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A Project To Rescue Pantry Puzzlers Before They Hit The Trash
April 11, 2013 Adventurous food shopping get you in trouble? Get help from creative cooks through the Cook Your Cupboard project.
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Earliest Cookware Was Used To Make Fish Soup
April 10, 2013 Humans were using cookware as early as 15,000 years ago, according to a new analysis of ancient Japanese ceramic pots. Those first meals? Fish soup.
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What To Do With All That Snow? Cook It
February 9, 2013 If your front yard is buried under drifts, treat yourself to some snow cuisine. It's like making lemons out of lemonade — just steer clear of any lemon-colored snow outside, please. Sugar on snow and snow cream are two sweet places to start.
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Stone Age Stew? Soup Making May Be Older Than We'd Thought
February 6, 2013 There's nothing better on a cold day than a warm bowl of soup. But when did our ancestors first brew up this tasty broth? New archaeological evidence suggests that soup making could be tens of thousands of years old.
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At Hanukkah, Pastry Reminds Portland Jews Of Their Mediterranean Roots
December 8, 2012 The cheese-and-spinach-filled food called a boyo was once served on the Shabbat tables of Jews who lived in the Ottoman Empire. Today, the Turkish-style pastries are mostly reserved for the holidays.
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Real Chefs Grind It With A Mortar And Pestle
November 25, 2012 With mixers, blenders and food processors found in most kitchens, the primitive mortar and pestle may seem out of place. But the Stone Age tool can't be beat when it comes to creating tasty salsas, pestos and curries, chefs say.
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Out Of The Binder, Into The Kitchen: Working Women And Cooking
October 18, 2012 Critics have pounced on Romney for boasting of making sure a female staffer got home by 5 p.m. to cook for her family. What about the men, they say? But the numbers don't lie: Working women are still doing the heavy lifting in the kitchen.
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Community Soup In Silver City, Nev.
August 22, 2012 Once a month Cashion Callaway makes a sit-down soup dinner for her community and teaches people about cooking and nutrition.
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From Weed To Whimsy: Chefs Conquer Wild Foods With Butter And Oil
May 8, 2012 A new generation of chefs committed to seasonal, wild and local foods may have no idea how or what they're going to cook until the last minute. And since they're charging big bucks, they better figure out how to make weeds taste good.
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Watch The Wire: How Your Grill Brush Could Make You Sick
March 30, 2012 Between May 2009 and November 2010, Rhode Island Hospital admitted six patients to its emergency room after they accidentally ingested small wire bristles from the metal brushes used to clean the grill.
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The Mad World Of 'Mad Men' Food
March 25, 2012 Prepare your aprons and your rye — Mad Men is back — and with it an unofficial cookbook inspired by the food of the popular AMC show set in the 1960's. The cookbook looks to the restaurants, bars and kitchens that serve as a backdrop to some of the series' most memorable moments.
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Cooking School Spreads Immigrants' Skills And Ethnic Recipes
March 24, 2012 Culture Kitchen, a San Francisco company, hires first-generation immigrants as cooking instructors. It tries to find talented cooks who wouldn't normally be teaching because of a language barrier or lack of formal training.
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Kitchen Calamity? Now You Can Tweet For Help
March 22, 2012 The Food52 Hotline, a new service on Twitter, promises 24-hour cooking advice, and it delivers. But don't expect an instant answer in the middle of the night.
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Bloggers Replace Mom's Recipe Box As Source Of Food Knowledge
March 2, 2012 A new study says social media having an increasingly bigger influence over our food habits: Half of consumers use social networking sites, such as Twitter and Facebook, to learn about food. Almost as many seek out recipes on blogs and websites.
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Reading, Writing And Roasting: Schools Bring Cooking Back Into The Classroom
November 9, 2011 Even as home economics classes have been phased out of a lot of schools in recent years, some schools are adding cooking classes back to the curriculum. A new study that evaluates a school cooking program says these hands-on classes do more than just prepare students to cook a decent meal.
