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Don’t try this at home, or How to Avoid Turkey Shpilkes

Deep-fried turkey. Remember Chernobyl? This is the first time in the last ten or so years that I won’t be spending the early part of Thanksgiving day on the phone, in a live radio broadcast where I answer last-minute, rapid-fire holiday cooking questions for regional NPR listeners far and wide. Last year, Susan and I […]

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When Family Tradition Needs to Step Aside

It’s a universal truth: At best, the act of cooking the foods of our forefathers and mothers is a delicious way to remain connected to our past, and to all that is good, right, and domestically romantic in our lives. At worst, it can result in a closed mind, a misguided palate, and the sort […]

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