When The Silver Spoon's English translation first hit bookshops in 2005, I leafed through it and thought that it was perhaps the most tedious and uninspiring cookbook on the market. I couldn't understand how this could be a classic....
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I can see why Mario Batali refers to polenta pasticciata as 'messy polenta.' It was a real challenge--almost like a reverse game of Jenga--getting it out of the dish in any less than three completely unphotgenic blobs, despite my...
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Hay Hay, it's Donna Day! For ages now I've been stumbling across HHDD themes the day that entries close or just after. In December I decided to take charge of the situation and make a proper effort to keep...
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Lucas had a little friend (T) over to play on Monday so I thought I'd do a little bit of baking for us all. I've been eyeing the cookie chapter in Dolce Italiano since it arrived, so I felt...
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Recently Antonio Carluccio presented a one-off documentary-slash-pilgrimage, following in the footsteps of Bartolomeo Scappi. If you're saying, "Who?" then you're not alone. I'd never heard of him either, but the trailers billed him as the world's first celebrity chef,...
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The turn of the year always brings with it a host of good intentions and the now-ubiquitous New Year resolutions, the majority of which fall by the wayside by... oh, about now, usually. This year I've decided to be...
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