CookBooks, Fantasy Food and Sandwiches : Irresistibly Satisfying!

Mediterranean and Eastern European recipes ~
In Israel, a Pork Cookbook Challenges a Taboo

"A Pork Cookbook in Israel? A retired cardiologist has written “The White Book,” touted as the first cookbook of its kind. (Not Kosher)"

Any author has to deal with bad reviews, but how about the wrath of God?
Read more: In Israel, a Pork Cookbook Challenges a Taboo; nytimes.com

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"Sugar, (Merilyn Monroe): A herring? Isn't it amazing how they get those big fish into those little glass jars?
Junior, (Tony Curtis): They shrink when they're marinated."
Memorable quotes for "Some Like It Hot" (1959); imdb.com

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Irresistibly Satisfying
~ A double-dip economic downturn would just be au jus to resilient, reinvented, recession-proof sandwich...
Read more: The 7 Best Sandwiches You'll Want Next; thestreet.com

~ Sandwiches have graduated from the lunchbox to trendy restaurants. Here, great ethnic-inspired variations...
Read more: The (New) Sandwich Generation; more.com

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Food Festivals
Whatever the temperature, whether the leaves are beginning to turn, celebrations of national and local foodways show no sign of slowing down...

Read more: October Food Festivals; slashfood.com

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Food Stories
~ Artifice and illusion are essential ingredients in creating fantasy food, but without real imagination...
Read more: Fantasy food cookbooks; guardian.co.uk

~ 'Waiter, there's a fly in my soup!' From the grotesque to the hilarious, serve us up some food-related horror stories...
Read more: Non-essential ingredients; guardian.co.uk

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Cooking the Books with
~ Lidia Bastianch known for her Italian cookbooks and restaurants, has another role that she deems just as (if not even more) important: grandmother...
Read more: Chef writes 'Nonna Tell Me a Story' - Lidia Bastianich; publishersweekly.com

~ Harold McGee’s On Food and Cooking is that rare kitchen reference commonly found in restaurants and homes...
Read more: Discussing the 'Keys to Good Cooking' - Harold McGee; publishersweekly.com

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Food on Film
Mincing No Words Even the late master Surrealist filmmaker Luis Buñuel, he of the famous slit eyeball, would likely agree with...
Read more: Blood, Sweat & Jeers; foodarts.com

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Mysterious Alchemists
If you've ever looked at food on a page - in a cookbook, a magazine or an advertisement - you've probably seen Delores Custer at work...
Read more: White plates, light garnish: Learn from the food stylist; charlotteobserver.com

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Rock Oysters
An e-mail titled “Living the dream”. Attached is a photograph, of five young people eating oysters in a field, with Stonehenge in the background...
Read more: The raw, the fried and the cooked; ft.com

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Food Trend Alert ~
Sardines Make a Serious Comeback Amongst Environmentalists, Health Nuts, and Foodies

"Eating tuna and salmon is the functional equivalent of eating grizzly bears and cougars on land"

Sardine Sustainability - Sardines are on the Monterey Bay Aquarium green list because they are sustainably managed and...
Read more: Food Trend Alert: Sardines Make a Serious Comeback Amongst Environmentalists, Health Nuts, and Foodies; discovery.com

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"You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving." ~Author Unknown; (quotegarden.com)

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Oily Fish
Sardines are baby pilchards – long, thin, silver, oil-rich fish. (Oil-rich fish, or oily fish, are those that have oil distributed through their body)...
Read more: Sardine : Recipes and helpful tips; bbc.co.uk

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Bouillabaisse
Bouillabaisse, the one-pot fish stew from Southern France, has been cropping up on some of New York's finest menus...
Read more: Bouillabaisse Explained: Five Questions for Adam Gopnik; huffingtonpost.com

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Food Festivals
La Tomatina - What's rumored to have originated as a local brawl (possibly an attack on city council members by disgruntled townspeople) in Buñol, Spain...

