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Working class cats

Friday, January 11th, 2008

Even before the New York Times published an article about New York City’s bodega cats, I have been in love with them. Lucia and I once saved a deli cat on Hudson Street from choking on sausage casing (by “saved” I mean that we chanted “Save the cat! Save the cat!” until a passerby actually stopped to [...]

Cooking scales of justice?

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

  Deceptive, sneaky; tomato, to-mah-to? According to an AP article, things are coming to a head between Jessica Seinfeld (she of Deceptively Delicious) and Missy Chase Lapine (she of The Sneaky Chef), with a law suit. Lapine claims that Jessica Seinfeld plagiarized her ideas, and that Seinfeld’s husband, Jerry, slandered her on the “Late Show with [...]

Hot to trot

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

There’s a fascinating article about heat in today’s NYT food section: The Invisible Ingredient in Every Kitchen by that wizard of kitchen science Harold McGee. Have you ever thought about the astounding, transformative properties of heat? Sometimes it amazes me that heat can turn a liquid into a solid, like batter into cake. Or, the way [...]

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