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Preserved Meyer lemons

March 31, 2009

I’m in the midst of moving, so the world has been a labyrinth of cardboard this week. Sadly, I discovered that I’d packed my salt before I’d had my last dinner.  And I mean, ALL of my salt: Maldon, sea, kosher, Hawaiian, Morton’s, whatever. I had not, however, packed my jar of preserved Meyer [...]

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My favorite pan

March 27, 2009

I had a wok in college, one of those big ones that sat on a separate base and was impossibly round; it was like trying to stir-fry with a bowl. Okay, maybe I just didn’t get the technique down, but still.  Not fun.  So a few years ago Vicki Fan (of Beacon in Culver City) [...]

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Wilted dandelion green salad

March 25, 2009

My kids think it’s hysterical that people eat dandelion greens.  They don’t really like them, as they find the greens a bit bitter.  But the girls just love it when grown-ups eat them.  You’re eating weeds, points out one or the other.  Yes.  But one person’s weed is another person’s dinner.  And they’re quite pretty, [...]

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Blueberry corncakes

March 25, 2009

Finally, blueberries.  I went to college in Maine, so I was a bit suspect of blueberries after I moved to California.  But then I discovered Santa Barbara berries one spring at the Santa Monica farmers market.   They don’t have the same exact flavor, but they’re equally good.  Corncakes are sturdier than pancakes made with just [...]

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Apple galette

March 23, 2009

I grew up at a boarding school with a working apple farm, so we ate a lot of apples. Picked them off trees, pressed cider as a class project, grabbed them from wooden crates that looked rather like these on our way to and from classes.  After I wrote a story about Southern California U-pick [...]

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Edible gardens

March 22, 2009

How to get kids to eat healthy foods?  Open the doors.  Instead of bribing kids or hiding vegetables in their chocolate pudding or blueberries in their hamburgers, get them into a garden.  For starters, bribing is an ethically questionably activity.  (Chores, sure; homework, maybe; food, no.) Then there’s the problematic fact that my kids can [...]

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Sourdough baguettes

March 21, 2009

One of my very favorite LAT stories was one I did on sourdough.  Right before I wrote the story, I had about 18 different starters bubbling away on my kitchen counters.  Baker and cookbook writer Peter Reinhart, who was enormous help to me during the research (he came to town and we had lunch at [...]

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The Secresy of Animals

March 21, 2009

THE SECRESY OF ANIMALS
1.
When I opened the door to the world
I could see lights.  I could hear trains and
Men shouting over loudspeakers.
I could smell the sulfur of an inch of
Rain.  Gasoline.  Down the street
From where I live, police cars
Drop the heroin addicts at the abandoned bus station
[...]

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