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Month: April 2019

Hot Stew & Cold Soup

Hot Stew & Cold Soup

Oftentimes, it’s better to let someone else do the talking about the food. In this case, it’s Anthony Bourdain and he’s talking about the virtues of vichyssoise. I asked our patient British waiter what this delightfully cool, tasty liquid was. “Vichyssoise,” came the reply, a word that to this day—even though it’s now a tired old warhorse of a menu selection and one I’ve prepared thousands of times—still has a magical ring to it. —Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential In fact, it…

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Snow Days & Charades

Snow Days & Charades

     The first time I ever watched Charade, it was during a typhoon day in the Philippines. We were in the basement of the Baucks’ house, the place where we watched so many formative movies—Legally Blonde, all of the Star Wars movies, most likely You’ve Got Mail, anything else?—while we had the day off from school. Charade was scary enough for me as an 11-year old that all of the dead bodies they portrayed gave me a true fright,…

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