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Essential Kitchen Skills

Some tasks should never be done in the home kitchen. This is a list of the opposite, things you should try. Some things, you’ll just never make as well as the masters can, whether because you can’t get your stove hot enough (for stir-fries in a wok), you lack the temperature control (to deep fry [...]

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Eat the States: 5(ish) to try in San Francisco

Canada has great food. Many Americans might claim that y’all live in igloos and only eat doughnuts and beaver meat, but I know the truth. Vancouver and Toronto both house some of the best ethnic foods found on the continent and I’ve eaten Mexican food in Victoria that’ll beat the pants off anything straight south [...]

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Locanda Verde Cheese

My 10 best bites of 2010

I live for lists, end of year round ups, rankings and orders. I crave them like I crave the best soup dumpling in North America–which, incidentally is on this list I’m about to give you! Last year on my personal blog I did my 6 Favorite dishes in Seattle, but this year, I thought I’d [...]

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Eat the States: 5 reasonable restaurants to try in Las Vegas

Eat the States: 5 reasonable restaurants to try in Las Vegas

Canada has great food. Many Americans might claim that y’all live in igloos and only eat doughnuts and beaver meat, but I know the truth. Vancouver and Toronto both house some of the best ethnic foods found on the continent and I’ve eaten Mexican food in Victoria that’ll beat the pants off anything straight south [...]

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Eat the States: 5 to try in Seattle

Canada has great food. Many Americans might claim that y’all live in igloos and only eat doughnuts and beaver meat, but I know the truth. Vancouver and Toronto both house some of the best ethnic foods found on the continent and I’ve eaten Mexican food in Victoria that’ll beat the pants off anything straight south [...]

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Dirty Dishes in Sink

Lie Detector: I don’t have time to cook

“If you don’t have time to do the dishes, you don’t have time to cook” When I shared a kitchen with seven others in University, a sign to this effect decorated our tiny abode. The thought that somebody would actually be to busy to cook wasn’t the point, but merely eliminating another excuse. Yet, to [...]

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