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Posted in Recipe on Mar 9th, 2010
I love cookbooks. I collect cookbooks. Sometimes, I read cookbooks in bed before going to sleep. I have been gratified in recent months to realize that a number of people also treat cookbooks as literature, but then I had this realization: I was only using them as literature. Somehow, despite having already accrued 34 cookbooks [...]
Posted in Cheap, Quick, Recipe, Vegetarian on Feb 28th, 2010
Here at Food Junta, we mention the Minimalist a fair amount. But in all my minimalist reading, I don’t think I’ve ever seen MBittz wax quite as poetic as he did over this ginger fried rice, adapted from his friend and cookbook collaborator (and majorly fancy pants chef) Jean-Georges Vongerichten. Rarely do I read a [...]
Posted in Breakfast, Recipe, Tips, Vegetarian on Sep 8th, 2009
(Welcome to Breakfast Briefs. If you’re like me, you find yourself rushing out the door hungry and undercaffeinated many a morning, the inevitable result of which is $6 spent on a bad egg sandwich and coffee fit only for war criminals. In these posts, I’m going to share my tips and tricks for getting to [...]
Posted in Recipe, Vegetarian on Nov 14th, 2008
One of the inconveniences of life in my first apartment has been making do without the arsenal of gadgets in my mother’s kitchen. I felt most deprived in my first few weeks here, when my stuff was in transit and I was reduced to preparing gruel-like dishes with a camping cookset — a subject for [...]