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Grilled Marinated Chicken Breast and The Today Show

April 30, 2012
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(Grilled and Marinated Chicken) is a casual dish that solves the problem of dried out chicken. Marinating it with lemon starts the cooking process and actually reduces the time on the grill. The breasts come out succulent and flavorful, wonderful for all of us in the rest of the family who enjoy chicken.

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Beef Tenderloin on a Salt Block

March 14, 2012
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After only a few minutes we had the most delectable, mouth watering, perfectly seasoned meat.

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Easy Truffle Cheese Scrambled Eggs

February 27, 2012
Easy Scrambled Eggs with Truffle Cheese

We woke up late on a Sunday morning and didn’t have to rush anywhere. We were able to enjoy each other’s company like the old, still in love, married couple that we are. I made these Easy sottocenre eggs for Giuliano and he pronounced them delicious.

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Marcella responds to Modernist Cuisine and Marcus Aurelius

April 7, 2011

Why does Cooking need to be defended? Isn’t it only about food? It isn’t only about food the way love isn’t only about sex.

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Deconstructing the language of Food: Colman Andrew’s biography of Ferran Adria

November 11, 2010
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Cooking well is like the telling use of language: Expression must be vigorous, clear, concise. There can be no unnecessary ingredient or unnecessary step. A dish may be complex, but every component, every procedure, must count. …Do not arbitrarily shuffle the vocabulary of one cuisine with that of another to make your cooking (original). There is no more use for use for such a hybrid than there was for Esperanto.

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Too hot to handle: A review of CATCHING FIRE

October 2, 2009
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He takes on the trendy raw food community as well as the fast food chemically processed nation. He argues that eating calories that are too easy to digest is now a bigger problem for many than getting enough food. His is a clarion call to gain understanding of how food is actually processed in our systems.

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