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Taking High-Heat Tandoor Techniques To The Backyard Grill

Punjabi Lamb Kebabs, like many tandoor dishes, can also be made on gas or charcoal grills. Christopher Hirsheimer hide caption

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Taking High-Heat Tandoor Techniques To The Backyard Grill

It's not easy to set up a tandoor oven in the backyard. But chef and writer Madhur Jaffrey says cooking at high heat does something magical to meat, which makes it worthwhile to adapt her tandoor recipes for gas or charcoal grills.

Taking High-Heat Tandoor Techniques To The Backyard Grill

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The Sprouted Kitchen

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Best Books Of 2012

Recipe Rebellion: A Year Of Contrarian Cookbooks

The rebels, rule breakers and renegades who rule this year's Top 10 list aren't looking for a Ph.D. in Traditional Cooking. They're pleasure seekers whose books are filled with quirky facts, gorgeous pictures and ingredients deployed in unexpected places.

Recipe Rebellion: A Year Of Contrarian Cookbooks

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The Long View: Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Kitchen

Madhur Jaffrey is a noted chef and expert in Indian cuisine. She is the author of several cookbooks and one memoir, Climbing the Mango Trees. Lisa Levart hide caption

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The Long View: Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Kitchen

Beloved chef Madhur Jaffrey prepared for a life on stage and screen as an actress — but her longing for the food of her childhood led her to her other career. She looks back on her days in film and in the kitchen with NPR's Renee Montagne.

The Long View: Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Kitchen

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Take a Fresh Look at a Clever Little Vegetable

Cross an artichoke with celery, and you come close to getting a cardoon. For our food moment this week, food writer Peggy Knickerbocker talks about cardoons — a wonderfully weird vegetable with mediterranean "roots." Knickerbocker is the co-author of The San Francisco Ferry Plaza Farmer's Market Cookbook.

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Dive into a Sea of Good Summer Food

Summer is the time to eat. There's no better opportunity to make the most of what the season — and your local farmer's stand — have to offer. Cookbooks can help. Food writer Bonny Wolf rounds up 10 to take you through the season.

Dive into a Sea of Good Summer Food

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Fine Southern Food from a Native Son

In a colorful new cookbook, Alabama chef Frank Stitt shares moutwatering recipes from his award-winning restaurant Highlands Bar and Grill. He talks with NPR's Debbie Elliot about the tradition of food in the South.

Fine Southern Food from a Native Son

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'Lidia's Family Table': Italian Food at its Best

NPR's Karen Grigsby Bates cooks pasta with Italian chef Lidia Bastianich — best known for her PBS television series, and touted as the next Julia Child — and talk about her new cookbook highlighting her traditional family style methods of home cooking.

'Lidia's Family Table': Italian Food at its Best

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