Read more: World's Weirdest Food Festivals; foodandwine.com

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New Toques
Quebec's gastronomy has come a long way and it keeps reinventing itself, with the help of proud, creative and hard-working younger chefs...
Read more: Holy mackerel: This fish dish is smokin'; theglobeandmail.com

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Healthy and UnHealthy
~ There’s a wide variety of healthy seafood choices. Although many fish and shellfish are inherently high in cholesterol, eating seafood twice a week...
Read more: Healthiest Seafood; askmen.com
~ Seafood is often considered a healthy alternative to other forms of animal protein. However, due to deteriorating environmental conditions, some seafood is becoming unhealthy...
Read more: Five Unhealthiest Seafood; askmen.com

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Will Consumers Accept?
Keeping an eye on the FDA as the agency debates whether to approve genetically modified salmon for sale in the U.S...
Read more: If New Salmon Is Approved, Will Anyone Eat It?; cnbc.com

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Successful Enterprises
Tom Colicchio talks about what to avoid if you want to succeed as a restaurant owner...
Read more: How to Succeed as a Top Chef; newsweek.com

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Tastemakers
Best cookbooks - Joël Robuchon currently holds 25 Michelin stars, more than any other chef in the world...

Read more: The Complete Robuchon; guardian.co.uk

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Restaurant Interiors
Dining as art—designers create dazzling restaurant interiors and installations...
Read more: The World's Most Innovative Restaurant Interiors | Co.Design; fastcodesign.com

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From the Mixer
~ Genetically Modified Salmon - Frankenfish Health Effects; esquire.com
~ "Fish Dependence Day" Arrives a Month Earlier for European Union & Its Troubled Fish Stocks; treehugger.com
~ Europe's fishing industry 'unsustainable' as stocks drop; guardian.co.uk

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Spicy News : Chili, Tasty Pain

A Perk of Our Evolution ~
Pleasure in Pain of Chilies

"Turning homegrown habaneros into hot sauce is cause to celebrate the human capacity to enjoy such tasty pain"

Late summer is chili harvest time, the perfume of roasting chilies, the delightful, painful fruit of plants of the genus Capsicum being turned into salsa, hot sauce and...
Read more: A Perk of Our Evolution - Pleasure in Pain of Chilies; nytimes.com

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"The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had." ~Author Unknown (quotegarden.com)

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Lovely Intensity
Smoke likes spice. Spice likes smoke. They like being naughty and nice together...
Read more: Smoke Signals: The glory of Hatch chiles; washingtonpost.com

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Xingjian Province
Spicy, hearty and delicious, of all the cuisines of Asia, Uyghur food may be among the least known in the West...
Read more: Tired of Chinese, sushi and Thai? Try Uyghur; theglobeandmail.com

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Tastemakers
April Bloomfield taught us to eat everything. t’s four o’clock on a Thursday in the barroom of the Breslin, a grand meaty pub with animal heads and...

Read more: Of Pig Snouts and Headcheese; nymag.com

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Simple Little Trattoria
A non-celebrity chef's journey to open a new restaurant, after 17 years cooking professionally and 11 as a chef in New York City...
Read more: From Pigs to Pasta: Hopes and Fears of a New York Chef; theatlantic.com

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Poblano Chiles
a.k.a. ancho chiles (when dried), one of the most commonly used chiles in Central Mexican cooking...
Read more: Recipes using poblano chiles; finecooking.com

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Middle Eastern Purée
Breaking down the bean dip to its elements, you can create your own in any flavor and with any bean...
Read more: How to invent the next hummus; salon.com

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More on Rick Stein Cooks - BBC; youtube.com

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Apple Man
The "usual" time for the Golden Delicious is coming and going quickly. Don't postpone that picking trip...
Read more: Apples are in early: Time to pick, take a bite and cook; cleveland.com

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From the Mixer
~ Encyclopedia of spices; theepicentre.com

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Stylish Bites, Arcimboldo and a Life Without Gluten

Recapture the Essence ~
The Perfect Paella

"A food writer's quest to recapture her glorious past via a handful of rice, the recipe for the authentic paella"

There are few Spanish items one can't get in Los Angeles, there are great specialty shops where one can buy everything Iberian, but paella is a different story. The combination of textures, flavours, that add up to something special...

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The language of friendship is not words but meanings. ~Henry David Thoreau (quotegarden.com)

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Stylish Mouthfuls
Creating the most stylish mouthfuls of the season, and it isn't just a vol-au-vont...
Read more: Canape chic; nzherald.co.nz

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Tasty and Exotic Diet
Ever wonder what it would feel like to be a Greek god? Worshiped by women, adored by lower beings? Well...
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo
1526-1593: Nature and Fantasy” shows the artist as more than just an inspiration for the Surrealists...

