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One year ago today I sat down and composed my first blog post for The Chef’s Last Diet. I have always dreamed of writing, and suddenly I had the time and the motivation to get started. I had just read Gary Vernaychuk’s book Crush It, on the recommendation of a friend, and then had a […]

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  We all make cooking mistakes, and if you learned to cook at home (which is where most people learn) it’s likely you learned to do things the way your mom (if that’s who taught you) did them, and she the way her mother and grandmother did… If you were fortunate to be from a […]

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When you’re cooking one of the things you should be paying attention to, but may not be, are the bubbles. When I learned to make scrambled eggs, and I mean as a kid, not when I was in culinary school, where making scrambled eggs is a whole other thing, but when my dad was showing […]

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When kids (or adults) are eating something for the first time ‘what does it taste like?’ is the inevitable question, and ‘Tastes like chicken’  often the response .  A few years ago I read a humorous article in which the author said when he used that response with his daughter, she asked ‘So what does […]

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We are constantly bombarded with choices, so many that at times it seems what we choose hardly matters, but that’s not true, it has become more and more important to make good choices. We make choices when we turn on the box that delivers our television viewing, when we go online to shop, and every […]

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