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Balsamic vinegar - a sour note - 7 May 2008
If ever there was a food fad that didn't do the original product any good, it's balsamic vinegar. read more...
Olive oil - 23 Nov 2007
Olive oil is expensive enough that it should be chosen with care and properly looked after. read more...
Slow Braised Beef Short Ribs - 16 Nov 2007
Who ever says 'No' to a comforting dish of slow-cooked beef packed with flavor falling off bones? It doesn't need to be below freezing to reach for this recipe from Brian McBride, chef of The Blue Duck Tavern. It's good with a salad in high summer, too. read more...
Figs - fresh - 15 Nov 2007
One of the best treats of the fall, they don't come cheap. So it's a disappointment when you open your wrapped box and find some of them rotten. read more...
Flambéed Figs with Goat Cheese and Proscuitto - 10 Nov 2007
Janis McLean, chef of The Morrison-Clark Inn, turns dried, not fresh, figs into an appetizer or something to pass around with cocktails that's a little out of the ordinary. It's a good recipe for the holiday season. read more...
Panzanella - 10 Nov 2007
For this simply prepared Italian salad from Ruth Gresser, owner-chef of Pizza Paradiso, it's worth waiting for the tomatoes of high summer and using a good loaf of bread. But sometimes you need a reminder of summer in the dead of winter, and this recipe will deliver it. read more...
Grilled Watermelon Salad with Country Ham, Pine Nuts and Watercress - 10 Nov 2007
This is a stunningly pretty summer salad, pitching the raspberry red of the watermelon against the deep green of the watercress, from Tom Green, chef of the Kennedy Center. And it's refreshing, unusual and easy to make. read more...
The resume of Michael Santoro, new chef de cuisine at The Blue Duck Tavern, reads like a guide to good restaurants around the world. In England he’s worked at Heston Blumental's The Fat Duck and with bad-boy-but brilliant Tom Aiken, as well as Fergus Henderson. He’s been through the kitchens of the one-star Mugaritz Restaurant near San Sebastian, Spain. He’s worked at Mill’s Tavern in Providence, RI. He’s served as sous chef at the Michelin one-star Restaurant Gilt in New York. And before joining The Blue Duck Tavern he was chef de cuisine at Boqueria, a popular Spanish restaurant in Manhattan.
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