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People tend to worry about food poisoning during the summer months, when eating outdoors exposes food to greater bacterial growth from the heat. But you can get food poisoning year round, including in your own kitchen. The Partnership for Food Safety Education helps consumers get the facts, deflating common myths about cross-contamination and the growth…
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Once upon a time there was a magical restaurant in Wheeling, Illinois, Le Français, the creation of chef-owner Jean Banchet. There, among other glories, we were first introduced to the “trio” approach he brought from his classic French training: Whatever protein you hungered for—beef, duck, seafood, veal—would be served in three different preparations on one…
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Some 50 years ago, the debut of the first spray cooking oil, PAM, was a game changer for many cooks. But over the years, the joy of convenience and calorie savings gave way to wariness of the chemical propellants—petroleum, propane and isobutene—said to be 11% of the contents in the aerosol spray can. Today’s tip…
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Burgers are the number one item grilled– although few are quadruple burgers, like this one. Photo courtesy Grilling.com. Labor Day, just around the corner, is the third most popular grilling holiday of the year. According to the Hearth, Patio & Barbecue Association’s most recent State of the Barbecue Industry Report: 51% of grill owners…
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A tip just heard on the Today Show: A Cook’s Illustrated taste test on cooking frozen versus thawed steaks. Conventional wisdom is that frozen meat should be thawed before cooking. But when testing frozen versus thawed strip steaks on the grill, the Cook’s Illustrated test showed that, while they took longer to cook, the frozen…
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