March 2014

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  • Nulli Secundus

    March 24, 2014 by 0 Comments

    Chocolate chip cookies, like fried chicken, are another of those foods that everyone makes, but are hard to make consistently well.  Even when I measure the flour by weight, I don’t think I’ve made the same cookie twice.  In 10 years of professional baking, during which time I baked the same recipe again and again, […]

  • Cabbage: The Other Red Meat

    March 17, 2014 by 0 Comments

    Cabbage is a modest vegetable with a long history of keeping people fed.  China, India and Russia are its top producers, though Russians are off the charts in their 44-pound per-person consumption of this vegetable.  (Americans consume only about 8-1/2 pounds per person.)  In the U.S. men apparently eat 25% more cabbage than women do, […]