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Though I have yet to solve the code to finding the right partner, I have found many perfect marriages- of flavor. One of the things I enjoy most about cooking is putting complementary favors together so that each enhances the other. Flavor and spice combinations can be like a flag; tomato sauces taste Italian when […]

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It’s too hot to cook chicken soup today, but I feel lousy. After a weekend of fun, and riding the subways of NYC I guess I picked up some bug. It is a steamy day here, not really a day you’d want soup, but when I feel like this, pretty much the only thing I […]

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Cooking and teaching someone to cook are vastly different. Both take a certain amount of patience, but teaching requires a very different level of attention. When my daughter was eight I asked her if she wanted to start learning to cook. She was excited, we got a kids cookbook, and I let her choose what she […]

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For each of us, the way we offer it becomes our currency of love. All people express love in their own specific and sometimes quirky ways. Your beloved may show their love for you by washing and vacuuming your car every weekend, someone else may surprise you with small, sweet gifts, I once knew someone who showed […]

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