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I can’t believe this is my first post about dim sum! I have loved dim sum for almost the entire span of my life. When I was in college at NYU my friends and I frequented New York’s nearby Chinatown; my friend Alice and I had lunch at Sam Wo’s every Friday. Once I moved […]

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I don’t know the last time I fried up some bacon in a pan, splattering my kitchen with grease, standing over it, watching the bacon curl and twist… ugh, so much trouble.  It’s not that I don’t make bacon anymore, I just don’t make it in a pan.  My mom used one of those microwave […]

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  Who doesn’t want to shop like a chef? Have you ever seen a chef shopping?  If you do, follow them around and watch what they buy.  What chefs and professional cooks prepare at home isn’t the sort of fare you get a restaurants.  Most professionals make simple, well prepared food. They use good ingredients, […]

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“Would you like a homemade waffle? ”  This is what I was asked every other morning at the Inn where I spent the last week of my vacation.  Hmmm, homemade?   Well within seconds—and I mean seconds, a steaming, perfect waffle would appear!  Maybe they meant ‘freshly made?’   It turned out that they were […]

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Smorgasburg is held every Saturday in Williamsburg Brooklyn. I have been wanting to go ever since I first heard about it, and this weekend I finally did, and wasn’t disappointed! I picked up my friend Corrine Saturday morning,and off we went. Traffic was light, parking was easy (and free) and the the weather perfect. But […]

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