May 2012
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Healthy Strawberry, Date & Cocoa Smoothie
1 cup strawberries, cleaned and hulled
1/4 cup pitted dates
2-3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 cup nonfat plain or vanilla frozen yogurt
1/2 cup - 3/4 cup milk, soymilk, rice milk or almond milk
Toss everything into a blender, starting with 1/2 cup of milk. Blend together, 30-60 seconds. Taste and adjust: thin it with more milk; make it sweeter with more...
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WatchNBC New York did an amazing profile on our dear friend and frequent collaborator, Chef Brendan McDermott.
Want to see Brendan’s knife skills in action? Here Brendan will teach you how to break down a chicken.
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Rejected Cookbook Text
Just got the first edit of the Working Class Foodies cookbook manuscript from my editor. Her edits are full of great advice and savvy cuts. There are a few things I wrote that don’t need to be in the book, but that I think are good advice (or whatever?) anyway. This is one:
Remember, all that matters is that you think the dish tastes good. This book starts out as mine, but I want you to...
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Shake Shack > In & Out
This is true on all fronts except for server friendliness, where In&Out takes the cake (burger? LOLOL).
But it’s especially true on vegetarian options. Shake Shack’s cheese-filled portobello mushroom is roughly 1MM times better than In&Out’s ‘grilled cheese’ (spoiler: 2 slices of American on a hamburger bun with frizzy iceberg and tomato), Animal Style or...
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Julia Child Is on The iPad. Thomas Keller Isn't.
baddeal:
We need digital versions of these cookbooks:
Modernist Cuisine: 51.3 lbs
The French Laundry (Keller):5 lbs
Under Pressure (Keller): 4.4 lbs
Ad Hoc (Keller): 5.4 lbs
Bouchon (Keller): 5.3 lbs
Alinea: 6.6 lbs
Noma: 4.8 lbs
On The Line (Ripert):2.6 lbs
Fat Duck Cookbook: 5.6 lbs
Mugaritz: A Natural Science of Cooking: 2.2 lbs
El Bulli 1994-1997: 8.8 lbs
El Bulli...
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