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Filed under: Recipes, Pork, Food Oddities, America Turn off your spam-blockers and get ready for an avalanche of salty, eraser-colored porktastic goodness. The other day, I wrote about how Spam is ramping up production to meet recession-fueled demand. Some of you passionately defended the oft-ridiculed meat product; others requested Spam recipes. ...

Filed under: Dinner, Recipes, Italy, Meat Some of the most memorable and delicious dishes are the ones that revel in simplicity. As much as completion of a difficult culinary feat can be rewarding, there's nothing quite like the satisfaction of amazing flavor growing out of relaxing ease. This works two-fold for recipes that require minimal, ...

Filed under: Food Porn , Recipes, Food Oddities, Europe, MeatWhen I was a kid, a Hungarian restaurant opened in my neighborhood. As this was the seventies, and my family lived in the culinary wasteland of Northern Virginia, every new eatery was an occasion for celebration. Consequently, the mood was high as my parents took my sisters and I to ...

Speaking of meatless days (see prior post)... In the Family Meal Solutions section of our forums, one poster recently inquired: ''It seems like the prices of many foods, especially our favorite, meat, have skyrocketed lately. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can make good quality meals (with meat!) for less money?'' She got 14 ...

Filed under: Recipes, Newspapers, Middle East, Meat I've always loved the little Turkish lamb dumplings called manti, so I was psyched to see this New York Times story on how to make manti the easy way. Instead of hand-rolling and filling pasta dough, a delicate and time-consuming process, the author tosses sauteed lamb with pre-made bowtie pasta, ...

Filed under: Dinner, Beef, Recipes, Meat Calling all carnivores! When I tell you this is not just another steak recipe, you have to believe me. One sunny morning during the summer I was watching the Food Network and Tyler Florence was making his version of the ultimate steak. I was hooked the minute he covered the steaks with an egg white paste. ...

Filed under: East Coast, Recipes, Trends, Newspapers, Eggs, America, in sixty seconds, Meat, Food News Corporations push hybrid ''superfoods'' - Orange juice fortified with omega 3s from sardines, fiber-filled yogurt, etc. Trend: Dieters who stop dieting and start eating healthy food in a moderate and conscientious manner. Sarah Palin's ...

Filed under: Vegetables, Recipes, Magazines, Newspapers, Meat Check out this week's New York Times magazine, which features several recipes from Chez Panisse chef David Tanis's new cookbook. The book, ''A Platter of Figs and Other Recipes,'' embodies the Chez Panisse philosophy: ''simple cooking meant to illuminate nature's perfect simplicity.'' ...

Filed under: Beef, Poultry, Recipes, Pork, Barbecuing, Lists, Grilling, America, Meat, Holidays, Summer The Grand Rapids Press has a list of several dozen beef, chicken vegetable and fish tips for your Independence Day bash. Try wrapping fish in prosciutto or bacon to prevent drying. And cook snapper and other delicate fish in foil or on a plank ...

Filed under: Recipes, Grilling, Meat, Summer We're all fans of the easy summer barbecue: inviting a few friends over for an afternoon of hanging around the backyard, tossing some Hebrew Nationals on the Weber, spilling mustard on your shirt, falling asleep in the lounge chair and waking up redder than a gas station footlong. But sometimes you ...