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Nancy Silverton's recipe for sourdough bagels comes from her classic book, Breads From The La Brea Bakery. Food Guy and "Baking Wizard" Greg Patent…
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Emily Dickinson's Black CakeGreg Patent writes:The poet Emily Dickinson prided herself on her skill as a cook, and she was extremely proud of her black…
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Julia della Croce, who blogs authoritatively about Italian food, first tried the dense, sweet bisciola (pronounced "bee-shee-OH-la") in Italy's Valtellina…
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Food Guy Greg Patent writes:Once in a while a recipe catches on like wildfire and sends people straight to the kitchen. One such recipe is Plum Torte, a…
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“Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.”? Alice Walker.During the "peach time"…
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“You can cook a piece of chicken, but it will still be just a piece of chicken. I prefer the alchemy of baking.”“Alchemy?” I asked. “Isn’t that the…
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Spicy Apple TwistsThis recipe won the Grand Prize and $25,000 for Dorothy De Vault in 1958, at the 10th Pillsbury Bake-Off, the same Bake-Off that…
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In the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in 1958, 19-year-old Greg Patent was one of ten Junior contestants in the 10th Pillsbury Bake-Off.…
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Greg describes two baking workshops he attended recently, taught by pie baker Kate McDermott and pastry chef Mindy Segal. Greg learned that the fats he…
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Greg rolls out a list of his favorite half-dozen new and classic baking books:1. Rose Levy Beranbaum: "The Baking Bible"2. "Maida Heatter's Book of Great…