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Step Up to the Plate

By Emilia | Published: February 25, 2013

Video: Don't think it was nominated for an Oscar but check out this film about Chef Michele Bras, via YouTube.

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Steer Head, 2012

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: January 28, 2013

Say ahhhhhh. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman.

This is not a great photo, technically, but it's a favorite of 2012 for all that it represents. That's Billy Harris, apparently looking for tonsils to nibble on. Next to him is Paul Kahan, the Chicago chef, entrepreneur, badass cook, and purveyor of fine meats. At right is Jonathan Waxman, chef-owner of Barbuto in NYC and one of the godfathers of the new American cuisine. Bless them, they'd all come with many other colleagues to my town to benefit our amazing West Side Market and celebrate its hundredth birthday. The head, it will be no surprise to Cleveland food lovers, is courtesy of Jonathon Sawyer, chef-owner of The Greenhouse Tavern (he also just started an ancillary vinegar ...

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Epic Meal Time

By Emilia | Published: January 28, 2013

Video: watch the biggest fish and chips sandwich being made as Jamie Oliver is kidnapped, via EpicMealTime.com

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Friday Cocktail Hour: Pink Lady
(from a cool new digital book)

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: January 18, 2013

Ingredients for a Pink Lady; tap on each for helpful info/from 25 Classic Cocktails

I first read about a new self-published iBook, 25 Classic Cocktails, published to iTunes, when Tampa journalist Jeff Houck wrote about entrepreneurial food people turning to digital devices. Donna and I recently published The Book of Schmaltz to the iTunes app store, a short cookbook on making and cooking with rendered chicken fat, an underappreciated cooking technique. Meanwhile, ingenious folks in Tampa came together to publish a book whose title requires no explanation. But the book does warrant explanation. Each recipe, some common, some I hadn't heard of (one per screen), includes the recipe, a very brief history, one instructional video of the drink made and one quick montage video. At the bottom of the screen is a fat bar that, when tapped, ...

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Home Cooks’ Biggest Disadvantage

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: January 16, 2013

The single biggest problem in home kitchens. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman.

Dull knives. It's the single biggest problem in home kitchens. The. Single. Biggest. Problem. It's the main reason cooking seems more difficult than it should be. And I'll say this again, too. Guys and girls, the best Valentine's Day gift you can give your lover/cook, get his/her knives professionally sharpened or buy a good sharpener. Again: Nothing says "I love you" like a really sharp knife. I get mine—I use Wusthof, btw—professionally sharpened at a wet-grind sharpening place, and OpenSky found this astonishingly effective and easy-to-use sharpening "stone," called the DMT Sharpening Stone. (It's not really a stone, but rather a patented diamond-dust coated perforated steel sheet on rubber; see video below.) If you have to saw on a lemon rind to get the ...

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Step Up to the Plate

Steer Head, 2012

Epic Meal Time

Friday Cocktail Hour: Pink Lady
(from a cool new digital book)

Home Cooks’ Biggest Disadvantage

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