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Maryland crab cakes plated and ready to eat

Bonus Recipe: In Celebration of Our Blue Crab

A personal ode to Chesapeake Bay blue crab, plus a winning recipe for Maryland crab cakes with quick tartar sauce...

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Juicy Post: Risotto Alla Milanese

It's All In The Name Some years ago, I ordered Risotto Alla Milanese in a highly regarded and somewhat snooty...

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Ingredients: These Old Bones

Nose To Tail Fergus Henderson has many wonderful quotes. My favorite is his query about why couples shopped for a...

Bonus Recipe: Duck Breast in Pink Peppercorn Sauce

  The Other Red Meat Last month I wrote about one of my pet peeves, β€” the marketing and reengineering...

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Ingredients: Florence Knows Pork

One Cannot Live By Art Alone  I have made some notes  from Liz DiGregorio's two intriguing posts about visiting Florence,...

Celebrations: Beef, Salt & Robuchon

A Red Valentine In our home, Valentine's Day meals have played an important role in a certain member of this...

Recipe: Boeuf Bourguignon

The Beef About Boeuf Boeuf Bourguignon. Boeuf a la Bourguignonne. It’s surprising how much loose talk and free-form spelling there...

Travel Alert: The Mary Rose & Dover Sole

Saved By Silt In the Before Times, on a visit to our UK Insider, we took a trip to the...

KD version of Jeanette Seaver's plum clafoutis

Recipe: Plum Clafoutis

The Quest Both Nils Bertrand and I share this memory of having tasted or made a clafoutis once in our lives that...

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Bonus Recipe: Lobster Roll

Never Too Late I was introduced to various lobster roll recipes late in my life when my sister-in-law settled in...