Last month, I was carrying on about cookbooks and specifically about a round up of 25 Beautiful Old Cookbooks on Abebooks and for a while I was all about cookbooks “of a certain age” (and subsequently spent some considerable time looking at vintage community cookbooks – community cookbooks being among some of my favorites since [...]

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As the indomitable Martha Stewart once declaimed, “There are no problems, just opportunities for excellence!” Now I have of late been in somewhat penurious circumstances, and must admit that I did, in fact, consider that a large problem indeed. Then it finally occurred to me that now would be the perfect time to shed that [...]

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I have been told that I make a damned good cup of coffee. I attribute this less to an actual skill (the coffee maker does most of the work) and more to the coffee I buy (Sinful Delight from Fresh Direct – which may or may not be the same as Sinful Delight from Irving [...]

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Things are going greener. By which, I do not mean painting the kitchen green. You may of course choose to do that. It isn’t a color I would necessarily pick but to each their decorative own. No, I mean embracing the ‘eco’ of it all. This doesn’t mean you have to replace all your working [...]

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In view of the holiday season heading toward us at lightening speed – I present Casual Kitchen’s Seven Ways to Get Faster at Cooking and Apartment Therapy’s sequel Seven More Ways to Cook Faster. Of course, the fastest way to cook is to have someone else do it – which is my method at this [...]

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