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Filed under: Dinner, Poultry, Food Oddities, Food Quest, Roasting, America, Retro cookery, North America, Thanksgiving, FallA few days ago, I documented my first visit to a Pollo Vivero, or live-kill poultry place. Well, having now had the joy of dressing and eating a freshly-killed turkey, I can absolutely state the following points: Cutting ...

Filed under: Dinner, Vegetables, Poultry, Summer The other night, I found myself at my favorite Creole place and had one heck of a tasty crusted catfish with collard greens. (It was Southern Accent -- go if you're ever in Toronto!!) Even though I had it less than a week ago, I'm still dying for more. So, last night I whipped up a quick chicken ...

Filed under: Lunch, Dinner, East Coast, Poultry, Asia, Raves & Reviews, Comfort Food As far as I'm concerned, my home borough of Queens is the food capital of New York City, Manhattan be damned. Well, that's not entirely true, but with the exception of Japanese, Queens is the best place in the city to find authentic Asian cuisine ranging from ...

Filed under: Lunch, Dinner, Hors D'oeuvres, Snacks, Vegetables, Nuts/seeds, Beef, Poultry, Cheese, Recipes, Pork, How To, America, Comfort Food, Slow cooking, Meat, Vegetarian/Vegan, Super Bowl XLII Though there are a a lot of different things for Super Bowl parties, there are a few that will, without a doubt, make an appearance at every Super ...

Filed under: Lunch, Dinner, Grains, Vegetables, Dairy, Beef, Poultry, Cheese, Fruit, Pork, How To, Condiments, America, Spices, Meat, Super Bowl XLII ''I already ate dinner...Oh, BYOT? Did you say BYOT?!?! I'll be there in 10 minutes.'' Such was my end of the mobile conversation with my sister last night when she called me over to her place for ...

Filed under: Dinner, Vegetables, Poultry, Recipes, Magazines, On the BlogsI have been subscribing to Everyday Food, Martha Stewart's squat cooking magazine, since it's inception January 2003. I still have every single issue I've received (although right now I'm using issues 1-34 to hold up the corner of a wall-mounted cabinet in my living room ...

Filed under: Dinner, Poultry, America, Real KitchensI love This American Life. I love every trendy, emotionally orchestrated, hipster-ish moment of it. I try to catch it on Sunday mornings at 12 noon (that's when it plays on WHYY in Philly) but often times, I'm not at home when it's on the air. This last Sunday, I happened to be driving around ...

Filed under: Dinner, Poultry, Holidays, Thanksgiving I spent Thanksgiving day with a friend and her family out in the suburbs of Philly. My family chose, for some strange reason, to celebrate today, so I'll be heading out to a different suburb in just a little while for another round of turkey, stuffing and gravy. Yesterday, we cooked the ...

Filed under: Dinner, Poultry, Newspapers, How To I know that some of you have got your Thanksgiving menus all set by now, since the big day is only a week and a half away. But for those of you who are still looking for a little last-minute inspiration, I've got another good resource for you. The San Francisco Chronicle has pulled together all ...

Filed under: Dinner, Poultry, Recipes, How To, Spices The first year I brined my Thanksgiving turkey, it was something of a disaster. I didn't plan ahead well as to what I was going to brine my turkey in and so ended up using a tall, blue plastic garbage can that I had stashed away in my hall closet (I scrubbed it well before committing any ...