From Scratch

For Cleveland, OH chef Michael Symon, Super Bowl Sunday is a chance to cook up a storm at home, surrounded by friends. This year is no different, except now he has an aura of fame. He’s the Food Network’s newest Iron Chef and among his guests this year will be a former contestant from a […]

The first time I had turkey chili, back when the idea was a novelty, it was so bland it was almost tasteless. Turkey is hardly full of flavor. A friend who made turkey chili would try to compensate for that by loading up on the hot stuff, giving everyone at the table a runny nose and […]

Oh, I know. It sounds bizarre. So did Coca-Cola ham till I tried it.
This appeared in my Epicurious Healthy Dinners widget a few weeks ago. Braising is one of my favorite cooking methods, especially for economical cuts of beef, and running across nice chuck roasts on sale made this especially thrifty.
I don’t mind admitting I had my […]

Bravo has released information about the next season of Top Chef, which will debut March 12 at 10 PM Eastern.
This season was filmed in Chicago and only two of the 16 contestants are from that city. The others are from New York (7), San Francisco (4), Atlanta (2) and Los Angeles (1). Notably absent is […]

In what could be another slight to Hillary Clinton, the New York Daily News says Senator Ted Kennedy is expected to endorse Barack Obama today, one day after Caroline Kennedy’s endorsement and amid reports Bill Clinton tried to change the senator’s mind. [Update: He has endorsed Obama. Details here.]
The paper says Kennedy is set to […]

While I’ve been eating a lot of rabbit food, Mr. Knife Skills has been wondering when there might be something sweet in the house again, meaning something homemade and not the donuts he thinks I don’t know about. As much as I’d love cheesecake — any time — that’s just too fattening right now. I went […]

Two topics dominated this week’s political cartoons in the US: the death of actor Heath Ledger and the role Bill Clinton is playing in Hillary’s campaign. For the latter, let’s turn to one of the senator’s constituents in upstate New York, Adam Zyglis of the Buffalo News.

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Illinois Senator Barack Obama has won the Democrats’ South Carolina primary in near-landslide proportions, with more votes than Hillary Clinton and John Edwards combined.
With 97% of the precincts reporting, Obama has 55% of the vote. Clinton is a distant second with 27% and Edwards is third with 18% in a day that saw huge turnout.
Exit polling […]

I was attracted to this hearty stew the moment I saw the recipe, but it was 100 degrees (38C) when it was published last summer in a New York Times article about Senegalese food in Harlem. Now that it’s about 90 degrees colder, it was a perfect time to try it.
And I am bowled over […]

Stores these days are full of snacks and candy packaged in little 100-calorie portions. But what about 100 calories of real food? How much of a potato or yogurt is that? It’s one thing to say ‘this much’ or ‘that much’, it’s another to see it and, having seen it, probably easier to remember.
So let’s look. The […]

This is a make-life-simple recipe. It’s not haute cuisine by any means but it is comfort food with a twist or two.
The simplicity comes from its preparation in a microwave; the twists are a combination of spicy flavors more often associated with Tex-Mex and then making it into fast-cooking individual meatloaves.
It’s quick and easy as […]

Here’s an example why Hillary Clinton is a formidable candidate. During last night’s contentious Democratic debate, sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus Institute and CNN, she was asked by Corrrespondent Suzanne Malveaux about her husband’s increasingly vocal role in her campaign. Note how quickly and smoothly Clinton turned her reply into her “day one” campaign statement, […]

The notion that a contemporary woman must look mannish in order to be taken seriously as a seeker of power is frankly dismaying.
That’s from Vogue magazine’s February editor’s letter, in which editor Anna Wintour takes Hillary Clinton to task for cancelling a photo shoot. A Vogue spokesman confirmed to Women’s Wear Daily, “We were told […]

Uncle Sam needs a thesaurus. A few years ago, when pasteurized ground beef — safe even for those of us who like it medium rare — hit the supermarkets, almost nobody bought it because of its unfortunate name: irradiated. Consumers’ common sense went out the window amidst visions of burgers glowing in the dark.
Now the […]

These sex-changing crustaceans are also called native shrimp and they’re harvested from the cold waters of the Gulf of Maine. They’re considered to be a delicacy — some people eat them raw – and are only available for several weeks in the dead of winter.
Their official name is Pandalus borealis and they live their entire lives in the […]