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More on cooking a turkey

Category: Cooking

Cooking turkey is actually kind of a dumb idea. Most people don't ever cook turkey. Turkey is like chicken ... it's a domestic bird that is familiar to all Americans ... but it is very difficult to cook in a way that does not ruin...

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Mrs. Charles Darwin's Recipe Book Revived

Did you get a gift card for a bookstore from Santa? Consider this new item (Thanks Virgil Samms for the tip!): Mrs. Charles Darwin's Recipe Book: Revived and Illustrated A cookbook based on notes by Charles Darwin's wife is to be published. Mrs Charles Darwin's...

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The Splendid Spice: You can have as much as you want cheap!

Category: Cooking

I like to cook, and I am good at it and know something about it. So I therefore am somewhat attracted to certain information streams including, for instance, Lynne Rossetto Kasper's "The Splendid Table" on National Public Radio. (Although this show comes out of the...

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How To Make Gravy

... a culinary repost. You've got your turkey all planned out, and you've got some stock. Now, it's time to explore the true meaning of Thanksgiving. Gravy. (And maybe something to put it on.) I will tell you how to make excellent gravy with no...

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Posted by Greg Laden at 6:00 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

A good way to cook a turkey

You have time but time can go by very quickly and suddenly Thanksgiving is upon you. This repost from one year ago may help you plan your turkey-day meal. My daughter, Julia, is named after two people. One of them is Julia Child. I happen...

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This video will make you hungry and possibly nostalgic

Category: Cooking

Hat Tip: Sorting Out Science...

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The Best and the Hottest

Category: Cooking

I believe that the hottest hot sauce you can get without a permit is Dave's Instant Insanity Sauce. It is also one of the best tasting. That is an unsolicited product endorsement. If you think differently, fine, but you have not tried it so...

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Crazy Anthropologist Links Food, Sex

Can you believe this guy? Check it out: The French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss once proposed that humanity began with cooking. [a Twin Cities anthropologist] says love may have begun with cooking, as well. ... The earliest human ancestors, some kind of chimp-like apes, were living...

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How To Make Gravy

Category: Cooking

You've got your turkey all planned out, and you've got some stock. Now, it's time to explore the true meaning of Thanksgiving. Gravy. (And maybe something to put it on.) I will tell you how to make excellent gravy with no stress and guaranteed success....

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Posted by Greg Laden at 8:30 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

Making Stock

Category: Cooking

I previously posted on a way to make a turkey that would leave you with the bulk of the bird's uncooked skeleton, and I promised some tips for how to make good stock....

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