Pesticides are not on the USDA Food pyramid, so you shouldn’t be ingesting them on a regular basis. Unfortunately, despite your best efforts, you’re bound to be exposed to some unwanted chemicals. The Environmental Working Group, an advocacy group for organic food, did a study about the relative levels of pesticide
“An EWG simulation […]

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As you may know, in addition to loving food and cooking, I’m a real geek. I love obscure factoids and trivia, so naturally, one of my favorite podcasts is Mostly Trivial with Johnee Bee, and Johnee has featured me on his October 14th show, complete with all his usual funny production values. So head on […]

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Well, thanks to Ryan, an intrepid listener, I have been made aware that the marzipan babies are not marzipan at all. While I don’t like being one to spread misinformation, I’m glad that I was wrong here. As I said in the podcast, there’s something extremely disquieting about the notion of edible babies. […]

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With thanks to Paola e basta
Quatre chirurgiens discutent de leur profession dansune salle de repos à l’hopital.
Le premier chirurgien commence :
“J’aime avoir des comptables sur ma table d’opération.Lorsque vous les ouvrez, tout estnuméroté correctement à l’intérieur…” dit lepremier.
“Ouais, mais vous devriez voir les électriciens ! Toutest codé en couleur à l’intérieur,impossible de se tromper!” ajoute […]

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The good people of Inwoof, the Inwood Dog owner’s group, spent the day on Saturday making improvements to our Dog Run at the semi-annual It’s My Park cleanup day. We raked, cleaned, weeded, and planted bulbs for next Spring. We also hosted a bake sale to raise money for our general fund. This is the […]

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The rain finally stopped! Thankfully, I can stop building the Ark. Today was a beautiful day, and the farmers brought out more and more of their serious fall produce. Today was all about the colorful, harvest colors of orange, red, brown, and yellow.
This ornamental corn reminds me of New Mexico. We always had lots […]

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My latest article for Gastronomic Meditations is a Rumination on Roots. This month’s featured Main Ingredient is the humble root in all it’s forms, and in this piece I explore the varied uses of roots and rhizomes in other cultures throughout the world. In some cultures, roots are so highly prized, they form […]

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Episode #16:
Food News, listener e-mails, marzipan babies, a Yuzu recipe and “The Great Chile Relleno Casserole Recipe Mystery”
Featured Website: www.CookingDiva.net
Quick Tip: Keeping a box grater clean
Music: “Can’t Hold It Down”, Andy Sulivan. www.andysullivan.com Mambo MiamMiam”, Katy Stephan. www.katystephan.com
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What do you know about the common kitchen practices you use? Can you make yourself sick without even knowing it? This article from the Seattle Times may help you to find out how safe you’re being.
“Old habits die hard. That may be particularly true for kitchen routines. But could your typical food-handling habits […]

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A new study published in the Archives of Neurology finds that eating fish at least once a week can help reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s Disease.
“Study participants who consumed fish at least once per week had 60 percent less risk of Alzheimer’s compared with participants who rarely or never ate fish.
The researchers […]

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Here’s the round-up for SweetNick’s Weekend Dog Blogging Project, wherein food bloggers post clever photos of their dogs. Stiva’s in there, along with a bunch of other patient pooches.
Sweetnicks: Weekend Dog Blogging (WDB) #4

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After yesterday’s post about the beautiful broccoliflower and orange-hued cauliflower I bought at the farmer’s market, I got to thinking about other recipes for cauliflower, and remembered a recipe that was in heavy rotation the past couple of years, South Beach style Surprise Mashed “Potatoes”. Since the South Beach diet was one of the […]

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Well, I heard about this blogging event where food bloggers post pictures of their dogs, so I figured I’d join in. Not sure of the rules, but here are several pictures of my cutie-pie Stiva on a sleepy, rainy day. He sure loves to yawn!

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What a miserable rainy wet day! Not a very inviting prospect to go out to the Greenmarket. Well, I’m glad that I went out (besides, the dog needed to go do his thing), because I found these gorgeous hybrid Broccoliflower and colored Cauliflower.The Broccoliflower is a hybrid vegetable, a cross between broccoli and […]

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For my October contribution to Gastronomic Meditations,
I created a soup using turnips and dried apples, accompanied by Nutmeg Cheddar Breadsticks. It’s the perfect early Autumn comfort food.

Head on over to Gastronomic Meditations and get the recipes for yourself!
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Well, the mystery deepens. It appears that the problem is not with Libsyn, but rather that Cogent and Level 3, two major network services, are in some kind of battle, and have literally blocked each other’s hard wired networks. Here’s a link to an article that I quote below:
“Cogent Communications and Level 3, […]

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Episode #15: The Quick Tip Episode!
Lots of kitchen tips, plus some audio from my latest Cooking Demo, and listener e-mails.
Featured Website: www.TheFoodSection.com
Music: “Can’t Hold it Down”, by Andy Sullivan. www.andysullivan.com“Mambo miammiam”, by Katy Stephan. www.katystephan.com
Technorati Tags: food podcast, gastronomy, Kitchen tip, cooking,personal chef,chef

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I was planning on uploading a new podcast this afternoon, but my host, Liberated Syndication, is down, and I haven’t been able to log on all day. This also means that until it’s fixed, the player in the upper right hand corner of this page won’t function either. I apologize for the interruption […]

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I know this isn’t a food related post, but I had to trumpet the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, which is underway now. It’s the largest yearly festival for ballooning, and it’s also the most photographed event in the world.
My friend Carol Anderson, editor of Personal Chef magazine, has been blogging about her adventures in […]

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A few weeks ago, I posted about freezing pureed basil so that you could have plenty of pesto for the winter months. Well, Chef Vickie, over at The Moveable Feast Food Blog has documented how she does just this, with some great pics of how she freezes it in individual ice cube sizes. […]

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