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Last week I talked about rediscovering an old copy of the Settlement Cookbook that has been in my possession for many years. My copy is from 1931, the original having been published in 1901. The book was compiled and published by Elizabeth Kander. My copy is in very bad shape, the pages have separated from […]

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Gastronomy 101 was the first class I encountered when I got to culinary school. We started out in the classroom, much to the dismay of many of my classmates who were impatient young men right out of high school, and eager to start cooking. We had a full six weeks of classes ranging in topics […]

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Since starting this blog I am spending more time than ever on the internet, and it is filled with so many different types of temptation. I am reading a lot more blogs, doing research, looking at recipes and generally over stimulating my already busy brain. One of the many side effects of all this visual […]

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I look back on my Diner daze days with some degree of disbelief. Diners are an integral part of the American landscape, as well as the American experience. Diners in their various forms have waxed and waned in their popularity over the past hundred plus years and I, like many others was swept up in […]

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I’m over bacon! I I love it as much as anyone, but I am getting tired of it. It is everywhere, it is in everything, and as much as I love it, I don’t want to eat it all the time! You may not agree, but I think bacon is the new black, it has […]

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