for a Lavender Vinaigrette dressing out of my local paper the other day and as I was filing it away, I noticed a little blurb in the Food & News Notes with this headline:
AARP Shares some secrets to longevity
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Friday, August 18th, 2006
By Request: Warm Sesame and Ginger Spinach Salad
Several of you noticed in my Toast of the Town blog the other day the mention of an Asian -inspired warm spinach salad and inquired about the recipe. It’s great as a summer side dish, but also makes the base of a fabulous entree salad, topped with grilled salmon or stir-fried shrimp, chicken, or beef.
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Tuesday, August 15th, 2006
Toast of the Town
No, this blog isn’t about booze! Remember, I swore an oath to abstain from alcohol-related bloggery until after Labor Day. Rather, it’s about a great little gadget–called a Spice Toaster–that I saw on the FoodfStuff pages of the NY Times a few weeks ago. It’s sort of like a cross between a tiny old-fashioned popcorn popper or antique bed-warmer and a fine mesh strainer.
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Friday, August 11th, 2006
As the Worm Turns: To Sushi or Not to Sushi
The title of a recent article in the Health & Fitness section of the New York Times immediately caught my eye: Tale of the Tapeworm (Sqeamish Readers Stop Here)…
(but I didn’t stop, I read, so read on)
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Sunday, August 6th, 2006
A Cut Above
The New York Times Sunday Magazine a while back carried an article entitled “Super Cuts” in its cooking feature “The Way We Eat” by Daniel Patterson. (Try though I might to find it elsewhere on the net, I could only come up with the NY Times archive, which can only be had free to subscribers, though there is a 14-day Free Trial Offer available.) The piece detailed the rising trend among top chefs of offering off-beat, oft-neglected, less expensive cuts of meat on their menus: pig’s feet, beef and veal cheeks, lamb’s neck, pork belly, and others. The great wide world of meat out there beyond steaks, ribs, and shoulders. For those who complain that a meat-based diet is just too expensive, they offer a reasonable (and flavorful) solution.
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Tuesday, August 1st, 2006
Popcorn Snacker Alert: Pop Goes the Diacetyl
A recent article in the LA Times gives us yet another good reason to eschew microwave popcorn: the flavor agent, diacetyl, widely used to give microwave popcorn its buttery flavor has been tied to the development of an irreversible lung disease called bronchiolitis obliterans that’s been cropping up with alarming regularity in the workers at popcorn factories.
