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Thanksgiving doesn’t have a special song, like Jingle Bells or Easter Parade. But all around the country, home cooks are singing the same tune and it’s a lament: “I spent two days slaving in the kitchen, and the meal is over in less than an hour!”
Here’s [...]
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I first made this gorgeous recipe in 1990, when it appeared on the cover of Gourmet magazine, prettily edged with a ring of pecans. I guess I wasn’t the only one who swooned over this seductive cheesecake; Gourmet ran it again in 2003.
If you’re looking for a change of pace [...]
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I just returned from Italy, where I was eating out three meals a day for five weeks straight. (And eating exceedingly well, I might add. Ours are gourmet tours, after all.) Now my pants are telling me that I should shed a few pounds. Which is why I made a big pot of lentils this [...]
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“What would you serve with this?” one member kept asking at the Vermentino tasting I recently organized for my wine club.
Fish is the quick answer. But in reality, Vermentino accompanies every course in Liguria. It’s perfect with freshly baked foccaccia scented with rosemary and glistening with fruity olive [...]
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A Q&A WITH RAFFAELE BOSCAINI
For Amarone lovers, Masi is a household name. One of the oldest wineries in Valpolicella, it was founded in 1772 by the Boscaini family when they purchased a plot of land called Vaio di Masi, or Little Valley of Masi, from which the company takes its name.
Since [...]
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Since Roman times, a heavenly dessert wine has been made in the Veneto from grapes laid on bamboo mats to dry throughout the winter. The concentrated red nectar squeezed from these raisinified grapes is called Recioto della Valpolicella—the historic precursor to Amarone, one of the most seductive, hedonistic wines [...]
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When people ask what I do for a living, it’s always the same: “I run wine tours in Italy, Spain, and Portugal,” I say, trying to look nonchalant. Then I get The Look (wide-eyed, incredulous) and a long, drawn-out “Wow!”
Sure, running around the vineyards of Europe is great. But like [...]
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Yesterday on my walk in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, I spotted two hopeful signs of spring: purple crocuses and a robin. I nearly swept them up in my arms, so welcome were these harbingers of warm weather, especially after the dour, unrelenting winter of snow we suffered this year.
These merry messengers [...]
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The other night, the neighbors upstairs in our Brooklyn brownstone invited us over for dinner. After a hearty winter stew, they brought out these decadent brownies. What a show-stopper! It turns out they were the cover story in February’s Bon Appetit. The cover line said “Best Ever Brownies.” And boy, were [...]
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My friend Beth Kracklauer is an editor at Saveur, my hands-down favorite cooking magazine. For an article on nutmeg, she managed to snag this recipe from Al di La, my hands-down favorite Italian restaurant in Brooklyn. I made this as part of my New Year’s Eve dinner feast [...]
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This comes from a long-ago issue of Gourmet (RIP), and it remains one of my favorite biscotti recipes. Simple, easy, and festive!
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