Shrink in the Kitchen

Like most people, I wonder: Will Brad & Jen get back together?  But while we’re waiting–I mean, it’s not up to us, they need their time and space, it’s a big decision what with Angelina and the brood–what else is happening?
In NYC, we’ll see Jonathan Benno open his new restaurant.
Elsewhere, you can bank on ingredients [...]

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The decade 2000-2009?  It was about truffle butter and truffle oil.  Flavored experience, not the real thing.  War that was faraway, crises remote, until it all comes crashing down.

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Insofar as we’re at covert war with Yemen, don’t we need to know what stimulates the Yemeni palate?  Might their brew yield clues that will help us understand their psyche?  Perhaps.
One feature of Yemen is coffee, which is first-rate.  It is available from my favorite coffee shop on earth–http://www.portorico.com/store/index.html

MOCHA YEMEN SANANI

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When I first started writing about food 23 years ago, it was to create a life at home with my wife and our first child through cooking.  I figured flavors would be memorable.  That if I cooked, people would come to our house and stay awhile.  That, unlike moaning new parents I knew who swore [...]

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