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Given the attention our recent Greek salad recipe got on Twitter, we’ve decided to follow up with an antipasto salad. You don’t see these on menus too often, because it’s not an authentic Italian dish. It takes traditional antipasto ingredients and layers them atop romaine: an Italian “chef salad.” It’s a hearty lunch or dinner…
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Apple cider vinegar is a versatile favorite. Photo courtesy Heinz. Vinegar begins life as alcohol. Through fermentation, alcohol is converted to full-strength vinegar, which is then diluted with water to achieve a 5% acidity level for cooking and table use. (Here’s the history of vinegar and how it is made.) How many different types…
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Many of the greens we enjoy today began life as weeds. They showed up, uninvited, in gardens and fields. Given the scarcity of food, they were gathered and brought to the kitchen. While some of these intruders were distasteful (or even poisonous), others were welcome, including dandelion greens and mache (lamb’s quarters), which has become…
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Here’s a new approach to “soup and salad”: a chilled soup with a salad garnish. We were inspired by this concept from Chef Scott Conant of Scarpetta restaurants in Beverly Hills, Las Vegas, Miami and New York City. The idea is to create a substantial garnish that contributes eye appeal and compatible flavors to the…
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[1] Chocolate peanut butter cheesecake: A small slice satisfies (photos #1 and #4 © Philadelphia Cream Cheese). The history of cream cheese is below. > Here’s a second Chocolate Peanut Butter Cheesecake recipe. > The history of chocolate. > The history of peanut butter. > The history of cheesecake. > The history of the peanut…
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