Extreme Cuisine

Posted on October 24, 2009 by Eran

Exotic food and even more exotic language barriers.

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CPR for 2-week old eggplants

Posted on October 20, 2009 by Yael

If you like cooking as I do, there’s really nothing better than making something up from ingredients you randomly happen to have at home and have it turn out really great, just as Adam Roberts did with his yummy creamed mushrooms on toast recipe. Earlier this week I discovered some 2-week old eggplants in my [...]

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The Nourishing Kitchen of NYC

Posted on October 19, 2009 by Swaroop

http://www.foodmayhem.com/2009/10/the-nourishing-kitchen-of-nyc.html
What a great concept – a community soup kitchen that holds cooking classes for people in need – teaching folks how to prepare delicious, healthy meals on a shoestring budget.  The prevalence of obesity among the disadvantaged may seem a bit perplexing at first- if you don’t have enough money, how do you get overweight?
But [...]

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A splash of authenticity on my salad: pumpkinseed oil from Salzburg

Posted on October 6, 2009 by Swaroop

In this age of Wal-Mart, strip malls and Big Macs, there’s real value in knowing the story behind the products you buy and who makes them.  How was the product idea born?  How it was it made?  Authenticity is more important than ever, especially when it comes to our food
A couple of years ago I [...]

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