Read more: Several Obsessions, United on the Canvas; nytimes.com

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Neuroscience...
Have you ever made a conscious decision to try to come to like a flavour you've always hated?...
Read more: Changing flavour behaviour; guardian.co.uk

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Simmering not Boiling
Chef Tamura’s nishime (simmered chicken and vegetables) is in the style of a classic Japanese meal...
Read more: Nishime (simmered chicken and vegetables); umamiinfo.com

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What is gluten?
Gluten is simply the protein part of wheat, rye, barley, and other related grains...
Read more: Simply Explained, Please!; glutenfreehelp.info

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Recipes for Kid
Start the school right by sending your gluten-free kids out the door with a healthy breakfast...
Read more: Kid Friendly Gluten Free Breakfast Recipes; about.com

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Cooking Lab
The food world eagerly awaits the former Microsoft technology officer's book on the science of cooking...

Read more: Nathan Myhrvold's "Modernist Cuisine"; latimes.com

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Celiac Disease
~ A pastry chef who can't eat flour? How's that for irony?...
Read more: A sweet job, with or without wheat; philly.com

~ Early diagnosis and careful diet can reduce symptoms...
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Making Love In The Kitchen ~
A Sea Salty Solution

"The salt from the sea - unprocessed, unbleached, rich in essential minerals - a healthy alternative to MSG"

Chatting about the danger-bayness of poisonous additives in our food, specifically, MSG. Why is that we love MSG so much?...
Read more: Making Love In The Kitchen: A Sea Salty Solution; nationalpost.com

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"Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all." ~Stanley Horowitz (quotegarden.com)

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Seasonal Pantry
~ Spices - Want to bring a taste of autumn to your table? Nothing says fall quite like allspice, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, and...
Read more: A taste of autumn spices; sheknows.com

~ Duck - No other bird boasts as much flavor and utility as duck. The breasts are delicious sautéed or roasted...
Read more: How to Choose the Right Duck for Cooking; saveur.com

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Apples
In season from late summer until the end of winter, of many different colours, shapes, textures and tastes, and a revival in heritage varieties mean there are more types available...
Read more: Apple : Recipes and helpful tips; bbc.co.uk

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~ Pears - We make a lot of fuss over heirloom peach varieties that date back to the 1960s and tomatoes that go back...
Read more: Bartlett pears: How to choose, store and prepare; latimes.com

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Fall for These Sides
Celebrate the new season with an assortment of fresh sides...
Read more: Quick and Easy Fall Sides : Recipes and Cooking; foodnetwork.com

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Fancy Farmers' Market
Sotheby's New York Auction House is holding an Art of Farming sale to support farmers' organizations in the New York state area...
Read more: Heritage Vegetables are So Trendy In New York That Sotheby's Is Now Auctioning Them; treehugger.com

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Edible Garden Exhibit
The New York Botanical Garden has long been an oasis of green in a sea of asphalt. Now it is also a smorgasbord...
Read more: A garden of healthy delights; boston.com

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Tastemakers
Mark Best and Peter Gilmore, Sydney's two most acclaimed chefs, could qualify as multistarred chefs in any number of cities, such as San Sebastian, San Francisco or Paris...
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Spring Feast
Time to cast off the shackles of winter and welcome the new season with fresh vibrant flavours...
Read more: Celebrate spring; taste.com.au

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Start-Up
Tell us about your breakfast habits and we'll serve up some healthy options that work for your lifestyle...
Read more: Breakfast Personality Quiz | Healthy Breakfasts; rd.com

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Sweets and Treats
No tricks here. Find sweet treats, fall menus, and kid-friendly snacks you can feel good about in this fun-filled recipe collection...
Read more: Healthy Halloween - Photos and Recipes; cookinglight.com

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From the Mixer
~ A Low-Carbon Four-Course Meal: Can It Be Done?; theatlantic.com
~ A Greener Cookout; wsj.com
~ Recipe: Wild Greens with Fried Eggs (Horta me Avga Tiganita); saveur.com

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Appetibilis, from the Blogosphere
~ 5 steps to a greener cup of coffee; eating-for-england.com
~ Palestinian "Maqluba"; julienjulia.blogspot.com
~ Wild Alaskan Pink Salmon Patties with Spicy Arugula Salad; motherrimmy.com
~ An exotic gazpacho – Scallops with lychee gazpacho; citronetvanille.com
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~ Sate Pentul - Indonesian Minced Beef Sate; indonesia-eats.blogspot.com
~ Cherry Berry Croissant Galette; cookingformark.wordpress.com
~ Eggplant Harissa Crumble Cake; chefwanabe.com

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