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Category: Cook’s Edit

  • the comfort of food…

    Some of us eat to live. Others live to eat. I probably fall somewhere in the middle of that continuum. Influencing personal preferences are things like cultural and family rituals, environment and health. For most adults, it is one of the few things we can do in life that is totally up to us as to…

  • living dangerously…

    If ever you are feeling particularly murderous and audacious, but wanting to bake all at the same time, here is what you do. Take a perfectly nice recipe that calls for a cup of freshly squeezed orange juice. Substitute blood oranges (because that is what you have on hand) for the regular kind. Hand squeeze…

  • Cook’s Edit: Pasta and Beans with Kale

    Original recipe: Pasta e Fagioli with Escarole For most of this year I have been trying to imagine a ‘category’ in which to gather the occasional food posts I write. Recently, as I was making and photographing this delicious soup, and realising how many changes I had made to the original recipe, it suddenly occurred…