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Yorkshire puddings are a food that we just don’t think of enough. This may not be 100% accurate, but it seems that most Americans who know (and therefore love) these puddings spent a lot of time in Great Britain or have close family there. And that just won’t do. So, we’re bringing you a discussion…
If there’s a more iconically American dish than a plate of hashbrowns, eggs, bacon, and sausage at a roadside diner, I’d like to know what it is. Yes, others may be as iconic—cheeseburgers and fries jump immediately to mind—but not more so than this humble-yet-noble breakfast of staples. Of course, the whole thing is cooked…
Let us say that it is winter. And let us also say that you want something, hearty, warm, and comforting to eat. Let us further suppose that you have little patience for any difficulty in the kitchen tonight but still want maximum tastiness. What is one to do in such a hypothetical situation? One is…
When the Bumpus hounds destroyed the Parker family’s Christmas turkey in A Christmas Story, the family did the only sensible thing they could: they went out for Chinese food. The relationship between Christmas dinner and Chinese foodgoes back much further than the 1950’s, and it has become, in its own way, a staple of American…
If you’ve ever had the delicious privilege of eating a properly-made Pizza Margherita or a garden-fresh Caprese salad, then you have known the joy that simple, fresh mozzarella cheese can bring. It’s really quite good. But, of course, it’s not readily available in every place. And if you are seriously into cooking and you made…
If there is a starch that rules the American table, it is the potato. They go with almost any main dish, and are the very picture of versatility—you can, as Master Samwise puts it, “boil ’em, mash ’em, stick ’em in a stew.” If you’ve followed this blog for long, you already know about our…
