I am not a stickler pickler

I will admit off the bat that I didn’t follow this recipe to a tee. I would’ve liked to have honored it completely; most chefs say you should always follow a recipe exactly as it states the first time you make it, then you can fuss around with it and make it your own the [...]

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Mmm, memories

We were in NJ on Saturday en route to visiting family, so we stopped at the giant Wal-Mart-ish Korean food shopping complex in Ridgefield, NJ, called Hmart. A smaller outpost is right smack in the middle of 32nd Street, but this sprawling market is no joke. You want a trip back to your motherland down [...]

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Agenda: Ingredient hunting, planning ahead

At last, I picked up a bottle of sherry vinegar for the rhubarb pickle project: El Majuelo Vinagre de Jerez. Except I bought the rhubarb stalks a week and a half ago, and now they’re flaccid from spending a long time in the crisper. (Then why are they called crispers?) How do I live with [...]

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Let us explore this dichotomy

…of liking the recipe but being skeptical of the source. I’ve heard some Stories about Johnny Iuzzini from fellow classmates (that’s not a typo, stories with a capital “S”). And c’mon! His book is called Dessert Fourplay! Its tagline should really be Mining the Sexual Fantasies of Hungry Suburban Housewives. But good for him, cashing [...]

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