Christmas morning demands a special breakfast and these Christmas morning potatoes will delight everyone, including the cook, because you can get them ready a day or two ahead, and finish them off right before you want to eat them. These crispy nuggets of deliciousness are truly decadent, and though they’ll make your breakfast extra wonderful, […]

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This has been an unseasonably warm weekend in Philadelphia; Saturday was in the high 60s, and Sunday reached 70° making it difficult to think about things like Christmas shopping and roasting vegetables. I’m quite sure it will get cold again, though the long-range forecast shows temperatures in the 40s and 50s through Christmas, and when temperatures […]

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The gift of a chef’s coat is wonderful for many people. Last week we were cleaning out the offices at work, and having gone through a name change, the old chef’s coats are now obsolete, so I asked if I could take one for my daughter. When I gave it to her (before I even washed […]

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  • December 10, 2015 - 9:40 pm

    Phil - I also (as an accountant/consultant) have a nuanced relationship to work weeds. Sometimes you just have to don the uniform to be taken seriously, and let your skills cement the relationship.

    But I’ve been around for a few decades, and my client base has inexorably reduced (a culinary term?) to jeans and sweaters.ReplyCancel

Happy Hanukkah! Whether you’re celebrating or not, you’re going to love these latkes! There are as many opinions about what makes a good latke as there are about matzoh balls, but I have never met anyone who didn’t love them! Even if you won’t be celebrating, if you have never tried one, it’s time.  They […]

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  • December 9, 2015 - 7:02 am

    The Gift of a Chef’s Coat » Chefs Last Diet - […] The gift of a chef’s coat is wonderful for many people. Last week we were cleaning out the offices at work, and having gone through a name change, the old chef’s coats are now obsolete, so I asked if I could take one for my daughter. When I gave it to her (before I even washed it) she was ecstatic. She especially loved the cloth knot buttons; mine have more conventional plastic buttons. If I’d realized how excited she would be I might have saved it for a special occasion—like maybe Hanukkah. […]ReplyCancel

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